Luigi Achilli

Monografie

2015, Palestinian Refugees and Identity: Nationalism, Politics and the Everyday, I.B. Tauris, London

Curatele e numeri speciali in riviste

2024, War and Fun, War & Society (con De Lauri, A., Jelusic, I., Johais, E., Mogstad, H.)
2024, Migration and Crime in a Divided World: Strategies, Perceptions, and Struggles, The ANNALS of American Academy of Social and Political Science (con Missbach, A. & Alvarez-Velasco, S.), vol. 709, n. 1
2023, Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Johns Hopkins University Press, New York (con Kyle, D.)
2021, Migration, Smuggling and the Illicit Global Economy, Public Anthropologist, vol. 3, n. 1 (con Sanchez, G.)
2020, Critical Insights on Irregular Migration Facilitation, RSCAS-EUI (con Sanchez, G.)
2018, Crimes of Solidarity in Mobility: Alternative Views on Migrant Smuggling, The ANNALS of American Academy of Social and Political Science, vol. 676(1) (con Sanchez, G. & Zhang, S.)
2018, Les camps de réfugiés palestiniens au Proche-Orient: un provisoire qui dure, numero speciale, A-Contrario, 2006/2, 23 (con Oesch, L.)
2008, Pratiche e politiche dell’etnografia, Meltemi, Milano (con De Lauri, A.)

Articoli peer-review

2025, “Criminal Governance at Europe’s Externalized Frontier,” in Bordering and the War on Migration, a cura di Reumert, A. S., Vogt, W., Piot, C., American Ethnologist, Online Collection
2025, “Future Progress and Prospects of the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol,” Transnational Criminal Law Review, 4(1)
2024, “Boko Haram’s ‘Playground’: Exploring the Role of Fun Among Children Associated with Armed Groups in Nigeria,” War & Society
2024, “The missing link: the role of criminal groups in migration governance,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, n. 10
2024, “‘Markets of Dispossession’: how unaccompanied minors navigate their criminalization in Lebanon,” The ANNALS of American Academy of Social and Political Science, vol. 709, n. 1
2024, “Introduction: Migration and Crime in a Divided World,” The ANNALS of American Academy of Social and Political Science (con Missbach, A. & Alvarez-Velasco, S.), vol. 709, n. 1
2024, “New horizons or old barriers? The 2023 EU anti-smuggling directive proposal and human mobility in the Mediterranean,” Mediterranean Politics (con Alagna, F. & Sanchez, G.)
2024, “Caught in the Crossfire: Unravelling the complex interplay of exploitation and agency in children associated with Boko Haram,” Anti-Trafficking Review, n. 22, pp. 12–33
2023, “In search of children's best interest,” International Migration, vol. 61, n. 2, pp. 362–364
2022, “‘Protection’ on my own terms: human smuggling and unaccompanied Syrian minors,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 1, pp. 1–19
2021, “Untangling the knot: human smuggling, terrorism, and transnational organized crime in the Central American route and the Middle East,” Forum on Crime and Society UNODC (con Yates, C.)
2019, “Debunking the smuggler-terrorist nexus: human smuggling and the Islamic State in the Middle East,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 45, n. 5 (con Tinti, A.)
2019, “Beyond legality and illegality: Palestinian informal networks and the ethno-political facilitation of irregular migration from Syria,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (con Abu Samra, M.)
2019, “Waiting for the smuggler: tales across the border,” Public Anthropologist, 1(2), 194–207
2019, “In search of dignity: political economy and nationalism amongst Palestinian camp dwellers in Amman,” Journal of Ethnographic Theory (HAU), 8(3), 672–685
2018, “The ‘good’ smuggler: the ethics and morals of human smuggling among Syrians,” in Crimes of Solidarity in Mobility: Alternative Views on Migrant Smuggling, ANNALS, 676(1), 77–96
2017, “Des espaces d’ambiguïté: les camps de réfugiés palestiniens en Jordanie,” A-Contrario, 2006/2 (23), 17–36 (con Oesch, L.)
2015, “Becoming a Man in al-Wihdat: Masculine Performances in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 47(2), 263–280
2014, “Disengagement from politics: Nationalism, political identity, and the everyday in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan,” Critique of Anthropology, 34(2), 234–257

Articoli in riviste e volumi

2025, “Reconnecting Intellectual Production and Activism: A Palestinian History” (con Mjriam Abu Samra), in Bocco, R. & Ibrahim, S. (a cura di), Decolonizing Palestine: Contemporary Debates, The Graduate Institute
2023, “Enter the Boogeyman: representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration” (con Massari, A.), in Achilli, L. & Kyle, D. (a cura di), Global Human Smuggling. Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Johns Hopkins University Press
2023, “Introduction: Control, Complexity, and Creativity” (con Kyle, D.), in Achilli, L. & Kyle, D. (a cura di), Global Human Smuggling. Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Johns Hopkins University Press
2023, “Narrative: Markets of displacement” (con Wilson, K.), in Jacobsen, K. & Majidi, N. (a cura di), Handbook on Forced Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 326–330
2022, “Human Smuggling in the Mediterranean: A Comparative Analysis of the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Smuggling Routes,” in Savona, E. U., Guerette, R. T., Aziani, A. (a cura di), The Evolution of Illicit Flows: Displacement and Convergence among Transnational Crime, Springer
2021, “The Deep Play: Ethnicity, the Hashemite Monarchy and the Arab Spring in Jordan,” in Maggiolini, P. & Ouahes, I. (a cura di), Minorities and State-Building in the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 151–173
2020, “Human Trafficking” e “Camp,” in De Lauri, A. (a cura di), Humanitarianism: Keywords, Brill, Leiden
2019, “The politics of being ordinary,” in Turner, M. (a cura di), From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘peace’, Routledge, New York
2017, “Smuggling and trafficking in human beings at the time of the Syrian conflict,” in Gebrewold, B. et al. (a cura di), Human Trafficking and Exploitation, Rowman & Littlefield, New York
2017, “Methodological approaches in human smuggling research: Documenting irregular migration facilitation in the Americas and the Middle East,” Migration Policy Practice, 8(2), 21–25 (con Sanchez, G.)
2017, “Neighbouring Host-Countries’ Policies for Syrian Refugees: The Cases of Jordan,” Migration and Mobility, IEMED
2016, “Irregular migration to EU and human smuggling in the Mediterranean: the nexus between organized crime and irregular migration,” in Mobility and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, IEMED
2016, “Back to Syria? Conflicting patterns of mobility among Syrian refugees in Jordan,” Orient I
2015, “La Primavera Araba in Giordania: una lieve brezza o il preludio alla tempesta perfetta,” in Omizzolo, M. & Sodano, P. (a cura di), Migranti e Territori, Ediesse, pp. 371–398 (con Abu Samra, M.)
2010, “Etiqueter dans un espace incertain: le cas des camps de réfugiés palestiniens en Jordanie,” Migrations Société, 22(128), 118–128
2008, “Campi di battaglia e campo dell’etnografo. Etnografia, conflitti, violenza,” in De Lauri, A. & Achilli, L. (a cura di), Pratiche e politiche dell’etnografia, Meltemi, pp. 113–126 (con De Lauri, A.)

Rapporti e policy brief

2025, Conflitti armati e migrazioni forzate: la produzione globale dell’irregolarità, di Luigi Achilli – Rapporto Immigrazione 2025, Caritas e Migrantes
2025, L’immigrazione irregolare in Italia: dinamiche, governance e implicazioni sociali, di Luigi Achilli – Rapporto Immigrazione 2025, Caritas e Migrantes
2025, Fun, Violence, and Survival in Boko Haram, CMI Insights
2024, Targeted by Terrorists: Child Recruitment, Exploitation and Reintegration in Indonesia, Iraq and Nigeria, UNODC, Vienna (con Melotti, G.)
2024, The EU’s new counter-smuggling directive proposal: persisting challenges and recommendations towards implementation (con Sanchez, G. & Alagna, F.)
2022, Analysis of migration trends of Palestine refugees: 2018–2022, UNRWA (con Hanafi, S.)
2022, Security costs: How the EU’s exclusionary migration policies place people on the move toward Italy and Greece at greater risk – a quantitative analysis, Mixed Migration Centre (con Linekar, J.)
2021, Children and youth across migrant routes in West and North Africa, Mixed Migration Centre (con Massari, A.)
2020, Covid-19 in Gaza: Community Perspectives on the Pandemic, ELHRA & University of Bath (con Hart, J., Procter, C. & Al-Rozzi, M.)
2020, Stranded: The impacts of COVID-19 on irregular migration and migrant smuggling, Policy Briefs 2020/20, Migration Policy Centre (con Sanchez, G.)
2019, “Migrant smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean: The case of children,” in Achilli, L. & Sanchez, G., Critical Insights on Irregular Migration Facilitation, RSCAS-EUI, Firenze, UNODC
2019, Work toward integration: labour inclusion of migrants in Mexico, Policy Briefs 2019/26, Migration Policy Centre (con Negro, V.)
2018, Reforming Dublin, in ISPI, Building Trust, MED 4th Edition
2018, The human smuggling industry: nuances and complexities, The University of Texas at El Paso, BTI Institute, DHS Symposium Series 2018/14
2018, A study of the communication channels used by migrants and asylum seekers in Italy, with a particular focus on online and social media, Commissione Europea (Achilli et al.)
2017, On My Own: Protection challenges for unaccompanied and separated children in Jordan, Lebanon and Greece, INTERSOS-MMP
2017, What Does It Mean to Disrupt the Business Models of People Smugglers?, Migration Policy Centre (EUI), policy brief (con Sanchez, G.)
2016, Migrants’ Profiles, Drivers of Migration and Migratory Trends, IOM & DfID (Achilli et al.)
2016, In rotta verso l’Europa: note di campo sugli spostamenti dei richiedenti asilo siriani verso l’Unione Europea, NEODEMOS
2016, Tariq al-Euroba: Displacement Trends of Syrian Asylum Seekers to the EU, MPC Research Report 2016/01
2015, The smuggler: hero or felon?, Migration Policy Centre (EUI), policy brief
2015, Syrian Refugees in Jordan: a Reality Check, Migration Policy Centre (EUI), policy brief
2014, The Social Life of Nutrition among Syrian Refugees in Jordan, ENN, numero speciale
2011, Between Football and Islam, CBRL Bulletin, n. 5, pp. 94–95
2009, Mobile children: from “victims” to “actors”, JEUDA, n. 119, pp. 1–4

Dal 2013 Achilli scrive regolarmente per la stampa, blog e riviste online; i suoi contributi sono apparsi, tra gli altri, su The Conversation, La Repubblica, Public Anthropologist, Jadaliyya, Doppiozero, Analist, Border Criminologies, openDemocracy, AllegraLab.