Diana Volpe
Other affiliations
Oxford Department of International Development
Biography
Diana is a Wiener Anspach Postdoctoral fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles' centre of Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale (REPI). Their current research project focuses on the offshore administrative detention and border control between Italy and Albania. They gained their DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, where their research focused on the process of legitimation of outsourcing of migration control operations in the Mediterranean within the Italian political sphere, and the use of migration control discourse for national identity building. Their research has been supported by Graduate Women International, the Luigi Einaudi Foundation, and the Wiener-Anspach Foundation.
They have (co-)taught courses on International Relations, Migration and Development and the Politics of Forced Migration at the University of Oxford.
Diana is also the Managing Editor of the Border Criminologies blog, and student chair of the board of trustees for People and Planet. They hold a BA in Politics and International Relations from University College Dublin, and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford.