Research Explorer

Your browser does not support JavaScript or JavaScript is not enabled. Without JavaScript some functions of this webapplication may be disabled or cause error messages. To enable JavaScript, please consult the manual of your browser or contact your system administrator.

Researcher

Milena Belloni

Awards & Distinctions

49 Results

2024

Refugee families' contributions to Belgian society: obstacles and mitigating practices

Roos-Marie van den BogaardEllen DesmetMilena BelloniRobin Vandevoordt

2023

Once we relax, the door of trauma is open : Aaron’s life story

Bookchapter in Finding home in Europe : chronicles of global migrants

Uneven borders : family reunification regulations and their implications in Europe

Paola BonizzoniMilena Belloni

Bookchapter in Handbook of transnational families around the world

2022

Accumulated homelessness : analysing protracted displacement along Eritreans’ life histories

Milena BelloniAurora Massa

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

Cosmologies and migration : on worldviews and their influence on mobility and immobility

A1 Journal Article in IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER

Return and retreat in a transnational world : insights from the Eritrean case

Georgia ColeMilena Belloni

A2 Journal Article in REFUGE

2021

Remittance houses and transnational citizenship : mapping Eritrea's diaspora-state relationships

A1 Journal Article in AFRICA SPECTRUM

Transnational lived citizenship : the case of the Eritrean diaspora

Tanja R. MüllerMilena Belloni

Editorial material

2020

Constraints and transgressions in journeys of displacement

Joris SchapendonkMilena Belloni

Bookchapter in The handbook of displacement

Fuori dall'accoglienza : insediamenti informali di rifugiati tra marginalità e autonomia

Milena BelloniEnrico FravegaDaniela Giudici

A2 Journal Article in POLITICHE SOCIALI (BOLOGNA)

Homemaking from the margins : towards a new conversation on home on the move

Paolo BoccagniLuis Eduardo PéRez MurciaMilena Belloni

Bookchapter in Thinking home on the move

Methodological innovations, reflections and dilemmas : the hidden sides of research with migrant young people classified as unaccompanied minors

Elaine ChaseLaura OttoMilena BelloniAnnika LemsUlrika Wernesjö

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES

No way to find home : common stories of Eritreans in Italy and the Netherlands

Milena BelloniAurora Massa

Quando lo studio non paga : un'analisi sui differenziali salariali fra stranieri e italiani

Marco TosiCamilla BorgnaMilena Belloni

A4 Journal Article in ECONOMIA E SOCIETÀ REGIONALE. OLTRE IL PONTE

Shaping the 'deserving refugee' : insights from a local reception programme in Belgium

Stiene RavnRilke MahieuMilena BelloniChristiane Timmerman

Bookchapter in Geographies of asylum in Europe and the role of European localities

Sheltering the undocumented in Amsterdam : inclusive housing rights or policing urban informality?

Milena BelloniSilvia Aru

Thinking home on the move : a conversation across disciplines

Paolo BoccagniLuis Eduardo Pérez MurciaMilena Belloni

When the phone stops ringing : on the meanings and causes of disruptions in communication between Eritrean refugees and their families back home

A1 Journal Article in GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS

2019

Amid border wrangles, Eritreans wrestle with staying or going

Milena BelloniJames Jeffrey

Article in a newspaper

Breaking free from tradition : women, national service and migration in Eritrea

A2 Journal Article in MIGRATION LETTERS

Cycling heaven : the African capital with 'no traffic'

Milena BelloniJames Jeffrey

Article in a newspaper

Family project or individual choice? : Exploring agency in young Eritreans’ migration

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES

Is Eritrea coming in from the cold?

Milena BelloniJames Jeffrey

Article in a newspaper

L’intelligence collective sur le terrain : cognition distribuée et recherches qualitatives multi-sites

Ilka Vari-LavoisierPaolo BoccagniMilena BelloniSara BonfantiAurora MassaAlejandro MirandaLuis Eduardo Pérez-Murcia

A2 Journal Article in ESPACES ET SOCIÉTÉS

On the complexities of collaborative ethnography : ethical and methodological insights from the HOMInG project

Milena BelloniSara BonfantiAurora MassaLuis-Eduardo PerezMurciaAlejandro Miranda NietoIlka Vari-LavoisierPaolo Boccagni

Refugees and citizens : understanding Eritrean refugees’ ambivalence towards homeland politics

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY

The big gamble : the migration of Eritreans to Europe

Transnational Figurations of Displacement : conceptualising protracted displacement and translocal connectivity through a process-oriented perspective

Benjamin EtzoldMilena BelloniRussell KingAlbert KralerFerruccio Pastore

What is your address? Exploring the gap between legal residence, social rights and informal housing in Rome

Aurora MassaMilena Belloni

When migration is everywhere, but you cannot see it : methodological reflections from fieldwork in Eritrea

2018

'Why don’t you move onwards?' : The influence of transnational ties and kinship obligations on Eritrean refugees’ feeling of being stuck in Italy

Bookchapter in Postliberation Eritrea

A ‘Postcolonial’ migration? : An analysis of Eritrean mobility trajectories

Bookchapter in The Horn of Africa and Italy : colonial, postcolonial and transnational cultural encounters

Becoming unaccustomed to home : young Eritreans’ narratives about estrangement, belonging and the desire to leave home

Bookchapter in Contested belonging : spaces, practices, biographies

L’amore ai tempi dell’esilio : prospettive sulle relazioni di coppia nel contesto della migrazione forzata

Milena BelloniValentina Fusari

A2 Journal Article in STUDI EMIGRAZIONE = MIGRATIONS STUDIES

Mobilità e relazioni affettive : uno sguardo interdisciplinare

Milena BelloniSilvia BruzziValentina Fusari

A2 Journal Article in STUDI EMIGRAZIONE = MIGRATIONS STUDIES

Women in Mediterranean asylum flows : current scenario and ways forward

Milena BelloniFerruccio PastoreChristiane Timmerman

Bookchapter in Gender and migration : a gender-sensitive approach to migration dynamics

2016

Anything new under the sun? Analysing the shifting flow of Eritrean asylum seekers to Europe

Crossing the border, blurring the boundaries : alternative views on human smuggling from the Horn of Africa

Donne rifugiate : non solo vittime

Milena BelloniFerruccio Pastore

A4 Journal Article in ASPENIA

Learning how to squat : cooperation and conflict between refugees and natives in Rome

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

Quando migrare diventa la norma : pressioni sociali ed aspirazioni individuali nella migrazione forzata dall’Eritrea

Bookchapter in I rifugiati e l'Europa : tra crisi internazionali e corridoi d'accesso

Rapid fragility and migration assessment for Eritrea

Milena BelloniGeorgia Cole

Refugees as gamblers : Eritreans seeking to migrate through Italy

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE STUDIES

Relazioni in movimento : la pratica dello sport come mezzo di integrazione delle donne di origine immigrata in Trentino : rapporto di ricerca

Solo di passaggio : l'Italia nelle rappresentazioni e nelle pratiche di mobilità dei giovani eritrei

A2 Journal Article in MONDI MIGRANTI

‘My uncle cannot say 'no' if I reach Libya’ : unpacking the social dynamics of border-crossing among Eritreans heading to Europe

A2 Journal Article in HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

2014

Human smugglers : exploiters or pioneers of new underground railroad?

Milena BelloniJames Jeffrey

Article in a newspaper

It's April, which means Eritrea's refugees are headed north

2012

Come ti smantello Addis Abeba

Article in a magazine