Dr Julien Migozzi

  • Assistant Professor in Development Studies
  • Centre of Development Studies
  • Fixed Term Lecturer
Dr Julien Migozzi

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Julien Migozzi is an Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the Department of Politics and International Studies.

Before joining Cambridge, Julien was an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was also a Research Associate in Finance and Geography at Oxford University, and a Lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). He held visiting positions at UC Berkeley (2024-2025) and at the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town, 2023).

Julien completed his PhD at the University of Grenoble Alpes and obtained his Master’s degree from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he was a student fellow.

Julien is a committee member of the Global Network in Financial Geography (FinGeo).

Research

Dr Migozzi’s research lies at the intersection of economic geography, urban studies, and economic sociology. His work examines how digital technology transforms markets, cities and inequalities, with a particular focus on property and finance. Topics of interest include real estate platforms (PropTech), financial technologies (FinTech); social stratification; urban segregation. He employs a mixed-methods approach, incorporating ethnographic fieldwork, expert interviews, spatial analysis, and computational social science.

Key publications: 

Books

  • Julien is a co-author of the Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money (Yale University Press, 2024), which won the Best Book in Economics at the Professional and Scholarly Excellence Awards, the Gold Medal at the Axiom Business Book Awards, and the first prize at the British Cartographic Society Awards. 

Selection of Articles

  • Migozzi, J., and D. Wójcik. (2026) “Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
  • Fields D & Migozzi J. (2026) "Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Migozzi J. (2020) "Selecting Spaces, Classifying People: The Financialization of Housing in the South African City", Housing Policy Debate.

Book Chapters

  • Migozzi J. (2026) “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.
  • Migozzi J., (2025) "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.

You can see more detail of Dr Migozzi's publications on his website here. https://jmigozzi.github.io/publications/

Teaching and supervision

Julien teaches a paper on digital capitalism for the MPhil in Development Studies.