Below my most representative research, consultancies and publications about West African transnational migrants
Research grants
Demal te Niew (Go and Come Back)
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
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
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
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