Andrea Verdasco is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (UKRI funded) based at the Thomas Coram Research Unit. She is a social anthropologist with a theoretical interest in the anthropology of forced migration and refugee studies. Her research interests lie at the interstices of motherhood, families, childhood, relatedness, identity and belonging. In her current project entitled 'Family reunification and refugee integration: the impact of the 'deserving refugee mother' she investigates how refugee mothers negotiate and navigate complex bureaucratic systems as mothers and women in the context of the UK. She examines the networks they create and how they negotiate 'deservingness' in their encounters with advocacy workers and frontline workers. In her PhD thesis, she examined how unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee minors who were 'in-between' categories of childhood and adulthood created a sense of belonging in midst of uncertainty. From a methodological perspective, her work is grounded in ethnographic methods through participatory approaches. To date, she has conducted fieldwork in Mozambique, Denmark and England.
Andrea holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen (2018). She has a multi-disciplinary background with an M.Sc., in Migration, Mobility and Development Studies from SOAS (2010) and an MA (2005) and BA (2001) in Translation and Conference Interpretation studies from the University of Geneva and Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid respectively. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a practitioner for several NGOs as well as with IOM Tanzania, UNICEF Mozambique and the Office of Research of UNICEF
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University College London
University, London, United Kingdom
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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