Maria Pisani is
a Maltese academic and activist. She is the co-founder and director of Integra Foundation, Malta. Maria is a lecturer at the University of Malta. Her ongoing involvement in the field provides an opportunity to keep the dialectic relationship between theory and practice alive, providing the space for critical knowledge production towards social transformation. Maria is an Editorial Board Member on the international journal Disability and the Global South and Guest Editor of the special issue, ‘Disability, Asylum and Migration’. Maria has published extensively in international journals and contributed to edited texts. Her research interests include forced migration with a special focus on gender, ‘race’ and colonialism, youth, national identity and citizenship and intersectionality. She combines this work with her interest in critical pedagogy and engaging praxis as a project of social transformation towards social justice.