Benedetta Zocchi

Benedetta Zocchi

Postdoctoral Researcher

 

 

 

Affiliation: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Expert in: Borders and detention; Forced migration; Migration and race 
Geographic focus: EU, Western Balkans, East Africa

Benedetta’s work focuses on experiences of mobility, deportability, border-enforcement, and border-resistance. She is particularly interested in exploring how such experiences interact with local contexts, histories, and agencies in the spaces where refugees are forced to prolonged and undesired stays. Her postdoctoral work contributes the project ConflictNet, which investigates the ways social media, images and narratives are changing ties between migration nodes and diaspora networks and affecting decision-making processes regarding migration in East Africa. Before joining the University of Oxford, Benedetta researched refugee struggles in the Western Balkans, Italy, UK, and in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.