Role
Associate Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Department of Sociology and Social Research and the School of International Studies of the University of Trento
Bio
Anna Casaglia, a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca, began her academic career at the University of Eastern Finland as a research fellow and senior researcher, deepening her expertise in border management processes and migration management, particularly in the context of the European Union.
He has held numerous visiting fellowships at universities and interdisciplinary institutions, including Goldsmiths College London (UK), Durham University (UK), the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig (Germany), the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (USA), and Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia).
She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Commission on Political Geography of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and is a past President of the Association for Borderland Studies (ABS).
His most recent projects and publications address issues such as the management of the European Union's internal borders, the positioning of the new populist right in relation to environmental and climate security, the issue of biometric controls on migrants and the forms of violence associated with them, and the practices of externalizing border control.