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”.