Jacopo Anderlini is a Research Fellow in Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes (SPS/08) at the University of Parma since February 2023. He teaches the Sociological-Legal Clinic "Discrimination, Social Movements, Rights". He was a Research Fellow at the University of Genoa from February 2020 to January 2023 where, within the Borderlands and ASIT (PRIN) projects, he dealt with the governance of contemporary transit migration in Europe, focusing on the border regime, its infrastructure and technologies, its legal and procedural framework, its practices - from the birth and development of the Hotspot Approach, to the re-emergence of internal borders, to the digital and technological dimension of controls, to border externalization processes. He also studied the intersection between contemporary mobility and exploitation dynamics in seasonal agricultural work. He was a Visiting Researcher (2023-2024) at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
His main research interests concern border studies, migration and asylum, critical theory of technologies, and social and political philosophy. His research focuses on the transformations of mobility governance, its infrastructure and logistics, at Europe's southern borders.
He is part of the Media Board of the ERC Advanced SOLROUTES project ("Solidarities and Migrants' Routes Across Europe at Large"); of the COST Action DATAMIG project (Working Group 3); of the ParTeR Table (Participatory Teaching and Research) at the University of Parma; of the Laboratory of Visual Sociology at the University of Genoa. He has published in Italian and international academic journals. He is co-editor of the volumes Mediterranean Crossroads (Elèuthera, 2023) and Borderland Italy (DeriveApprodi, 2022). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Controfuoco".