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About

Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research is focused on migration and refugee mobility; sovereignty, democracy, and human rights; citizenship, cities, and aesthetics; pluralism and religion in public life; and epistemology. Albahari has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2016.

Albahari serves as concurrent Associate Professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs, and also is a research associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego.

Thematic Interests

Social-cultural anthropology; international migration and refugee mobility; sovereignty; democracy and human rights; religious pluralism

Current Research

Trans-Mediterranean citizenship and mobilization, interreligious dialogue, and the politics of changing cities

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Journal Articles

Albahari, Maurizio. “‘We haven’t risked our life for free food and shelter’: Migration, Contentious Charity, and Justice,” in Erica Caple James, ed., Faith, Charity, and the Security State (SAR Press, forthcoming)

Albahari, Maurizio. “From Right to Permission: Asylum, Mediterranean Migrations, and Europe’s War on Smuggling,” Journal on Migration and Human Security (2018)

Albahari, Maurizio. “Beyond Europe, Borders Adrift,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development (2017)

Albahari, Maurizio. “Mediterranean Carnage: Heretical Scholarship and Public Citizenship in an Age of Eloquence,” Anthropological Quarterly 89, 3 (2016)

After the Shipwreck: Mourning and Citizenship in the Mediterranean, Our Sea by Maurizio Albahari

Albahari, Maurizio. “After the Shipwreck: Mourning and Citizenship in the Mediterranean, Our Sea,” in Alexandra Delano and Benjamin Nienass, eds., Social Research: An International Quarterly 83, 2 (2016)

Albahari, Maurizio. "War in Syria and the Refugee Crisis" (with Sofian Merabet, Nell Gabiam, Kristin Monroe, and Julie Peteet), Anthropology News 57, 5-6 (2016)

“Il futuro non è scritto: il Mediterraneo tra lutto ed eurocentrismo,” in Trasformazione: Rivista di Storia delle Idee 5, 1 (2016)

Albahari, Maurizio. “Europe’s refugee crisis,” guest editorial, Anthropology Today 31, 5 (2015)

Albahari, Maurizio. “Between Mediterranean Centrality and European Periphery: Migration and Heritage in Southern Italy,” International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies 1, 2 (2009)

Books

Albahari, Maurizio. Tra la Guerra e il Mare: Democrazia Migrante e Crimini di Pace (Manifestolibri, Italy, 2017)

Albahari, Maurizio. Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Book Chapters

Albahari, Maurizio. “Genealogies of the Military-Humanitarian Border,” in Marina Calloni and Eileen Hunt Botting, eds., Borders, Sovereignty, Rights (Università degli Studi di Milano, 2013)

Albahari, Maurizio. “The Birth of a Border: Policing by Charity on the Italian Maritime Edge,” in Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh, eds., Border Encounters: Proximity and Asymmetry at Europe’s Frontiers (Berghahn Books, 2013)

Others

Albahari, Maurizio. “Hollow Captivity: Pushing against the Wall,” Correspondences, Cultural Anthropology website (April, 2017)

Albahari, Maurizio. “Stemming Refugee Flows, Warehousing Refugee Souls,” Anthropology News, Association for the Anthropology of Policy (March 2016)

Albahari, Maurizio, guest editor. “Migration,” theme issue, Italian Culture 28, 2 (2010)

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway Affiliated Fellowship, American Academy in Rome (2016–2017)

The Primacy of Relation and the Challenge of the Migrant — a LANACC conference in Rome

Feb 6, 2017

Syrian Refugees Support Each Other in Britain

Aug 20, 2016

EU Braced for Refugee Setbacks as Turkey Deal Meets Skepticism

Mar 18, 2016