Department of Development Studies
Dr Paolo Novak
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Development Studies Senior Lecturer in Development Studies Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute Centre for the Study of Pakistan Academic Staff, Centre for the Study of Pakistan Research Cluster Member Research Cluster Member
- Department
- Department of Development Studies
- Qualifications
- MSc, PhD (London)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 368
- Email address
- pn4@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 020 7898 4214
- Support hours
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Biography
Paolo has degrees in Business and International Finance (Bocconi, Milan) and Development Studies
(SOAS) and has worked for brokerage firms, investment banks, NGOs and UNHCR, before joining
SOAS.
Research interests
Paolo’s research is concerned with the conceptual and contextual relation between borders,
migration and development, and focuses on the contested geographies produced by such relation
(territoriality, scale; spatialities and temporalities of borders and migration; legal/policy labels and
political subjectivities); and on processes of legal and institutional change associated to it (refugee
law and refugee regime; asylum reception systems; humanitarianism). Paolo has conducted field
research in Peshawar (Pakistan), Macerata (Italy), Meghalaya (India), Cairo (Egypt). His current
research project is titled: “Asylum seeker’s reception: taxonomies and location”.
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Karen Schouw Iversen | Humanitarian Activist Citizens: Desplazado Protests and State Humanitarianism in Bogotá, Colombia |
| Dr Hassan Ould Moctar | EU Border Externalisation and the Postcolonial Conditioning of Contemporary Capitalism in Mauritania |
| Christian Sowa | The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title) |
Publications
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