Irene Peano trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, where she received her PhD in 2011. She has previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Bologna, where she held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship, and at the University of Bucharest. For more than fifteen years, she has been engaged in research on the exploitation of migrants, with a specific focus on sex work and agricultural labour, and on forms of resistance to labour and migration regimes, to...

Expertise

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

Roles

  • Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

    University, Lisbon, Portugal
    Assistant Researcher

Research

Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes

Authors Francesca Esposito, Alí Murtaza, Irene Peano, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Citizenship Studies
2 Journal Article

Global care-commodity chains: Labour re/production and agribusiness in the district of Foggia, southeastern Italy

Authors Irene Peano
Year 2017
Journal Name SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
3 Journal Article

New Keywords: Migration and Borders

Authors Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Nicholas De Genova, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Cultural Studies
4 Journal Article

Excesses and double standards: migrant prostitutes, sovereignty and exceptions in contemporary Italy

Authors Irene Peano
Year 2012
Journal Name Modern Italy
5 Journal Article

Gender, Utopias and the Savage Slot: The Role of Anthropology in the (De)Construction of a Concept

Authors Irene Peano
Year 2019
Journal Name ETHICS IN PROGRESS
6 Journal Article

Within and Against Racial Segregation

Authors Irene Peano
Journal Name Lateral
7 Journal Article

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