Lecturer at the University of Bologna since 2021, she carries out her research on migration and the memory of political violence. The research interests are focused in particular on migration policies and management, the claims of people on the move and of the families and victims of armed conflict, and the methodologies of ethnographic research. She investigated in Ghana, Morocco, Spain, Italy and Peru.
Education
In 2013, she graduated in Anthropological Sciences at the University of Bologna; in 2015 she graduated with a master in Anthropology and History of the Contemporary World at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In 2022, she deepened her training with a specialization course on NGOs and human rights protection at the University of Roma Tre and, in general, with several courses on human rights, cooperation, communication and design.
Academic work
She is an associate researcher at the IDEHPUCP - Instituto de Democracia y derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Peru. Since 2022, she has been a member of the research group Laboratorio di Etno-Antropologia of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and of ANPIA. Since 2020, she has been a member of the interdisciplinary research group CAMINAR - Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas.
From 2020 to 2022, she was coordinator of the research area on migration and human trafficking of IDEHPUCP, where she carried out and coordinated as research:
◦ Venezuelan teenagers unaccompanied: migration trajectories to the challenge of gender violence and access to social services in Peru| 2021-2023, funding source: PUCP
◦ Xenophobia and Integration of Venezuelan Migrants on Twitter and in the media in Peru during 2021 | 2021-2022
◦ Capacity-building of the education sector to promote schools free of xenophobia | 2021-2022, funding source: OIM
◦ Evaluation of the Curriculum for Training and Improvement of Private Security in Peru: Towards the Incorporation of International Human Rights Standards | 2020-2022, funding source: DCAF
◦ Study on violence against indigenous environmental defenders in Peru | 2021-2022
◦ Human trafficking and migration in times of pandemic by COVID-19 in Peru | 2021, funding source: UNODC
◦ Discrimination against the Venezuelan population: the role of the media and political authorities in the construction of stereotypes and beliefs | 2021, funding source: GIZ
◦ Information collection, analysis, and systematization service for a publication on the standards of the Inter-American System of Human Rights (ISHR), in the area of trafficking in persons in migration contexts | 2020-2021, funding source: UNODC
◦ Strengthening the capacity of shelters for the psychosocial accompaniment of Venezuelan migrants in Peru | 2020-2021, funding source: FCIL
◦ Indigenous governance and political participation in Peru. Search for missing persons: new narratives and capacities for political advocacy for peace | 2019-2020, funding source: Ford Foundation
For academic publications and participation in conferences: ORCID 0000-0002-6797-8949
Teaching
Since 2021, she has been teaching at the Specialisation Course for teachers of kids with special needs, with a Laboratory on the Didactic of Anthropological Area, for Primary School at the University of Bologna.
She organizes and coordinates seminars and panels on her disciplines.
Other activities
She collaborates with CILD - Italian Coalition for Civil Rights and Freedom.
In Peru, she coordinated the human mobility group of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Peru, the area of institutional relations and design of the Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Peru (IDEHPUCP) and was a consultant for the Lugar de la Memoria y de la Tolerancia Social of the Ministry of Culture of Peru (2019-2022).
In Italy, she co-founded startups and associations, and she worked at the Fondazione Scuola di Pace di Monte Sole 2014-2019).
