Elia Vitturini is postdoctoral researcher on the project “Traces of Mobility, Violence and Solidarity: Reconceptualizing Cultural Heritage through the Lens of Migration”, University of Milan. He investigates migration memories and social relationships of Somalis in Italy. In 2017, he received his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Milan-Bicocca for a historical ethnographic research project on social stratification and minority groups in Somaliland (The Gaboye of Somaliland: The Historical Process of Emancipation and Marginalisation, Milan, Ledizioni, 2023). Until 2022, he carried out research on the migration-development nexus, multi-sited villages, and the Euro-African migration regime in The Gambia as a member of “MigChoice,” a project of the University of Birmingham and the University of Milan-Bicocca, and the PRIN 2017 project “Genealogies of African Freedoms” (University of Turin).
