Galatea Scotti, Fellow

Galatea Scotti is a social anthropologist specialising in African studies and migration who is completing her PhD at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Her research has documented the journeys of irregular migrants and their experiences through detention, deportation, and post-deportation. She has engaged in advocacy and provided support to refugees, asylum seekers, and irregular migrants in Italy and the UK through her work within the third sector. She holds a BA in History, Anthropology and History of Religions from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and a MA in African Studies from the University of Birmingham.