Enrico Fravega, sociologist, is Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the University of Genoa. He has a sound research experience in the fields of migration and border studies.
His recent research work focuses on the nexus between migration, solidarities, and temporalities in the Mediterranean area, as well as the racialization of space.
From a methodological perspective, his approach primarily relies on ethnographic and participatory methods, as well as biographical techniques.
He is a member of the ERC AdG SOLROUTES research project (www.solroutes.eu) and he is the coordinator of the MOBS research group (www.mobsprin2020.org).
Together with Massimo Cannarella, he is the author of the documentary “Il Crollo” (2022), a short film about the human and housing experiences of people displaced from their homes following the collapse of the Morandi Bridge. He is also among the authors of the documentary “Mainland” (2022).
Selected publications
Fravega E. (2025 – forthcoming), No more “Medi-terranean”. Border materialities in the central Mediterranean Sea and their effects on encounters and solidarities. Mondi Migranti, 3. (ANVUR “A class” journal)
Bonnin, I., Fravega, E., & Queirolo Palmas, L. (2025 – forthcoming). Mobilità e immaginari del Canale di Sicilia: uno sguardo dal mare. Quaderni di Sociologia, 3. (ANVUR “A class” journal)
Fravega, E., Ghaffari, R. & Korukmez, L. (2025). To See and be Seen: Multilayered Field Ethnography in the Evros Region. Critical Criminologies, 1(32). [DOI: 10.1007/s10612-025-09827-2].
Fravega E. & Boccagni P. (2024). Home and housing. In Cvajner, M., Kivisto, P., Sciortino, G. (eds.). Research Handbook on Sociology of Migration. Edward Elgar Handbook [http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839105463]
Bonnin, I., Fravega, E., & Queirolo Palmas, L. (2024). Of land and sea: “Interested solidarities” and the migration industry from below. Mondi Migranti, 2, 159-189. (ANVUR “A class” journal)
Giliberti, L., & Fravega, E. (2024). Contested Time. Migrants’ Temporal Practices and Agency in Institutional Reception and Grassroots Solidarity at the Canary Islands. Italian Sociological Review, 14(9S), 299–320. [DOI: 10.13136/isr.v14i9S.692]. (ANVUR “A class” journal)
Fravega E. (2023). Schizochronicity. Dispossession and fragmentation of asylum seekers’ temporalities. The Lab’s Quarterly, n. 2, 17-38. [DOI: 10.13131/unipi/7jte-vs68]
Fravega, E., Anderlini, J., (2023). Razzializzazione in corso. Il caso degli insediamenti informali dei migranti nei distretti agricoli del Mezzogiorno. Sociologia urbana e rurale, n. 45, (131), 42–58. [DOI: 10.3280/SUR2023-131003]. (ANVUR “A class” journal)
Fravega, E., Giudici, D., Boccagni, P. (2023). La lotta per il tempo. Temporalità contestate nell’esperienza dei richiedenti asilo in Italia. Milano: Meltemi. [ISBN: 9788855197991]
Fravega E. (2023). Looking for homes in migrants’ informal settlements. A case study from Italy. In Imiscoe-Springer Handbook “Migration and domestic space: Ethnographies of home in the making” (eds.: Boccagni, P., Bonfanti, S.). Pages: 153-170. [ISBN: 9783031231278]
Fravega, E. (2022). L’abitare migrante. Racconti biografici e percorsi abitativi di migranti in Italia. Milano: Meltemi. [ISBN: 9788855195980]
Belloni M., Fravega E., Giudici D., (2020). Fuori dall’accoglienza: insediamenti informali di rifugiati tra marginalità e autonomia. Politiche Sociali/Social Policies, n. 2 pp. 225-244. [DOI: 10.7389/97987]
