Author: Alice Elliot

Alice Elliot is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of Anthropology of University College London (UCL). A social anthropologist, she has been conducting ethnographic research since 2006 between North Africa and Europe on the social and intimate dimensions of migration. She is at present preparing a book titled provisionally 'Reckoning with the outside: migration and the imagination of life in Morocco', which explores how migration has come to penetrate towns, households and people in an area of the world marked by decades of transnational movement.

Alice Elliot

Alice Elliot is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of Anthropology of University College London (UCL). A social anthropologist, she has been conducting ethnographic research since 2006 between North Africa and Europe on the social and intimate dimensions of migration. She is at present preparing a book titled provisionally 'Reckoning with the outside: migration and the imagination of life in Morocco', which explores how migration has come to penetrate towns, households and people in an area of the world marked by decades of transnational movement.

Essay One-Shots

Forceful Hope

April, 2016 / By Alice Elliot

When I was recently asked to participate in UCL’s Refuge in a Moving World Seminar Series on a panel titled […]

Crisis on the opposite shore – Notes from the field on crisis, revolution, and the possible

August, 2015 / By Alice Elliot

This piece is a from-the-field reflection on the ways in which grand events and processes such as global financial crises