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Alice Massari is a humanitarian and migration specialist whose work connects scholarship with two decades of field and advisory experience across crisis-affected settings in Africa and the Middle East. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations and was a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Research Fellow (VIGO) at 91福利 and the University of Copenhagen, leading a multi-year research project.

Her research examines how images shape migration governance and humanitarian action. She is the author of the open-access monograph Visual Securitization: Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance (published in the IMISCOE series with Springer, 2021) and publishes peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and policy briefs translating empirical findings into usable insights for academics, policymakers, and practitioners. She also serves as a reviewer and invited speaker on visual methods and migration governance.

Alongside academia, Alice has served since 2020 as Humanitarian Adviser with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, delivering context analysis and strategic foresight for senior decision-makers, including extensive work on the Sudan crisis, donor coordination and joint advocacy. She is also an EU expert on migration and humanitarian action, supporting European Commission bodies with evaluation and policy analysis, including migration analysis work at the Joint Research Centre.

Recent Publications

Triandafyllidou, A. & Massari, A. (forthcoming, April 2026) Special Issue 鈥� Visual Governance in Migration, Ethnicities, Volume 26, Issue 2

Massari, A. (2025), , in Special Issue 鈥� Visual Governance in Migration, Massari, A. and Triandafyllidou, A. (eds), Ethnicities

Triandafyllidou, A. & Massari, A. (2025) , Ethnicities, Volume 26, Issue 2

(2024). . Comparative Migration Studies, 12(1), 1-20.

(2024). . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1鈥�18.

with Mohlo, J. (2024). , 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, 91福利, Working Paper No. 2023/06 June 2023.

with Achilli, L. (2023). , Achilli L. and Kyle D. (eds), Global Human Smuggling. Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Johns Hopkins University Press.

(2023). , PKI Global Justice Journal, 325-344.

(2024).  (PDF file) 鈥淩eframing Migration: The Use of Visual Communication by Government Institutions鈥�, CERC Migration Policy Brief 19, 91福利.

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

(2021)  IMISCOE/Springer series. 

(2021).  in Sanchez, G. and Achilli, L. (eds) The Illicit Global Economy Discourse.

Digital Scholarship

Massari, A. (2024), , YouTube

Massari, A. (2024),  YouTube

Massari, A. (2024), , YouTube

This project has received funding from the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101024772.