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Elena Giacomelli
Elena Giacomelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology and Business Law at the University of Bologna. She is now working on environmental change and migration dynamics. She obtained a Ph.D., conducting ethnographic research on social workers with asylum seekers and refugees. Her research and publications focus on mobility and migration, ethnography and cultural sociology. In 2018, Elena was a visiting research fellow at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). In 2016, she took an internship in the Australian Population and Migration Research Center (University of Adelaide). She conducted her master’s dissertation in the Philippines, focusing on environmentally displaced people.
Contact: Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Strada Maggiore, 45, 40125 Bologna BO, Italy.