Eleanor Paynter

I study borders, asylum, migration through ethnography and media analysis. My interdisciplinary work draws on cultural studies and critical refugee studies. I focus in particular on Mediterranean migration, Africa-Europe mobilities, migrant reception in Italy, and rights and racial justice issues across contexts. I have written about these topics and issues in my recently published book Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, 2024). I am currently Assistant Professor of Italian, Migration, and Global Media Studies at the University of Oregon.