During the first reporting period, the fellow conducted fieldwork in two different locations, a small provincial town in north-eastern Italy and Barcelona in Spain. In the first case, she volunteered in an organisation managing a reception centre for asylum seekers where she had previously served as a coordinator. In the second, she contacted nine different local organisations providing the same service and interviewed several of their employees; she also volunteered in one of them.
After one year, when Covid regulations finally allowed it, she moved to the partner institution in the US. There, she received the planned training, attended six courses, networked with professors and researchers working on similar subjects, and gave two lectures.
During the second reporting period, the researcher moved to the host institution, where she devoted most of her time to reviewing current literature on the project's subjects, systematising the gathered data and writing conference proposals, articles, and book chapters.
In total, the researcher wrote five articles in peer-reviewed international journals (two forthcoming), three book chapters in collective volumes (two forthcoming), two book reviews, and one web-based publication; she presented eleven papers at international conferences; she organised four panels at international conferences, two workshops, three seminars and one international conference at the host institution.
At the time of submitting this report, she is working on a special issue (already approved by the Visual Anthropology editorial board), a collective volume, and a monograph.
Dissemination of research results among a broader audience has been addressed by organising activities with children (board game on migrations), applying visual methods (photographic workshops and upcoming exhibition) and starting the production of a podcast series with Radio Ca' Foscari.
