Biography
Caterina Di Fazio, PhD (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) is a political philosopher and co-founder of the transatlantic consortium Agora Europe, member of the United Nations Network on Migration, together with Etienne Balibar. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher on “Migrant Inclusion and Wellbeing” at Radboud University. Previously, she was a Remarque Fellow at New York University with the project “Mobility and Borders”, and a postdoc at Maastricht University Studio Europa on “Identity, Heritage and the Citizens’ Perspective”. She also held several visiting scholar appointments at Columbia University, Scuola Normale Superiore, the University of Oxford, the University of Western Australia, and a fellowship at the International Organization for Migration.
Her research is centered on the phenomenon of human mobility, migratory and maritime routes, and sea rescue, also in relation to climate change and misinformation. Starting from January 2025, she will join the team of the ERC-funded project OSPAPIK, focusing on ocean expeditions in relation to indigenous knowledge and plastic pollution. Her first book is Acqua come frontiera. Politiche per una nuova cultura della mobilità umana (Feltrinelli 2022).
As a Visiting Fellow at the Florence STG, she will complete the monograph Phenomenology of Political Space, focusing on the European political space and EU borders, for submission to Éditions de la Sorbonne, and start working on her new monograph Phenomenology of Human Mobility, including a set of recommendations on regular migration pathways, migrant workers’ rights, and climate displacement.