Dr Lucrezia Canzutti is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of War Studies. Prior to starting her fellowship, she was a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project ‘Security Flows’ (led by Prof. Claudia Aradau) and a Lecturer in the Politics of Immigration at Newcastle University.

Lucrezia’s research is situated at the intersection of international relations, critical security studies and critical migration studies. Her work has been published in high-impact journals such as Political Geography, International Political Sociology, Environment and Planning C, Global Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Lucrezia’s research draws on a range of qualitative methods, including ethnography, archival research, oral histories, and creative practice. She is committed to collaborative and engaged research and has regularly worked with practitioners, artists and NGOs.

Research Interests

• Critical migration studies
• Borders and bordering mechanisms
• Politics of Violence
• Data and Archives
• Migrant resistance and refusal

Lucrezia’s research interests include (digital) borders, migration, violence, and data and archival practices. She has worked in different geographical contexts in both the ‘Global North’ (Italy, Spain, the UK) and the ‘Global South’ (Cambodia). Her current research, titled ‘Archives of Noncitizenship: Violence, Erasure and (Im)mobility in Cambodia’, offers a novel conceptualisation of Noncitizenship as a project of racial exclusion and erasure that sits on a continuum of state violence. Foregrounding the temporal, material and spatial dimensions of Noncitizenship, Lucrezia’s project asks how erasure can be evidenced and analysed, how it morphs over time, and how it is navigated and countered by those targeted by it.

Selected Publications

• Canzutti, L., & Aradau, C. (2024). Collecting, assembling, ordering: Border politics and the invisible data work of asylum. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23996544241230189
• Canzutti, L., & Tazzioli, M. (2023). Digital–nondigital assemblages: Data, paper trails, and migrants’ scattered subjectivities at the border. International Political Sociology. https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/17/3/olad014/7259756
• Aradau, C., & Canzutti, L. (2022). Asylum, Borders, and the Politics of Violence: From Suspicion to Cruelty. Global Studies Quarterly. https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/2/2/ksab041/6514224
• Canzutti, L. (2019), Co-Producing liminality: Cambodia and Vietnam's ‘shared custody’ of the Vietnamese diaspora in Cambodia. Political Geography. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629818301434
• Canzutti, L. (2019) Precarious (non-)citizens: a historical analysis of ethnic Vietnamese’ access to citizenship in Cambodia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-21.

For an up-to-date list of publications, see Lucrezia’s PURE Page.