I am Assistant Professor of Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies at the University of Oregon. My interdisciplinary research has focused especially on Africa-Europe mobilities and questions of asylum, migrant reception, human rights, and racial justice in the Italian context. This work bridges critical refugee studies, transnational Italian studies, and postcolonial studies, through methods including media, narrative, and discourse analysis, and oral history and ethnography. My book, Emergency...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4401 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7384-1906 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorpaynter/ | |
| https://twitter.com/@ebpaynter | |
| Research Gate | https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520402904/emergency-in-transit |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Gender relations
- Labour markets and employment
- Climate change and environmental conditions
- Conflict, war and violence
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Cultural norms and ties
- Globalisation and (post)colonialism
- Transnational ties
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Oregon
University, Eugene, United States
Assistant Professor -
Brown University
University, Providence, United States
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow -
Cornell University
University, ITHACA, United States
Postdoctoral Fellow in Migrations -
Ohio State University
University, Columbus, United States
Presidential Fellow and PhD Candidate -
Cornell University
University, Ithaca, United States
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University of Oregon
University, Eugene, United States
Assistant Professor of Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies
Research
Gendered Asylum in the Black Mediterranean: Two Nigerian Women’s Experiences of Reception in Italy
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | Migrations in the Mediterranean |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Chapter 3 Creating Crises: Risk, Racialization, and the Migration-Security Nexus in Italy and the US
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Managing Migration in Italy and the United States |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“OutLaw Yard”
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter, Katrina M. Powell |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Testimony on the Move: Navigating the Borders of (In)visibility with Migrant -Led Soundwalks
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | a/b: Auto/Biography Studies |
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Review: Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | ITALIAN STUDIES |
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | the minnesota review |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Liminal Lives of Europe’s Transit Migrants
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Contexts |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony: Jonas Carpignano's Mediterranea
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | a/b: Auto/Biography Studies |
The Spaces of Citizenship: Mapping Personal and Colonial Histories in Contemporary Italy in Igiaba Scego’s La Mia Casa È Dove Sono (My Home is Where I Am)
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Life Writing |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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