Country of residence

Italy

Brief introduction

PhD in Political Science and International Relations (2015), Research Fellow

Education

MSc in Urban and Territorial Strategy, Cum Laude, Class of 2010, Sciences Po Paris

Academic profile

Ethnography shows that after the collapse of totalitarianism in Romania (Tichindeleanu, 2009), getting by in postcommunism, underpinned by the “permanent transition” model (Sirbu and Polgar, 2009), has had profound consequences on the subjective experiences of the most vulnerable and exposed social groups. Less analyzed have been the subjective experiences of suffering in migration, the context of structural violence provided by the EU’s enlargement, underpinned by imperial and colonial logics (Borocz, 2001; Buchowski, 2006; Boatca, 2009). Haunted by social and personal disruption during twenty years of crafting of neoliberalism (Ban, 2011), people could chose migration and spirituality as narrow tactics of survival and creativity. My ethnographic investigation, resulting from over a year of multisited fieldwork between Turin (Italy) and the villages of Vicovu de Sus, Ticvaniu-Mare, Oravița (Romania) focuses on the biographies of Pentecostal converts among Romanian and Romanian Roma migrants in Turin. Attempting to link several theoretical frameworks I aim to examine the way in which the Pentecostal system of belief enables the crafting of individual and collective politics of healing.

Publications

• « Migration, embodied suffering and healing. Ethnographic inquiries among Romanian and Romanian Roma pentecostal communities in Torino »,  accepted for the SMA/EASA/Medical Anthropology Network Joint Conference,  12 june – 14 june, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
• G. Costa, M. Marra, N. Zengarini, C. Rubiolo, «Implications of the EURO-GBD-SE results withregard to target setting in social determinants of health at the EU and Member States level », in The reduction of health inequalities in Europe, Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• « Corpo, lavoro, malattia: sfruttamento quotidiano ed economia politica della sofferenza nei mercati del lavoro informali del torinese. Per un'etnografia della violenza ordinaria », communication  School of Social and Human Sciences conference « La cittadinanza quale dispositivo di inclusione/esclusione », Università di Torino, 30 march 2012

Keywords

Romanian and Romanian Roma migrants, Embodiment, Social Suffering, Pentecostalism, EU eastern enlargement

Contact

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