Gabriela
Mezzanotti
Dr Gabriela Mezzanotti is Associate Professor in Social Sciences at the University of South-Eastern Norway and a Lawyer. She is the co-leader of USN’s research group “Human Rights and Diversities”. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and a MA degree in International Law. She chaired the UNHCR Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair at Unisinos University (Brazil) for 8 years. Her research addresses critical discourse studies, critical decolonial and intersectional approaches to rights and policies related to power, human rights and migration. She is a human rights activist and has a wide range of policy and practice-based experiences within migration and minorities contexts with intergovernmental bodies and NGOs in Latin America. She is also the former coordinator of the International Relations BA Program and the Executive Graduate Program in International Relations and Diplomacy at Unisinos University in Brazil. She is a former representative member of COMIRAT (Rio Grande do Sul State Committee for Migrants, Refugees, Stateless Persons, and Human Trafficking Survivors) and COMIRAT/POA (The city of Porto Alegre Committee for Migrants, Refugees, Stateless Persons, and Human Trafficking Survivors). She is a former member of NEABI (Afro descendants and Indigenous studies centre at Unisinos University) and a former member of its United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent Internal Commission. Mezzanotti is a former Associate Editor for the Human Rights Education Review (HRER/USN). She was a visiting faculty at the Federal Judges Superior School, Brazil, and, more recently, at the Institute of Regional Studies, Visiting Professors Programme at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and at the Visiting Professors Program at the PhD Program in Society, Culture, and Borders, State University of West Parana, Brazil. Her most recent publications address critical and decolonial views on the racialization of Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples on the move, the criminalization of humanitarian aid, migrant detention, refugee protection in Latin America and urban violence in Brazil.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2234 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7801-8903 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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Scope
Roles
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University of South-Eastern Norway
University, Drammen, Norway
Dr. Associate Professor -
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
University, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
Associate Professor -
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
Other, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
Associate Professor
Research
From transnational to trans-Indigenous: a critical analysis of the role of categorization and everyday coloniality in Indigenous mobilities
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, João Carlos Jarochinski Silva |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
From Religious Populism to Civil Religion: a Discourse Analysis of Bolsonaro’s and Lula’s Inaugural and Victory Speeches
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Ole Jakob Løland |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Latin American Religions | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Indigenous Peoples on the Move: Intersectional Invisibility and the Quest for Pluriversal Human Rights for Indigenous Migrants from Venezuela in Brazil
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Human Rights | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reflections on Migrants in Privatized Detention in the United States and the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reflections on Migrants in Privatized Detention in the United States and the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Power, Vulnerability, and the Effects of COVID-19 on Migrants Held by the Detention Industry in the United States
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Power, Vulnerability, and the Effects of COVID-19 on Migrants Held by the Detention Industry in the United States
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway
| Authors | Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Gabriela Mezzanotti |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway
| Authors | Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Gabriela Mezzanotti |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
LATIN AMERICA AND REFUGEE PROTECTION Regimes, Logics, and Challenges
| Authors | Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Gabriela Mezzanotti |
| Year | 2021 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Neither Durable nor a Solution: a critical analysis of broken policies of return between the EU and Afghanistan
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Maira Omar |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Human Rights and Vulnerability and International Refugee Law | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
SOCIETY, CULTURE AND FRONTIERS: Interdisciplinary Approaches
| Authors | Gabriela MEZZANOTTI, Fábio Lopes Alves, Eduardo Portanova Barros, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Society, culture and frontiers: Interdisciplinary approaches | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Catedra Sergio Vieira de Mello Unisinos
| Authors | Gabriela MEZZANOTTI, Inácio Helfer, Alvaro Augusto Stumpf Paes Leme, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | 15 years of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello chair in Brazil: universities and refugees. | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Entre non-entrée e non-refoulement: uma análise crítica do discurso norueguês em sua atual gestão migratória
| Authors | Gabriela MEZZANOTTI |
| Year | 2000 |
| Book Title | Forced migrants: concept and contexts | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Problem-posing HRE: a revolutionary tool for social change and human development
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Human Rights Education Review |
Suggested Research
Forced Migration and the Detention of Indigenous Asylum Seekers in the United States: a critical analysis of the intersectional nature of the oppression of Indigenous migrants
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Human Rights and Vulnerability and Forced Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
From transnational to trans-Indigenous: a critical analysis of the role of categorization and everyday coloniality in Indigenous mobilities
| Authors | Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, João Carlos Jarochinski Silva |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |