Dr Silvia Pasquetti
Small Group Project 2021-23
Building Urban Refuge in Troubled Times: Conversations on Personhood, Justice, and Place across Practice and Scholarship
With Romola Sanyal
The project provides an original approach to the question of how refugees rebuild their lives, engaging with local residents and institutions in the cities where they settle. It does this by promoting a cross-national and regional dialogue between the West End Refugee Service (WERS, Newcastle, UK) and the Center for Immigration, Asylum, and International Cooperation (CIAC, Parma, Italy). The team will include staff members of refugee background, thus valorizing the experiential knowledge of those who have been both recipients of humanitarian aid and involved in the creation and delivery of programmes to support refugees.
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Biography
Dr Silvia Pasquetti is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University, working at the intersection of law and society scholarship, urban studies, and citizenship and refugee studies. Her research focuses on forced displacement in comparative and global perspective, with attention to histories and structures of colonial control, militarism, and urban marginality. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and prior to joining Newcastle held a Research Associate position in the Department of Sociology and a Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. In 2017–2018 she was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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