Simone Miziara Frangella

Simone Frangella is a Social Anthropologist, and currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her Master and PhD (Brazil, UNICAMP) dissertations concerned, respectively, street children and adult homelessness. She was a Research Associate in the project Black Lusophone Atlantic, Cultures of Black Lusophone Atlantic, King's College, University of London (2006-2007), and a Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths College (2006-2009), where she turned to transnational mobility and Brazilian cultural production. Since 2009 she is based in ICS, having worked initially with Brazilian migration to Portugal and, more recently, with urban territorialities in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon. Her work has been consolidating an approach on mobility, vulnerability and agencies in different research contexts. The research includes issues such as: geographic and social mobilities, cities and corporeality; transnational mobility, and the circulation of culture production; gender and intergeneration experiences, territorial belonging, and effects of migrant experiences in the city; intergenerational interactions, conviviality processes, narratives on citizenship and on work; identity conflicts, territorialities and identities. She has taught ethnographic methodology and urban anthropology in both MAster and PhD programmes, and since 2023 she has been a member of the scientific committee of the PhD in Anthropology of the University of Lisbon (DANT-UL: ICS/ISCSP/FLUL). At the present moment, she is the Co-PI of the FCT-funded project Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021) She is currently member of the board of Directors of the Portuguese Antrhopological Association (APA), and President of the Association of Brazilianists in Europe (ABRE). Her production includes books chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals on street children, homelessness, migration, cultural production, and urban spaces. Among her publications is the book: Corpos Urbanos Errantes: Uma Etnografia da Corporalidade de Moradores de Rua em SP, 2010. (Wandering Urban Bodies: An ethnography of the Corporeality of Homeless People in São Paulo). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)