Roberta Biasillo in the fortcoming Fennia - International Journal of Geography
Biasillo's paper explores several conundrums concerning environmental migration in social sciences and demonstrates how historical perspectives can problematize and unsettle various automatisms that are widely present in journalistic, public, and policy discourses.
Biasillo, R. (2020) Historical tools and current societal challenges: reflections on a collection of environmental migration cases. Fennia 198(1–2) xx–xx. Funded by the EU initiative Horizon 2020 Clisel Wti. Download the full article.
Roberta Biasillo is an environmental historian and holds a PhD in early modern and modern European history from the University of Bari, Italy. She has been actively involved in integration activities for refugees and migrants, as well as detention center educational programs. Roberta has worked at the Division and with the EHL on several occasions, both as a visiting scholar and as a researcher. Her last position with us was as researcher at the EHL where she was engaged in CLISEL, Crosscuts Film Festival and OCC! as well as research coordination and communication.
Roberta ended her position at KTH in September 2020 to become a Max Weber fellow at the Europen University Institute in Florence, where she will further pursue her research project on the making of Fascist Libya from an environmental history perspective. She has contributed greatly to the research, the events and the work environment both at the EHL and at the Division as a whole. We wish her all the best at her future position, and hope to see her soon again.
FENNIA is a non-profit peer-review open access journal published by the Geographical Society of Finland since 1889. It is an international scientific publication dedicated to all fields of geography with attentiveness to northern dimensions.