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Veronica Ferreri
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Veronica Ferreri is a social scientist and ethnographer working at the intersection of Social Anthropology and Migration Studies with a focus on exile and war, political commitment and solidarity, transnationalism and migration, bureaucracy and documents. She is a Global Marie Curie Fellow at the Dept of Humanities in Venice's University of Ca' Foscari and an affiliated researcher at Humboldt University (CARMAH). Her current project is entitled "Archives in Times of War" examines diasporic Syrians’ practices of preservation and storage of mundane legal documents and their centrality in the different forms of care enacted by families scattered between Syria and Europe. She gained her PhD from SOAS University of London in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient between 2018 and 2021. Her PhD thesis entitled "A state of permanent loss: war and displacement in Syria and Lebanon" was was awarded in 2019 the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by BRISMES. Her work appears in Citizenship Studies, Allegra Lab, HKW.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Theory
Identity/Representation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Mediterranean Countries
Syria
Europe
Specialties
Migration And Displacement, Bureaucracy And Offici
Languages
English (fluent)
Italian (native)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Politics | SOAS - University of London
MA | 2012 | Anthropology and Sociology | SOAS - University of London
MA | 2011 | Middle Eastern Studies | Ca' Foscari University
BA | 2008 | Languages and Literature/Anthropology | University of Genoa
Abstracts
Legal Death and the Infrastructure of (non-)Legal Personhood in the Syrian Displacement in Lebanon Scattered and Remade: Archives of Legal Documents Between Wartime Syria and Europe