PhD, is a Research Fellow at the University of Cagliari. Her research concerns social and cultural geography and focuses on the uses of urban public spaces, the perception of marginality and socio-spatial injustice, the practices of integration/segregation of international migrants, and the social construction of cultural identity. She is currently involved in empirical video research in the district of Sant’Elia in Cagliari. She is also a member of the editorial committee of the Rivista Geografica Italiana (Florence). Email: silvia.aru@unica.it