I study borders, mobility, and how experiences of precarious migration are shaped by histories and institutions. 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. In...
| 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
Research
Review: Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
| Authors | Eleanor Paynter |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Italian 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 |
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