graduate at Licenciatura En Ciencias Antropológicas from Universidad de Buenos Aires (1979), master's at Antropology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1990) and ph.d. at Sociology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1999). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Antropology, acting on the following subjects: gênero, prostituição, sexualidade, teoria feminista and turismo sexual. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major global health challenge with economic and social consequences for individuals, families and communities worldwide. Emerging evidence shows that its impacts have significantly affected women through rising inequalities. For many women, migration is an adaptive response to social risks and inequalities. During the pandemic, mobility and economic rest…
This proposal is destined to update fieldwork material and bibliography in order to conclude the book "Circuits of desire: sexual economies and international tourism in the Northeast of Brazil", based on ethnographic researches carried since 2000 with the support of Fapesp in the touristic circuits of Fortaleza and other cities in the coast of the Ceará State. The project's main objective…
The main objective of the researcher's visit is, taking into account her research experiences regarding borders, sex work and sex trafficking in the US/Mexican border and as lecturer and member of diverse European research programmes, to collaborate in the discussions of research groups of the Center for Gender Studies APGU/Unicamp, as well as with other research grupos in the São Paulo S…
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A study of food circulation in exchange networks in an urban occupation in Belo Horizonte (MG), deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic at a time when hunger became a pressing concern in daily life, is the subject of this study. As an ethnographer, I am interested in exploring the social dynamics, marked by gender as it articulates with other differentiation markers, that are produced an…
The research proposal takes as a reference the trajectories of migrant and refugee women living in the city of São Paulo to analyze the processes of production of inequalities that operate from the crossing of borders. The aim is to advance in the production of knowledge about transnational mobilities, gender and processes of precariousness, observing the strategies of migrants and refuge…
This project focuses on the analysis of the alteration of migratory flows of Haitians (men and women) who, leaving Brazil, went to the United States in 2016 and, unable to enter this country, live in Tijuana, Mexico, paying particular attention how transnational networks of affection and "helps" take part in these changes. These networks will be studied from a perspective that understands…
This project aims to analyse how gender operates in the crossovers between prison and transnational population movements. The proposal is to examine the juxtapositions between prison and other state devices of borders control, through a dialogue between the studies on the criminalization of migration and the results of an ethnographic work, focused on displacements of women who leave pris…
In this research I propose to analyze the effects of policies to diminish sex trafficking, sexual exploitation of children and adolescents and sex tourism upon the dynamics of sex markets. In this behalf, I will consider the construction and modification of these categories in Fortaleza, a city that became paradigmatic in the conceptualizations of sex crimes and the implementation of poli…
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The aim of this project is to explore how sexual/affective heterosexual transnational relationships affect the displacements between Spain and Brazil in the present economic conjuncture. In contrast to the opportunities that are opening in Brazil the economic crises that affects several European countries, particularly Spain, is stimulating the migration of Europeans to Brazil as well as …
The present project is a deepening of reflections, begun during my masters' research, regarding the experience of imprisoned foreign women (i.e estrangeiras) with maternity, both in and out of jail. The universe to be researched involves the foreign women imprisoned in the Penitenciária Feminina da Capital (PFC - Capital City Female Penitenciary) in the city of São Paulo, as well as the …
The project's aim is to continue a field work, initiated in 2009, focused on transnational marriages connected to migratory processes towards Spain. The research universe is integrated by Brazilian women and men of different social backgrounds and racial categories, from different States and occupied in diverse labor sectors in Spain, including the sex industry and by Spanish men and wom…
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