I am a sociologist with an expertise on migrant integration and migrant solidarity, and I specialise in qualitative methodologies. Since 2019 I am a Lecturer in Sociology and Policy in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University (Birmingham, UK). I am also Visiting Professor at the UIC – Barcelona as part of the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture, for which I run a class on ‘Camps, politics and space’, exploring the ambiguities and theories...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4494 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7935-0358 |
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| Research Gate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gaja-Maestri |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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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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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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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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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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Aston University
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer -
International University of Catalunya (UIC)
University, Barcelona, Spain
Invited Professor -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Postdoctoral Research Associate -
Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
PhD Student -
Sciences Po, Paris
University, Paris, France
Invited Research Fellow -
Aston University
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
TA Politics/Space: Drawing Lines, Writing the World (Level 3) -
Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
TA Political Geography (Level 2) -
Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
TA Political Geography (Level 2) -
Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
TA Political Geography (Level 2) -
Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
TA Political Geography (Level 2) -
Durham University
University, Durham, United Kingdom
TA Social Research in Human Geography (Level 2)
Research
Home, migration, and Roma people in Europe
| Authors | Stefano Piemontese, Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Handbook on Home and Migration |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Between Charity and Protest. The Politicisation of Refugee Support Volunteers
| Authors | Pierre Monforte, Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
From Vulnerability to Trust
| Authors | Pierre Monforte, Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘It’s like having one more family member’: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks
| Authors | Pierre Monforte, Gaja Maestri, Estelle d’Halluin |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Sociology |
Donne e rom. Segregazione razziale, oppressione di genere e resistenze
| Authors | Claudia Mantovan, Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the ‘Refugee Crisis’
| Authors | Gaja Maestri, Pierre Monforte |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Sociology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Brexit: Modes of uncertainty and futures in an impasse
| Authors | Ben Anderson, Helen F. Wilson, Peter J. Forman, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |
Bringing the Third Sector Back into Ghetto Studies: Roma Segregation and Civil Society Associations in Italy
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy (Global Migration and Social Change). By Ala Sirriyeh
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
Temporary Camps, Enduring Segregation
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2019 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The struggles of ‘migrant-squatters’: disrupting categories, eluding theories
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | City |
Contested spaces of citizenship: camps, borders and urban encounters
| Authors | Gaja Maestri, Sarah M. Hughes |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 |
Struggles and ambiguities over political subjectivities in the camp: Roma camp dwellers between neoliberal and urban citizenship in Italy
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Sociology of the Camps’ Persisting Architecture. Why Did Rome not Put an End to Expensive Ethnic Housing Policies?
| Authors | Gaja Maestri, Tommaso Vitale |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Architecture and the Social Sciences |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The contentious sovereignties of the camp: Political contention among state and non-state actors in Italian Roma camps
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Political Geography |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Review: Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Book Review: Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Times of Crisis
| Authors | Gaja Maestri |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Political Studies Review |
Suggested Research
Roma housing deprivation and segregation in Italy: An intersectional analysis of social navigation strategies of Romanian Roma migrant women and men
| Authors | Gaja Maestri, Claudia Mantovan |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |