Profile
Giuliano Beniamino Fleri

Giuliano FLERI

Postdoctoral Researcher
Spoken languages
Italian, French, English
Areas of expertise
  • Nationalism
  • International migration
  • Refugees
  • History and politics of international organisations
Giuliano Fleri is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center of Digital Humanities & Multilateralism, where he is currently conducting research on Geneva's international archives. He earned his PhD in International History from the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2023, with a dissertation on 20th-century migration patterns between Tunisia and Italy. Between 2018 and 2024, Giuliano worked on several projects as  consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Records and Archives Section. In 2021, he was a SNF visiting fellow at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie in Berlin. Presently, he is working on his forthcoming monograph, 'People Among Nations. Migrations and Allegiances between Sicily and Tunisia 1900s-1970s' slated for publication by Brill Publishers.
 
 

Recent Publications

  • (2022) The (Re)Birth of a Mediterranean Migration System. The Case of Tunisian Migration in Sicily, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 27, Issue 4; 
  • (2021) Fili invisibili. L'origine della presenza tunisina in Sicilia, in D. Di Sanzo, Lavori Migranti. Storia, esperienze e conflitti dal secondo dopoguerra ai giorni nostri, Potenza, Edizioni Le Penseur, pp. 219-38 ; 
  • (2019) Fabbricare l’emergenza. Le radici delle rotte mediterranee verso l’Italia, Dialoghi Mediterranei