GLiTCH's research team
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Dr Jacob Cassani
Research Associate |
Jacob Cassani completed his doctoral research at UCL, and his ethnographic work focused on the relationship between Syrian refugees and Lebanese hashish farming communities in the central and Northern Biqa'a valley. He conducted 17 months of fieldwork in the camps and villages of the region, and his work looks at rural labour organisation and refugee/camp governance, with a special focus on trust and gender. Prior to this, he worked in the humanitarian sector in Palestinian camps and gatherings throughout Lebanon. He is currently conducting research into cash assistance programmes for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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Dr Glenda Garelli
GLiTCH Project Co-Investigator |
Glenda Garelli is Lecturer in critical human geography at the University of Leeds, where she also serves as the School of Geography widening participation officer. Her research on migration and refugee issues in the Mediterranean region has appeared in a range of peer-reviewed journals, a monograph, and several edited books. She also translated a volume on Italian critical thought. With GLiTCH she explores the use of digital technologies, connectivity platforms, and interoperable systems in the governance of refugees and vulnerable populations in Lebanon and Jordan. She is part of the Bauman Institute Management Network and the Leeds Migration Research Network.
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Dr Nadine Hassouneh
Research Associate |
Nadine Hassouneh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Fellow at the Council for British Research in the Levant. She has published research on stateless diasporas, governance structures in opposition held Syrian territories, and remote humanitarianism. Her previous experience includes working as a conflict and context analyst at international non-governmental organisations responding to the Syrian crisis from Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. Her current research explores financialisation and connectivity in humanitarian settings in Jordan and Lebanon, humanitarianism and remote management technologies, as well as refugee labour and refugee knowledges in the modern international humanitarian regime.
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Dr Lauren Martin
Principal Investigator |
Lauren Martin is Associate Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. She has published research on the detention migrant and asylum-seeking families in the US, the securitisation of migration, and emerging economies of migration control in journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Progress in Human Geography; Political Geography; Territory, Politics, Governance; Environment & Planning A; and Geopolitics. Supported by a Political Economy Research Fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation. Her current research explores the financialisation of migration, asylum and refugee management.
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Dr Hanna A Ruszczyk
Research Associate |
Hanna Ruszczyk is a feminist urban geographer at Durham University. She has published research on livability, infrastructure, the everyday and disasters, as well as resilience of urbanising cities in journals such as: Antipode, Area, Disasters, Environment & Urbanization, Urban Geography and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Her co-edited book Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South, Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City series, Routledge has just been published. She is particularly interested in creative and interdisciplinary methods. Before academia, Hanna worked for the ILO and UNDP for over a decade.
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Dr Aila
Spathopoulou Research Associate |
Aila Spathopoulou holds a PhD in Geography from King's College University in London. Her PhD thesis considered the hotspots as an analytical lens to explore the complex relationship between (unruly) forms of migration and forms of migration governance in Greek and European contexts. She is one of the co-founders of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research in Athens. She has published articles in peer review journals, such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geopolitics and Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees and a forthcoming article in International Political Sociology Journal. She has a forthcoming monograph to be published with Palgrave Machmillan titled Bordering and Governmentality around the Greek islands that is based on her PhD research and dissertation on the hotspot system in Greece.
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Dr Martina Tazzioli
Co-Investigator |
Martina Tazzioli is Lecturer in Politics and Technology at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work, at the crossroad of critical overall explores the biopolitical mechanisms by which some subjects are racialised and governed as “migrants”, analysing the intertwining of modes of objectivation and subjectivities. She has investigated the technologization of the border regime and how technologies constitute a battlefield for migrants, states and non-state actors. She is part of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and member of Migreurop. She published three monographs on migration and she co-edited two books on the work and uses of Michel Foucault. Martina initiated the seminar series "Migration, Technology & Postcolonial Genealogies" and she is one of the coordinators of .Migration Research Network at Goldsmiths. Her new project is entitled "Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of rescue and struggles".
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