Dr Alice Elliot
Staff details
Alice Elliot works in North Africa and Europe on the social and intimate dimensions of Mediterranean migrations. She works in Morocco, Tunisia, and Italy on themes of gender, kinship, and intimacy; Islam and theological/political imagination; hope, safety, and policing.
Before joining Goldsmiths, Alice was a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at UCL, and a Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven.
Alice is currently project lead of "Profiling Inside Out: Surveillance, Resistance, Collaboration", a social project that opens spaces for reflection, collaboration, and action on racial profiling in Italy and the UK.
Alice convenes the MA in Social Anthropology, and is co-Chair of the Goldsmiths Anthropology Learning and Teaching Committee.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Anthropology, UCL 2012
Teaching and Supervision
Publications and research outputs
Book
Elliot, Alice. 2021. The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253054746
Edited Book
Elliot, Alice; Norum, Roger and Salazar, Noel B., eds. 2017. Methodologies of mobility: ethnography and experiment. New York: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78533-480-1
Edited Journal
Elliot, Alice and Menin, Laura, eds. 2018. Special Section: Anthropologies of Destiny, HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1-2). 2049-1115
Book Section
Elliot, Alice. 2022. Repeating manhood: migration and the unmaking of men in Morocco. In: Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina Isidoros, eds. Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions in Precarious Times. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 97-115. ISBN 9780253058928
Elliot, Alice. 2020. Mediterranean distinctions: forced migration, forceful hope, and the analytics of desperation. In: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, ed. Refuge in a Moving World: Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines. London: UCL Press, pp. 111-122. ISBN 9781787353190
Salazar, Noel B.; Elliot, Alice and Norum, Roger. 2017. Studying mobilities: theoretical notes and methodological queries. In: Alice Elliot; Roger Norum and Noel B. Salazar, eds. Methodologies of mobility: ethnography and experiment. New York: Berghahn, pp. 1-24. ISBN 978-1-78533-480-1
Elliot, Alice. 2016. Gender. In: Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram, eds. Keywords of mobility: critical engagements. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 73-92. ISBN 9781785331466
Elliot, Alice. 2011. E per fortuna o purtroppo lo sono: percorsi identitari e appartenenze plurime di giovani di origine marocchina e albanese. Una ricerca etnografica. In: Chiara Volpato, ed. Nuovi cittadini: I giovani immigrati tra accoglienza e rifiuto. Milan: Unicopoli, pp. 47-84.
Article
Elliot, Alice. 2021. Trickster hospitality: A Moroccan escalation act. History and Anthropology, 32(1), pp. 129-141. ISSN 0275-7206
Elliot, Alice and Menin, Laura. 2018. For an anthropology of destiny. HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8(1/2), pp. 292-299.
Elliot, Alice. 2016. The makeup of destiny: Predestination and the labor of hope in a Moroccan emigrant town. American Ethnologist, 43(3), pp. 488-499. ISSN 0094-0496
Elliot, Alice. 2016. Forceful Hope. Allegra Lab,
Elliot, Alice. 2016. Paused subjects: Waiting for migration in North Africa. Time & Society, 25(1), pp. 102-116. ISSN 0961-463X
Elliot, Alice. 2015. Crisis on the opposite shore: Notes from the field on crisis, revolution, and the possible. Allegra Lab,
Mondain, N; Randall, S; Diagne, A and Elliot, Alice. 2012. Les effets de l’émigration masculine sur la situation des femmes au Sénégal: renforcement ou ébranlement des équilibres traditionnels? Autrepart: revue de sciences sociales au Sud, 61, pp. 81-98.
Elliot, Alice. 2009. Legal, social and intimate belonging: Moroccan and Albanian second generation migrants in Italy. UCL Anthropology Working Papers, 5,
Further profile content
Featured publications
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Migration Research Network
Conferences and talks
PhD students
Paaras Abbas. Combatting coercive control in Covid-19: Perspectives from British-Pakistani NGO workers
Larisa Carranza. San Romero: mapping memories, stories and bodies in contemporary El Salvador
Thomas Fearon. Making Space for God: Mediation and Aspiration among young Christians in London
Marzieh Kaivanara. ‘I did it for my self:’ an ethnographic study of cosmetic surgery in Tehran, Iran
Katya Lachowicz. Politics of Matter: Constellations of Landscape, Utopianism and Value in Southern Spain
Rambisayi Marufu. Intimate geographies: weaving threads of diasporic intimacy in london’s Black hair salons
Daisy Swift. Togetherness: Reflections of a band in lockdown
