Julien Migozzi
- Assistant Professor, Development Studies
- University Teaching Officer
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About
Julien Migozzi is an economic geographer and an Assistant Professor in Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Before joining Cambridge, he was an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Research Fellow in Finance and Geography at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was also a Lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). He held visiting positions at UC Berkeley (2024-2025) and the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (2023).
Julien obtained his PhD from the University of Grenoble Alpes and his Master’s degree from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he was a student fellow.
Research
Dr Migozzi’s research lies at the intersection of economic geography, urban studies, and economic sociology.
His work examines how digital capitalism transforms markets, cities, and inequalities, with a focus on South Africa and emerging economies. Topics of interest include property, housing, and urban development; finance, digital finance (FinTech), and financialization; platforms, AI, and data politics; class relationships and wealth inequalities. He employs a mixed-methods approach, incorporating ethnographic fieldwork, expert interviews, spatial analysis, and computational social science.
Key publications:
You can access all of Dr Migozzi’s publications on his website: https://jmigozzi.github.io/
Book
Wójcik, D., Iliopoulos, P., Ioannou, S., Keenan, L., Migozzi, J., Monteath, T., Pazitka, V., Torrance, M. and Urban, M., 2024. Atlas of finance: Mapping the global story of money. Yale University Press.
Articles
Migozzi J. (2025) "Scoring high, paying up, gating in: middle-class formation and asset inequalities under digital capitalism in South Africa". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Migozzi, J. (2025). “From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism?”. Journal of Cultural Economy,
Abella D., Martínez JH., Mazzoli M., Migozzi J. et al. (2025) "Exploring the spatial segmentation of housing markets from online listings." EPJ Data Science. 14(1), 34.
Migozzi J. (2024) "The good, the bad and the tenant: Rental platforms renewing racial capitalism in the post-apartheid housing market", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(4), 534-558.
Migozzi J., Urban, M. & Wójcik, D. (2024) "’You should do what India does’: FinTech ecosystems in India reshaping the geography of finance", Geoforum, vol 151.
MigozziJ. (2023) "Digital Technology and the City: New Forms of Urban Segregation in Cape Town?", Metropolitics.
Migozzi J., Urban M. & Wójcik D. (2023) "Urban geographies of financial convergence: situating Indian financial centres across global production and financial networks", Economic Geography, 99(5), 499–525
Migozzi J. (2020) "Selecting Spaces, Classifying People: The Financialization of Housing in the South African City", Housing Policy Debate, 30(4), 640-660.
Book chapters
Migozzi J. “From location to attention: Recoding housing markets for digital capitalism”, in Hynes, Kitchin & Mutter (eds), The Data Politics of Property and Planning, Bristol University Press [forthcoming]
Migozzi J., "Follow the data: computing the algorithmic periphery with credit scores and property values", in Datta A. & Hoefsloot F. (eds.), Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age, UCL Press, p. 165-187