Daniele Saracino

At the start of my academic career, I was a research associate at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn, where I received my doctorate in 2019. Until 2024, I was a lecturer at the Department of Government at the University of Essex (UK), after which I moved back to Germany to be a fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University Lüneburg (where I continue to teach) before joining bicc as a researcher in the forced migration team. I specialise in European Union studies and the politics of migration, including forced displacement, asylum and refugee governance, border controls, and the question of solidarity and fair responsibility-sharing. I have also gathered expertise on the political system of the European Union and on German Politics. In my work, I combine both comparative and theoretical approaches as well as aiming for interdisciplinarity. I have led research projects on migration governance in Southern Africa as well as on migratory movements from Africa to Europe during the Arab Spring. My work has been published in a variety of ways like peer-reviewed journals, policy briefs, blog posts, and media outlets.