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Introduction
I'm a member of the CPS Department (Culutres, Politics and Society) Università di Torino. I did extensive research on Italian anthropology in colonial Eritrea and Ethiopia, inter-racial sexual relations and racism. I subsequently researched specific aspects of current human mobilities focusing on asylum seekers' and refugees' reception policies and practices, and on the the role of credibility in the refugee status determination procedure.
https://unito.academia.edu/BarbaraSorgoni
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November 2014 - May 2020
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- Professor (Associate)
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- Introduction to cultural anthropology (BA Level) Anthropology of Migrations (MA Level) Laboratory on how to conceive and write up an academic dissertation (BA Level) Member of the PhD Board SPAE (Scienze Psicologiche, Antropologiche e dell'Educazione)
January 2004 - July 2014
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- Lecturer
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- Introduction to Cultural antropologi (B.A. Level)) Antropology of Migrations (M.A. Level)
September 2002 - December 2003
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- Temporary Lecturer
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- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (B.A. Level)
Education
January 1993 - July 1996
September 1992 - August 1993
September 1984 - December 1990
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Publications (26)
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My chapter focuses on the first level of appeal in the Italian refugee status determination procedure. I use the “credibility issue” as a lens through which to observe how this notion was employed at the tribunals of Bologna and Turin, simultaneously as a core issue...
Le narrazioni di fuga e di persecuzione sono progressivamente divenute il luogo all’interno del quale passare al setaccio i fatti narrati alla ricerca di omissioni, incongruenze o incoerenze, al fine di verificare la generale credibilità del racconto. In alcuni casi, il giudizio sull’attendibilità della storia – o più in generale del soggetto che r...
Starting from the many unique difficulties any international protection procedure poses to all the subjects caught in it, in this essay I explore in particular the issue of (linguistic) translation and the concept of evidence as employed in the asylum procedure. Acknowledging how asylum oral narratives acquire meaning in relation to the specific fo...
In the current public debate on asylum and migration, there is a growing emphasis on the need to protect the most vulnerable - such as minors, pregnant women, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities. The concept of ‘vulnerability’ is indeed playing an increasingly central role in migration policies. However, there is no unanimous understanding o...
Recensione al testo di Marco Buttino, con alcune considerazioni sulla storia della contemporaneità come storia attuale e sul suo uso pubblico; sull'intreccio tra migrazioni interne e internazionali; sull'assenza di politiche di regolarizzazione del lavoro migrante; sula contiguità tra campi al Sud e "centri" al Nord; e sulle forme di attivismo poli...
Commenti a “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” di Antonino Colajanni, con contributi di Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L....
Il Novecento è stato spesso definito l'età dei rifugiati. Ma chi sono i rifugiati? Più precisamente, come si diventa rifugiati o, al contrario, "clandestini"? E che cosa distingue i migranti di ieri dai rifugiati di oggi? Invece di assumere queste categorie come dati di fatto capaci di spiegare le attuali traiettorie di mobilità, il libro ne analiz...
This article analyzes the role increasingly played by oral testimony in asylum procedures in the years 2011–2013, when the “Arab spring” and the war on Libya caused a sudden increase in the number of migrants entering Italy, as well as a peak in rejections. Drawing from ethnographic cases, I suggest that in Italy this shift was based on assumptions...
Book review of Carlo Capello, Pietro Cingolani, Francesco Vietti, Etnografia delle migrazioni. Temi e metodi di ricerca, Roma, Carocci, 2014, pp. 133.
Applying for asylum. Narratives, translation, and textualization This essay deals with the initial administrative steps of a refugee status determination procedure in Italy, by focusing on the bureaucratic interaction between an asylum seeker and institutional subjects I could observe during my fieldwork on international protection's procedures. Dr...
In 1938 the regime's popular periodical La Difesa della Razza published the portrait of Saartjie Baartman (a Khoisan woman known to the western world as ‘The Hottentot Venus’) to discourage miscegenation in the empire of Italian East Africa. But by 1938, Italian public and scientific interest in the Hottentot Venus had long faded away. In addition,...
La letteratura internazionale che ha concentrato l’analisi sui nessi di diversa natura tra antropologia e colonialismo è oramai molto cospicua, databile già agli anni Settanta del Novecento e rivolta a quasi tutte le ex colonie britanniche, francesi, olandesi e, in minor misura, belghe. All’interno di questa vasta letteratura esistono degli indiriz...
In the past two decades international anthropological critique has focused on issues such as: the discipline's colonial roots, how the concept of culture is embedded in the colonial milieu, the relationship between the texts of academic anthropologists and those produced by the men on the spot, and finally how administrators/ethnographers contribut...
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Could anybody suggest ethnographic literature or single cases that deal with the issue of how specific non-western societies dealt with the inclusion of foreign individuals or groups?
This is because I am an anthropologist doing research on asylum and refugee status determination procedure in Italy, and my german is unfortunately very basic.....
Thank you,
barbara
ciao Dany spero che tu stia bene! Mi racconti un po' di più su questo progetto che, sì, mi interessa? Magari in una mail (sono più brava con le lettere semi-tradizionali). Un abbraccio, B
