Alice Massari

Alice Massari has been awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship at the CERC Migration and the University of Copenhagen. She holds an MA in International Relations and a PhD in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations.

Before coming to Toronto Metropolitan University she has been working in the humanitarian sector since 2007 as a researcher, aid worker and consultant. Over the last 15 years, she has worked as humanitarian affairs officer for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO); and as an expert on migration for the European Commission; as well as an aid worker in Africa and the Middle East.

Her research and writing focus on migration, humanitarianism, visuality and securitization.

Recent Publications

(2024). Migration agencies’ visual performance within the Border spectacle. The case of EU and Canadian institutions (external link) . Comparative Migration Studies, 12(1), 1-20.

(2024). The visual governance of Canadian migration agencies (external link) . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–18.

with Mohlo, J. (2024). Can the arts challenge mainstream representations of migration? An Inquiry into the Aga Khan Museum’s Afghanistan My Love Exhibition (external link) , International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.

(2023).  (PDF file) The role of images in migration governance. A proposed new theoretical framework and methodological approach, Working Papers Series produced jointly by the Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement and the CERC in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Working Paper No. 2023/06 June 2023.

with Achilli, L. (2023). Enter the Boogeyman: representations of human smugglingin mainstream narratives of migration (external link) , Achilli L. and Kyle D. (eds), Global Human Smuggling. Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Johns Hopkins University Press.

(2023). No countries for refugees. Canada and Europe’s shrinking asylum space (external link) , PKI Global Justice Journal, 325-344.

(2024).  (PDF file) “Reframing Migration: The Use of Visual Communication by Government Institutions”, CERC Migration Policy Brief 19, Toronto Metropolitan University.

(2023).  (PDF file) The role of images in migration governance. A proposed new theoretical framework and methodological approach. Working Paper.

(2021) Visual Securitization. Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance, (external link)  IMISCOE/Springer series. 

(2021).  (excel file) Hollywood and the Myth of Criminal Convergence. The case of Sicario: Day of the Soldado (external link)  in Sanchez, G. and Achilli, L. (eds) The Illicit Global Economy Discourse.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101024772.