I am a sociologist of migration with a particular expertise in ethnography, refugee studies and the Horn of Africa. Over the past 10 years, my primary concerns of investigation have been the drivers and the dynamics of forced and high risk-migrants; migrant smuggling; gender and migration; secondary movements of asylum seekers and refugees within Europe; Dublin Regulations and its implications; home and housing studies; transnational families. Most of my empirical work has been based on qualitative...

Roles

  • University of Antwerp

    University, Antwerp, Belgium
    Assistant Professor in Migration and Global Mobility

  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen

    Other, Antwerp, Belgium
    FWO Postdoctoral Researcher

  • University of Trento

    University, Trento, Italy
    Post-doctoral researcher

  • CeMIS, University of Antwerp

    University, Antwerpen, Belgium
    Assistant Professor in Migration and Global Mobility

  • CeMIS, University of Antwerp

    University, Antwerpen, Belgium
    Post doctoral Researcher

Research

The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2019
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1 Journal Article

Family project or individual choice? Exploring agency in young Eritreans’ migration

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 6
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2 Journal Article

Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas: the hidden sides of research with migrant young people classified as unaccompanied minors

Authors Elaine Chase, Laura Otto, Annika Lems, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 6
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3 Journal Article

Refugees and citizens: Understanding Eritrean refugees’ ambivalence towards homeland politics

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Comparative Sociology
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5 Journal Article

Learning How to Squat: Cooperation and Conflict between Refugees and Natives in Rome

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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6 Journal Article

Refugees as Gamblers: Eritreans Seeking to Migrate Through Italy

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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7 Journal Article

"Solo di passaggio": l'Italia nelle rappresentazioni e nelle pratiche di mobilità dei giovani eritrei

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2016
Journal Name MONDI MIGRANTI
8 Journal Article

Return and Retreat in a Transnational World: Insights from Eritrea

Authors Georgia Cole, Milena Belloni
Year 2022
Journal Name Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
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9 Journal Article

Breaking Free from Tradition: Women, National Service and Migration in Eritrea

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2019
Journal Name MIGRATION LETTERS
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10 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Cosmologies and migration: on worldviews and their influence on mobility and immobility

Authors Milena Belloni
Year 2020
Journal Name Identities
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1 Journal Article

Deserving or undeserving?

Authors Silvia Aru, Silvia Aru, Milena Belloni, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Cities
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2 Journal Article

The right to exit as national and transnational governance: The case of Eritrea

Authors Belloni Milena, Georgia Cole
Year 2022
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 2
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3 Journal Article

Family reunification and administrative citizenship

Authors Milena Belloni, Gert Verschraegen
Year 2024
Book Title Family Reunification in Europe
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4 Book Chapter

Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories

Authors Milena Belloni, Aurora Massa
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 8
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5 Journal Article

Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium

Authors Sara De Hertog, Sara De Hertog, Milena Belloni, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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6 Journal Article

Women in Mediterranean asylum flows:

Authors Milena Belloni, Ferruccio Pastore, Christiane Timmerman
Year 2018
Book Title Gender and Migration
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7 Book Chapter

Transnational Lived Citizenship – The Case of the Eritrean Diaspora

Authors Tanja R. Müller, Milena Belloni
Year 2021
Journal Name Africa Spectrum
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8 Journal Article

Daring to aspire: theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility

Authors Lea Müller-Funk, Ayşen Üstübici, Milena Belloni
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
9 Journal Article

L’intelligence collective sur le terrain : cognition distribuée et recherches qualitatives multi-sites

Authors Ilka Vari-Lavoisier, Paolo Boccagni, Milena Belloni, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Espaces et sociétés
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10 Journal Article
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