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...

Expertise

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

Roles

  • 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

  • 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
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1 Book Chapter

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
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2 Journal Article

From Vulnerability to Trust

Authors Pierre Monforte, Gaja Maestri
Year 2022
Journal Name Migration and Society
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3 Journal Article

Victims and agents

Year 2022
Book Title How the other half lives
4 Book Chapter

‘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
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5 Journal Article

Donne e rom. Segregazione razziale, oppressione di genere e resistenze

Authors Claudia Mantovan, Gaja Maestri
Year 2021
Journal Name SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
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6 Journal Article

Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the ‘Refugee Crisis’

Authors Gaja Maestri, Pierre Monforte
Year 2020
Journal Name Sociology
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7 Journal Article

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
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8 Journal Article

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
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9 Journal Article

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
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10 Book Chapter

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
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11 Journal Article

Temporary Camps, Enduring Segregation

Authors Gaja Maestri
Year 2019
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12 Book

The struggles of ‘migrant-squatters’: disrupting categories, eluding theories

Authors Gaja Maestri
Year 2018
Journal Name City
13 Journal Article

Contested spaces of citizenship: camps, borders and urban encounters

Authors Gaja Maestri, Sarah M. Hughes
Year 2017
Journal Name Citizenship Studies
Citations (WoS) 8
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14 Journal Article

Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment

Year 2017
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16 Journal Article

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
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17 Book Chapter

Book Review: Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control

Authors Gaja Maestri
Year 2016
Journal Name International Migration Review
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19 Journal Article

Book Review: Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Times of Crisis

Authors Gaja Maestri
Year 2016
Journal Name Political Studies Review
20 Journal Article

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