Manuel Grimaldi
Research Assistant (Università di Torino)
Biography
Manuel Grimaldi is a student of International Relations at the University of Turin, where he obtained a diploma in Migration Studies. Within the framework of the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic (HRMLC), he developed a handbook to help small and medium enterprises comply with basic human rights standards in agricultural production, taking into account the main risks of human rights violations happening in agricultural supply chains.
Research interests
His research interests were built for a long time mainly by working and volunteering in Germany, Lebanon, and Italy. After earning several years of experience at the Massi Shelter in Oulx (the "last stop" of the so-called Balkan route) he started in summer 2022 field research in various rural areas of Italy where mostly migrant people are employed in the agricultural sector. Since September of the same year, his studies focused on the so-called ‘informal settlements’ in the north of Puglia Region allowing him to focus on the forms of economy and cooperation that have emerged outside the towns of the province.
TEAM
Giovanna Astolfo
Co-Investigator
Camillo Boano
Co-Investigator
Edoardo Ciuffreda
Research Assistant
Antonio Di Campli
Research Assistant
Alessandra Faccini
Research Assistant
Manuel Grimaldi
Research Assistant
Stefano Mastromarino
Research Assistant
Richard Lee Peragine
Research Assistant
Antonio Stopani
Co-Investigator
Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.