Dr Martina Tazzioli

Martina Tazzioli is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on migration and borders in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region.

Before joining the University of Bologna, she was Reader in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths and Lecturer in Geography at Swansea University. She has a background in political philosophy (University of Pisa).

She is the author of 'Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles' (2023), 'The Making of Migration. The biopolitics of mobility at Europe’s borders' (2019), 'Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings' (2015) and co-author of 'Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration' (2016).

Her new book project is entitled 'The Unmaking of Migrant Life. Technologies of Suffocation in Europe'.