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...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • 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

  • 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
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1 Book Chapter

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
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2 Book Chapter

“OutLaw Yard”

Authors Eleanor Paynter, Katrina M. Powell
Year 2023
Journal Name Migration and Society
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3 Journal Article

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
4 Journal Article

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
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5 Journal Article

Review: Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention

Authors Eleanor Paynter
Year 2020
Journal Name ITALIAN STUDIES
6 Journal Article

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
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7 Journal Article

The Liminal Lives of Europe’s Transit Migrants

Authors Eleanor Paynter
Year 2018
Journal Name Contexts
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8 Journal Article

Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony: Jonas Carpignano's Mediterranea

Authors Eleanor Paynter
Year 2017
Journal Name a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
9 Journal Article

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