Alessandra Buonfino

Alessandra Buonfino was a doctoral researcher at the Centre of International studies, Cambridge University, focusing on the political discourse of immigration in Europe. She was co-author of People Flow (with Tom Bentley and Theo Veenkamp) and managing editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

People flow: migration and Europe

The existing European approach to migration does not match reality or recognise the evolving complexity of human mobility. In our People Flow pamphlet of 2003, openDemocracy and Demos proposed a model that does.

By Tom Bentley, Theo Veenkamp and Alessandra Buonfino

/ 4 Oct 2015

Securitising migration

According to the United Nations, there are more than 180 million international migrants around the world, including refugees equivalent to almost the entire population of Brazil. Lack of opportunities, conflicts,

By Alessandra Buonfino

/ 12 Feb 2004

People Flow: Migration and Europe

Does migration erode or enhance national culture? This question is highly sensitive in many European countries. The problem with the existing European approach to migration is that official distinctions between

By Tom Bentley, Theo Veenkamp and Alessandra Buonfino

/ 30 Apr 2003