Sara
Bonfanti
Dr. Bonfanti is a social anthropologist, specialized in gender studies, with expertise on South Asian diasporas. From a background in cultural studies, she gained a PhD in Anthropology of Migrations for her multi-sited ethnography conducted between Italy and India in 2012-15, where she analyzed generational change among Punjabi transnational families. Keen on participatory methods, her research interests include kinship, religious pluralism and media cultures, approached through intersectionality and life stories. Former visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (DE), since 2017 she has collaborated within the comparative ERC HOMInG Project based at University of Trento (IT), exploring the home-migration nexus across European cities with a multiscale lens and mixed qualitative methods. Dr. Bonfanti has published widely in Italian and English, and recently co-authored “Shifting Roofs: Ethnographies of Home and Mobility”, Routledge 2020. Currently, while co-editing a collection of migrants’ life stories for Berghahn Books, she is also engaged in filmmaking, co-directing an ethnographic movie on minority houses of worship in times of pandemic.
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Dept. Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (ITA)
University, Trento, Italy
ERC Postdoc Research Fellow
Research
Where do we go from here? Exploring the future of mixed families between Italy and South Asia
| Authors | Sara Bonfanti |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
The “marriage market” among Punjabi migrant families in Italy : designs, resistances, and gateways
| Authors | Sara Bonfanti |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Human Affairs | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility
| Authors | Alejandro Miranda Nieto, Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti |
| Year | 2020 |
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Suggested Research
Towards a migrant-centred perspective on international migration : the contribution of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach
| Authors | Sara BONFANTI |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | [Migration Policy Centre] |
‘New Rules for Labour Immigration’: Delving into the 2008 Swedish Reform of Labour Migration and Its Effects on Migrants’ Well-Being
| Authors | Sara Bonfanti |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Migration and Integration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrants' skills : use, mismatch and labour market outcomes : a first exploration of the International Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)
| Authors | Sara BONFANTI, Theodora XENOGIANI |
| Year | 2014 |
| Book Title | [Migration Policy Centre] | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Calling into question the link between educational achievement and migrant background
| Authors | Anna DI BARTOLOMEO, Sara BONFANTI |
| Year | 2014 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Measuring integration of migrants a multivariate approach
| Authors | Anna DI BARTOLOMEO, Sona KALANTARYAN, Sara BONFANTI |
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| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
L’intelligence collective sur le terrain : cognition distribuée et recherches qualitatives multi-sites
| Authors | Ilka Vari-Lavoisier, Paolo Boccagni, Milena Belloni, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Espaces et sociétés | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |