Benedetta Rossi is a Reader in African Studies in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, School of History and Cultures, of the University of Birmingham. Her work focuses on slavery and emancipation in Africa. Her publications include books and articles on the linkages between emancipation from slavery, labor migration, and planned international development in the Sahara-Sahel. She currently holds a visiting fellowship at Re:Work, a research unit devoted to the study of global labor in Humboldt University, Berlin.