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  Giulia Sinatti

West African migrants

Below my most representative research, consultancies and publications about West African transnational migrants

Research grants

Demal te Niew (Go and Come Back) 
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This project on return migration between Italy and Senegal used scientific research to inform the production of a web-documentary.​
Donor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, European Journalism Grant
Gender, Migration and Social Justice
​In this project I explored how masculinity and gender roles are renegotiated across borders using my earlier research data on Senegalese migrants and their families back home.
​Donor: IDRC

Consultancies

Irregular Migration from Africa to Europe
This desk-research assignment collected and analyzed background knowledge on illegal maritime migration routes from West Africa to the Spanish Canary islands. It informed the design of humanitarian interventions in the region.
​Client: Caritas International

Publications

Sinatti, G. (2014). “Masculinities and intersectionality in migration: Transnational Wolof migrants negotiating manhood and gendered family roles.” Truong, T.D., D. Gasper, et al., Eds. Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Security. Berlin – Heidelberg – New York, Springer: 215-226.
Sinatti, G. (2011). “‘Mobile transmigrants’ or ‘unsettled returnees’? Myth of return and permanent resettlement among Senegalese migrants.” Population Space and Place 17(2): 153-166.
Sinatti, G. (2008). “The making of urban translocalities: Senegalese migrants in Dakar and Zingonia.” Smith, M.P. & J. Eade, Eds. Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities, New Brunswick (NJ) and London, Transaction Publishers: 61-76.
Sinatti, G. (2006). “Diasporic cosmopolitanism and conservative translocalism: Narratives of nation among Senegalese migrants in Italy.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 6(3): 30-50.

Photo: Giulia Sinatti, Zingonia (Italy) 2004
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