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Flavia Cangia

Professore/ssa Associato/a

Biografia

Flavia Cangià è professoressa associata presso l'Università Mercatorum. Antropologa sociale e sociologa della cultura, il suo lavoro di ricerca si concentra principalmente sulle migrazioni e la mobilità, con particolare attenzione alle transizioni di vita, le traiettorie professionali, la precarietà, la digitalizzazione del lavoro e il lavoro da remoto. Ha collaborato come ricercatrice per diverse università e centri di ricerca svizzeri, tra cui il National Center of Competence in Research NCCR On the Move e il Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES. Le sue ricerche si estendono a contesti diversi, con un focus particolare su Giappone, Malesia, Italia e Svizzera. È autrice dei libri Performing the Buraku e Liminal Moves (pubblicato da Berghahn Books, nella serie Worlds in Motion), e ha pubblicato articoli in prestigiose riviste internazionali tra cui Childhood, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Geoforum, Population, Space and Place e Migration and Society. Il suo approccio transdisciplinare le consente di esplorare in modo innovativo le intersezioni tra cultura, mobilità e le sfide della digitalizzazione.

Facoltà

Scienze della Società e della Comunicazione

Materia d'insegnamento

Sociologia dei media digitali

Dipartimento

Scienze umane e sociali

Ricevimento

Venerdì dalle ore 9.00 lle ore 15.00

Modalità di prenotazione degli uffici

Online Meet

Pubblicazioni

Monografie

·       Cangià, F. (2021). Liminal Moves. Travelling Along Places, Meanings and Times. Berghahn Books

·       Cangià, F. (2013). Performing the Buraku. Narratives on Cultures and Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan. Münster:  LIT Verlag

Riviste scientifiche peer-reviewed

·       Cangià, F., (2024) “‘South-Working’: Return mobilities and remote work during Covid-19” Critique of Anthropology Journal 44 (4): 420-438 https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X241299327

·       Cangià, F., (2023) ‘Immobile subjectivities. Navigating (im)mobility in migrants’ career and life journeys’ Migration and Society 6 (1): 121–135 https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2023.060110

·       Cangià, F., Wassmer, S., Davoine, E. and Salamin, X. (2022) “From ‘digital nomadism’ to ‘rooted digitalism’: The remote work and (im)mobilities of IT professionals in times of Covid-19” Transitions Journal of Transient Migration 6, Issue Politics, Perils and Privileges: Immobilities in the Time of Global Pandemics: 61 – 80

·       Cangià, F. Davoine, E. and Tashtish, S. (2022) “Gender and the highly skilled career trajectories of Syrian refugees in Switzerland” Migration Letters 19(6)

·       Cangià, F. Davoine, E. and Tashtish, S. (2021) (Im)mobilities, waiting and professional aspirations: the career lives of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland. Geoforum 125: 57-64

·       Hercog, M., and Cangià, F. (2021). Skills on the Move: Highly Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Beyond Population, Space and Place 7 (5): 1-11

·       Cangià, F., Zittoun, T., (2020) Exploring the Interplay between (Im)mobility and Imagination, Special Issue for Culture & Psychology Journal, 26(4) 641–653 

·       Cangià, F., (2020). (Im)mobile Imagination. On Trailing, Waiting and Imagining Work in Mobility. Part of the special issue “Exploring the Interplay between (Im)mobility and Imagination”, Culture & Psychology, 26(4) 697–712

·       Suter, B., and Cangià, F., (2020) Time and Family on the Move: ‘Accompanying Partners’ in Geographical Mobility. Time & Society 29(3)  813–835

·       Cangià, F., (2019). “Switzerland doesn’t want me”. Work, precarity and emotions for mobile professionals’ partners. Migration Letters 16 (2), 207-217.

·       Cangià, F. (2018). Precarity, Imagination and the Mobile Life of the ‘Trailing Spouse’. Ethos 46 (1), 8-26 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.12195/full.

·       Cangià, F., & Zittoun, T. (2018). Editorial: When Expatriation is a Matter of Family. Opportunities, Barriers and Intimacies in International Mobility. Migration Letters 15 (1), 1-16.

·       Cangià, F., Levitan, D., & Zittoun, T. (2018). Family, Boundaries and Transformation. The International Mobility of Professionals and Their Families. Migration Letters 15 (1), 17-31.

·       Zittoun, T., Levitan, D., & Cangiá, F. (2018). A sociocultural approach to mobility: the case of repeated mobility of families. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 24 (4): 424–432.

·       Cangià, F. (2018). Book Review: Julia L. Cassaniti & Usha Menon (Eds). Universalism Without Uniformity. American Ehnologist 45 (4): 569-571.

·       Cangià, F. (2017).  (Im)Mobility and the Emotional Life of the Expat Spouses. Emotion, Space and Society 25, 22-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.10.001.

·       Cangià, F. (2017). Childhoods as Political Projects. A Comparison between Cultural Nationalism and Minority Activism in Japan. Global Studies of Childhood  7, 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610617694729

·       Cangià, F. (2017). Emotions and Symbolic Boundaries. Reflections on Italian Youths’ Views About Migration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (10), 1720–1738.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1201587

·       Cangià, F. (2015). Book Review: Schiller, Glick Nina and Andrew Irving (eds.). Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontent. Social Anthropology Journal. 23 (3), 391–392.

·       Cangià, F. (2015). Book Review: Spyrou, Spyros, and Miranda Christou (Eds.) Children and Borders. Border Criminologies Blog (6 July 2015).

·       Cangià, F. (2014). The Hindu Rights Action Force and the Definition of the “Indian Community” in Malaysia. Sociological Research Online 19 (4), 1-14.

·       Cangià, F. (2014). Written Emotional Disclosure and Boundary Making. Minority Children Writing about Discrimination. Multicultural Education Review 6 (2), 25-52.  

https://doi.org/10.1080/2005615X.2014.11102911.

·       Cangià, F. and Pagani, C. (2014). National Borders and Emotions in Italian Youths' Views on Immigration. Etnofoor, Issue Borders, 26 (1), 107-124.

·       Cangià, F. and Pagani, C. (2014). Youths, Cultural Diversity, and Complex Thinking. The

Open Psychology Journal 7, 20-28.

·       Cangià, F. (2013). From Heterotopias to Cultural Landscapes. On Reconstructing Buraku Leather Towns into “Japanese National Spaces”. Urbanities 3 (1), 44-62.

·       Cangià, F. (2013). Images of Edo. Reinterpreting “Japanese History” and the “Buraku” Through Minority Narratives. Contemporary Japan 25 (1), 17-40.

·       Cangià, F. (2012). “Children of Kinegawa” and the Transformation of the “Buraku Identity” in Japan. Childhood 19 (3), 360-374. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568212444739

Riviste scientifiche non-peer-reviewed

·       Cangià, F. (2010). “Towards a Mutual Anthropology of Identity in Japan and the West”. The Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Retrieved from http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/2010/Cangia.html.

·       Cangià, F. (2009). Performing the Buraku Culture. Taiko Drums from Factory to Stage. Phoenix in Domo Foscari, The Online Journal of Oriental Studies 2, 73-94.

·       Cangià, F. (2008). Buddhismo Giapponese e Diritti Umani. Il Fondamento Religioso del Burakumondai. La Critica Sociologica 167, 43-55. https://doi.org/10.1400/97022.

Atti di conferenza

·       Davoine, E., Cangià, F., Tashtish, S., (2022) “The conversion of Career capital of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland: exploring the issues of transnational relocation and time perspective” Journal of the Association francophone de gestion des ressources humaines

·       Cangià, F. (2013). Minority Children’s Narratives and the Transformation of Social Categorization. Conference Proceeding, in M. Bartulovic, L. Bash, V. Spajic-Vrkas (Eds.) IAIE The International Association for Intercultural Education Zagreb 2013: Unity and disunity, connections and separations: intercultural education as a movement for promoting multiple identities, social inclusion and transformation. Conference proceedings (pp. 10-19).

Contributi in volume

·       Davoine, E., Tashtish, S., Cangià F., (2024) “La difficile conversion des capitaux de carrière en situation de migration forcée : une étude sur les réfugiés syriens très qualifiés en Suisse” in Laetitia Pihel, Jean Pralong, Séverine Ventolini Eds. “La Gestion des Carrieres : Une Approche par les Mobilites”

·       Cangià, F., (2023) "Lavorare dal Sud: Return to Southern Italy and remote work in Pandemic times.” in Vannini , P. Ed. “Mobilities in Remote Places” Routledge

·       Le Feuvre, N., Davoine, E., Cangià, F., (2022) When mobility meets gender in the multidimensional transnational life course, In D. Spini & E. Widmer (eds.) Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life. Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

·       Cangià, F., Zittoun, T., and Levitan, D. (2019). “Work and Geographical Mobility: The Case of the Male Accompanying Spouses.” In Culture, Work and Psychology: Invitations to Dialogue, edited by Pedro Bendassoli, Charlotte, NC: Advances in Cultural Psychology.

·       Cangià, F., (2019). “The Human Relationship with Sociocultural Diversity in the Social Sciences”, in Pagani, C., Diversity and Complexity. Nova Publishers.

·       Levitan, D., Zittoun, T.  & Cangiá, F. (2018). Relocation experts for families in geographical itinerancy: beyond the “cultural problem”. In S. Schliewe, N. Chaudhary, & P. Marsico (Eds.). Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World. Charlotte, NC: Advances in Cultural Psychology.

Altre pubblicazioni

·       Co-editor with Hege Høyer Leivestad (Uni Oslo) of the section “Moving Entities” of the Handbook of Anthropology of Mobility, Editor Noel Salazar (in preparation for Berghahn Books)

·       HR Today (November 2021): “Pratiques virtuelles et nouvelles frontières organisationnelles : quelles tendances en Suisse romande?” with E. Davoine, X. Salamin, S. Tawfik, B. Audrin

·       HR Today N.5 October/November 2020 “Réussir l’intégration: le cas des réfugiés syriens très qualifies” with E. Davoine et S.Tashtish

·       11/08/2020    nccr on-the-move Blog: “Back to the Future? Towards the Post-Liminal Phase of the Covid-19” https://blog.nccr-onthemove.ch/back-to-the-future-towards-the-post-liminal-phase-of-the-covid-19/

Vai alle pubblicazioni

Società scientifiche

2022-2023 Co-convenor Anthropology of Mobility Network, European Association of Social Anthropologists

Membro di: American Anthropological Association and the Society for Psychological Anthropology (dal 2014); European Association of Social Anthropologists (dal 2013); Swiss Anthropological Association (dal 2009)

Convegni Scientifici

ORGANIZZAZIONE DI CONFERENZE

4-7/03/2021     International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences IUAES, Panel with B. Suter (Malmö University): Time, (Im)mobility and Vulnerability

14-17/08/2018  European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Panel with B. Suter (Malmö University): (Un)Moving, Becoming and 'Kinning': The Times of Migration and the Nexus with Family

18-19/05/2018  NCCR – on the move, University of Neuchâtel, International Workshop: Exploring the Imagination-Mobility Nexus: From Imaginaries of (Im)Mobility to Imagining On-The-Move

25/06/2015        International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion IMISCOE 12th Annual Conference, Geneva. Panel: Friction-less and Root-less Mobilities? Opportunities, Barriers and Intimacies in Expatriate Migration.

INTERVENTI INVITATI

17/05/2022        University of Geneva, University Refugee Forum Uni4Refugees: Expanding Diversity in Higher Education. Intervento nella sessione: Lifelong Learning, career transition and refugee exile

11/02/2021        University of Trento IT, ERC HOMInG Researching Home and Migration

Invited Speaker Webinar: presentation of the book Liminal Moves

09/11/2020        EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network ANTHROMOB

Invited Speaker Moving and Mobilities Online Lecture Series 

23/11/2019        MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, MacroAsilo Project. Contributo alla presentazione del libro di C. Pagani “Diversity and Complexity” (NOVA Publishers)

30/10/2017        NCCR on-the-move Expert Roundtable: La Suisse ‘All Inclusive’? Migration, Mobilité et Inclusions Différenciées: “Migrant·e·s hautement qualifié·e·s : des forfaits « all inclusive » ?”

PARTECIPAZIONE IN QUALITÀ DI RELATORE A CONGRESSI NAZIONALI E INTERNAZIONALI 

06/07-12-2021  Australian Mobilities Research Networ (AusMob) Symposium 2021Transforming Mobilities

Paper: “From ‘digital nomadism’ to ‘rooted digitalism’: The virtual work and (im)mobilities of IT professionals in times of Covid-19”.

 

11/11/2021        Journée internationale de sociologie du travail (JIST)

Paper with E. Davoine and S. Tashtish: “Negotiating Gender Roles in transition between Gender Regimes: the Case of Highly Skilled Syrian Refugees in Switzerland”

 

20/06/2021      International Society for Ethnology and Folklore SIEF2021 - 15th Congress, Paper: “Navigating uncertainty in (im)mobility: qualified migrants on the move”

 

2-4/07/2020      European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium EGOS 2020.

Paper with E. Davoine and S. Tashtish: “The conversion of Career capital of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland: exploring the notions of cosmopolitan capital and reserves”

 

11/09/2019       Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association 2019 “The Future of Work” University of Neuchâtel CH Paper with M. Schaer (University of Neuchâtel): “(Im)mobility and the ‘entreprecariat’: the case of the partners of professionals on the move”

27/06/2019       International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion IMISCOE 16th Malmö Paper with B. Suter and S. Snowden (Malmö University): Exploring imaginations and practices of ‘return’ among highly skilled transient migrants in China, Sweden and Switzerland

 

15/08/2018     European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Paper with B. Suter (Malmö University): Experiencing and Practicing Time in Family Mobility: the Case of the Accompanying Spouses

 

18/05/2018   NCCR on-the-move International Workshop, University of Neuchâtel, Exploring the Imagination-Mobility Nexus: From Imaginaries to Imagining On-The-Move. Paper: Suspended Imagination. On Trailing, Waiting and (Re)Making Work in Mobility

 

16/03/2017     FHS St. Gallen, TransforMen - Contemporary analysis of masculinities in Switzerland Paper: Masculinities in “Liminal Hotspots”. Becoming a Male Trailing Spouse in Switzerland

 

02/12/2017     116th American Anthropological Association AAA Annual Meeting, Paper with M. Hercog (University of Basel): Mobilizing "Skills" On-The-Move. The Case of the Highly Skilled Migrants and their Partners in Switzerland

 

05/06/2017     University of Trento IT, ERC HOMInG Researching Home and Migration Workshop Paper with D. Levitan and T. Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel): “Transportable” Homes? Home Making Practices and Feeling-at-Home for Mobile Families in Switzerland and Beyond”

 

11/11/2016    Swiss Anthropological Association - Annual Conference, Lausanne, Paper presented: “On 'The Incorporated Wife' (or Husband). From 'Trailing' to 'Accompanying' the Partner in International Mobility”

 

20/07/2016      European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Annual Conference,  Paper presented: “Precarity and the Mobile Life of the 'Trailing Spouse'”

 

23/06/2016      NCCR On the Move, Annual Conference, Neuchâtel PechaKucha presentation co-authored with D. Levitan and T. Zittoun: “On Locality and 'Feeling at Home' for Mobile Families in Switzerland”

 

26/06/2015       International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion IMISCOE 12th Paper with D. Levitan and T. Zittoun: “When Expatriation is a Matter of Family. Geographical Itinerants and their Families in Switzerland and Beyond”

 

03/06/2015       Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, Lausanne Paper co-authored with M. Hercog: “On “Relocating” the “Highly Skilled Migrants” in Switzerland. Reflections on the Institutional Meanings of "Integration”” 

 

19/09/2013   The International Association for Intercultural Education, Zagreb, Paper presented: “Minority Children’s Narratives and the Transformation of Social Categorization”

 

Altri interventi

23/11/2019   MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, MacroAsilo Project. Invited contribution to the presentation of C. Pagani’s book “Diversity and Complexity” (NOVA Publishers)

 

30/10/2017  NCCR on-the-move Expert Roundtable: La Suisse ‘All Inclusive’? Migration, Mobilité et Inclusions Différenciées: “Migrant·e·s hautement qualifié·e·s : des forfaits « all inclusive » ?”

Comitati Editoriali

ORGANIZZAZIONE DI CONFERENZE

4-7/03/2021     International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences IUAES, Panel with B. Suter (Malmö University): Time, (Im)mobility and Vulnerability

14-17/08/2018  European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Panel with B. Suter (Malmö University): (Un)Moving, Becoming and 'Kinning': The Times of Migration and the Nexus with Family

18-19/05/2018  NCCR – on the move, University of Neuchâtel, International Workshop: Exploring the Imagination-Mobility Nexus: From Imaginaries of (Im)Mobility to Imagining On-The-Move

25/06/2015        International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion IMISCOE 12th Annual Conference, Geneva. Panel: Friction-less and Root-less Mobilities? Opportunities, Barriers and Intimacies in Expatriate Migration.

INTERVENTI INVITATI

17/05/2022        University of Geneva, University Refugee Forum Uni4Refugees: Expanding Diversity in Higher Education. Intervento nella sessione: Lifelong Learning, career transition and refugee exile

11/02/2021        University of Trento IT, ERC HOMInG Researching Home and Migration

Invited Speaker Webinar: presentation of the book Liminal Moves

09/11/2020        EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network ANTHROMOB

Invited Speaker Moving and Mobilities Online Lecture Series 

23/11/2019        MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, MacroAsilo Project. Contributo alla presentazione del libro di C. Pagani “Diversity and Complexity” (NOVA Publishers)

30/10/2017        NCCR on-the-move Expert Roundtable: La Suisse ‘All Inclusive’? Migration, Mobilité et Inclusions Différenciées: “Migrant·e·s hautement qualifié·e·s : des forfaits « all inclusive » ?”

PARTECIPAZIONE IN QUALITÀ DI RELATORE A CONGRESSI NAZIONALI E INTERNAZIONALI 

06/07-12-2021  Australian Mobilities Research Networ (AusMob) Symposium 2021Transforming Mobilities

Paper: “From ‘digital nomadism’ to ‘rooted digitalism’: The virtual work and (im)mobilities of IT professionals in times of Covid-19”.

 

11/11/2021        Journée internationale de sociologie du travail (JIST)

Paper with E. Davoine and S. Tashtish: “Negotiating Gender Roles in transition between Gender Regimes: the Case of Highly Skilled Syrian Refugees in Switzerland”

 

20/06/2021      International Society for Ethnology and Folklore SIEF2021 - 15th Congress, Paper: “Navigating uncertainty in (im)mobility: qualified migrants on the move”

 

2-4/07/2020      European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium EGOS 2020.

Paper with E. Davoine and S. Tashtish: “The conversion of Career capital of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland: exploring the notions of cosmopolitan capital and reserves”

 

11/09/2019       Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association 2019 “The Future of Work” University of Neuchâtel CH Paper with M. Schaer (University of Neuchâtel): “(Im)mobility and the ‘entreprecariat’: the case of the partners of professionals on the move”

27/06/2019       International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion IMISCOE 16th Malmö Paper with B. Suter and S. Snowden (Malmö University): Exploring imaginations and practices of ‘return’ among highly skilled transient migrants in China, Sweden and Switzerland

 

15/08/2018     European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Paper with B. Suter (Malmö University): Experiencing and Practicing Time in Family Mobility: the Case of the Accompanying Spouses

 

18/05/2018   NCCR on-the-move International Workshop, University of Neuchâtel, Exploring the Imagination-Mobility Nexus: From Imaginaries to Imagining On-The-Move. Paper: Suspended Imagination. On Trailing, Waiting and (Re)Making Work in Mobility

 

16/03/2017     FHS St. Gallen, TransforMen - Contemporary analysis of masculinities in Switzerland Paper: Masculinities in “Liminal Hotspots”. Becoming a Male Trailing Spouse in Switzerland

 

02/12/2017     116th American Anthropological Association AAA Annual Meeting, Paper with M. Hercog (University of Basel): Mobilizing "Skills" On-The-Move. The Case of the Highly Skilled Migrants and their Partners in Switzerland

 

05/06/2017     University of Trento IT, ERC HOMInG Researching Home and Migration Workshop Paper with D. Levitan and T. Zittoun (University of Neuchâtel): “Transportable” Homes? Home Making Practices and Feeling-at-Home for Mobile Families in Switzerland and Beyond”

 

11/11/2016    Swiss Anthropological Association - Annual Conference, Lausanne, Paper presented: “On 'The Incorporated Wife' (or Husband). From 'Trailing' to 'Accompanying' the Partner in International Mobility”

 

20/07/2016      European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Annual Conference,  Paper presented: “Precarity and the Mobile Life of the 'Trailing Spouse'”

 

23/06/2016      NCCR On the Move, Annual Conference, Neuchâtel PechaKucha presentation co-authored with D. Levitan and T. Zittoun: “On Locality and 'Feeling at Home' for Mobile Families in Switzerland”

 

26/06/2015       International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion IMISCOE 12th Paper with D. Levitan and T. Zittoun: “When Expatriation is a Matter of Family. Geographical Itinerants and their Families in Switzerland and Beyond”

 

03/06/2015       Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, Lausanne Paper co-authored with M. Hercog: “On “Relocating” the “Highly Skilled Migrants” in Switzerland. Reflections on the Institutional Meanings of "Integration”” 

 

19/09/2013   The International Association for Intercultural Education, Zagreb, Paper presented: “Minority Children’s Narratives and the Transformation of Social Categorization”

 

Altri interventi

23/11/2019   MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, MacroAsilo Project. Invited contribution to the presentation of C. Pagani’s book “Diversity and Complexity” (NOVA Publishers)

 

30/10/2017  NCCR on-the-move Expert Roundtable: La Suisse ‘All Inclusive’? Migration, Mobilité et Inclusions Différenciées: “Migrant·e·s hautement qualifié·e·s : des forfaits « all inclusive » ?”

Le Principali aree di ricerca in ambito accademico riguardano:

mobilità, migrazioni, migranti altamente qualificati, precarietà, digitalizzazione del lavoro, lavoro da remoto, vulnerabilità, transizioni

SSD

GSPS-06/A

GSD

GSD 14/GSPS-06