Federica Tarabusi is Associate Professor at the Department of Education Studies, where she teaches Cultural Anthropology and Anthropology of Migration. She is actually part of the board of the Italian Society for Applied Anthropology (SIAA) and co-founder of SIAA-AppLab, Laboratorio di Antropologia Applicata ai servizi educativi, sociali e sanitari; part of the academic board of the Doctoral program Patrimonio immateriale nell'innovazione socio-culturale; member of the scientific board of both the Centre of Gender and Education Studies (CSGE) and the research center on Mobility Diversity and social Inclusion (MODI) at the Department of Education Studies.
Her research interests include development policies, anthropology of aid and decentralized cooperation, ethnography of multiculturalism, local reception policies towards migrants, second generation immigrants, gender and migration, collaborative and applied anthropology. She has undertaken ethnographic research in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Since 2018-2019 she is the director of the MA program in "International cooperation and educational inclusion: new professional challenges". She belongs to the Editorial Management of Rivista di Antropologia contemporanea, the scientific board of Antropologia series “Contaminazioni” (Licosia editore) and Antropologia Culturale series "Interculture", (Junior Editore).
She has published 3 monographs and numerous articles in Italian (Etnoantropologia, Antropologia, Lares, l'Uomo, Antropologia Pubblica, Dada, Educazione Interculturale, Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, AG-ABOUT GENDER, Mondi Migranti, Antropologia Pubblica, Autonomie Locali e servizi sociali) and international journals (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, FOCAAL - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology; Human Organization; JUNCO – Journal of Universities and International Development Cooperation). She is the co-editor of 4 journal issues and two edited books. Among her recent publications one counts the following articles: Building boundaries in making policies. Exploring the local construction of migrants in multicultural Italy (2022); (con Z.T. Lofranco) Balcanismo e costruzione sociale delle migrazioni forzate in Italia: esplorazioni antropologiche (2021); Development, Balkanism, and new (im)moralities in postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina (2020).
Research
2019-2022 Applied and ethnographic works within two local reception services (Emilia-Romagna)
2019 Collaboration to the research project “GenerAzioni: percorsi di empowerment contro discriminazioni e violenza”, Emilia-Romagna region, Centro Donna Giustizia Ferrara.
2018 Collaborative research project “Fare la differenza: consapevolezza, autonomia e decisione per le scelte future. Una ricerca-azione con donne migranti in Romagna”, CSGE, Emilia-Romagna region.
2018-2020. Collaboration to Rise (ROMA Inclusive School Experiences) - Justice and Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) (2018-2020), Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
2014-2015 Collaboration to “Di&Di More Diversity and less Discrimination on the Labour Market” (LLP), IECOB (Istituto per l’Europa Centro-orientale e Balcanica), University of Bologna.
2012-2014. Collaboration to Comenius “SAS- Success at School through Volunteering”" (Project n. 526187-LLP), Assfam, Iriv, Ergo Institute, University of Bologna, University of Nothampton, Cermes.
2011-2012 Research project "Adolescenti stranieri", Regione Emilia-Romagna, Spazio Giovani Azienda USL di Bologna.
2011-2012 Collaboration to the research project “Gender, Education Relationships and Childhood” (CSGE/ UNIBO - Emilia-Romagna Region)
2009-2012 Fellow Researcher in Cultural Anthropology; Research project “Etnografia urbana: nuovi territori dell’esclusione”, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
2009-2010 Research project "Processi di genere nel percorso scolastico superiore: problematiche e potenzialità educative", Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
2007-2009 Fellow Researcher on second generations' experiences in local welfare services, (Bologna) within the PRIN research "Urban contexts, migration processes and young migrants", Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
2004-2007 Multisited ethnography between Italy (Rimini, Bologna) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Bihać, Tuzla, Bašigovci, Banja Luka, Prijedor, Prnjavor). Doctoral studies in Antropologia ed Epistemologia della complessità, Università di Bergamo.
