Francesco Vacchiano

INSTITUTE:

UNU-BARCELONA

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NATIONALITY:

Italy

Education

Psy.D., PhD Anthropology, University of Turin

Biographical Statement

Francesco Vacchiano is a clinical psychologist with a PhD in Anthropology. He is Research Fellow at UNU-Barcelona and associate researcher at the CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology) in Lisbon. He collaborates as a psychologist with the Frantz Fanon Centre of Turin. His research interests focus on migration and mobility in the Mediterranean, youth subjectivity in postcolonial countries, borders and institutions in Europe, politics of citizenship and social suffering. He carries out fieldwork on these topics in Southern Europe and in the Arab world.