Sara Prestianni (1979) is a specialist in international migration policies. She is currently the Head of the Thematic Program Unit for Euromed Rights, in the Brussels office.
From 2012 to 2019 she worked for Associazione Ricreativa Culturale Italiana, ARCI, the biggest Italian association working in the field of reception and integration.
Previously, she did research on migration in the Mediterranean space and in the Sahel region, and conducted field missions along the internal and external borders of this area. Prestianni contributed to several reports on the violation of the human rights at the borders. With Michel Agier, she published “Je me suis refugié la! Bords de route en exil” (Ed. Donner Lieu 2011) and contributed to the collective book A world of camps (Ed. La Découverte, 2014).