Team > Dr. Viola Castellano
Dr. Viola Castellano
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Scientific Career
| 2021/2022 | Research Fellow, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna. |
| 2019/2021 | Post-doctoral Fellow, São Paulo Research Foundation, The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. |
| 2014-2021 | Adjunct Professor, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna. |
| 2013 | Visiting Scholar, Anthropology Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York. |
| 2011-2014 | PhD, Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy. |
| 2006-2009 | MA, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology and Ethnolinguistic, University of Ca’ Foscari Venice. |
| 2003-2006 | BA, Anthropological Sciences, University of Bologna. |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Current Project
Gambian Returnees as Producers of Knowledge on the Border Regime- funded by DFG (German Research Foundation)
Research Interests
migration and border policies; welfare systems and social services; inequalities and racialization; humanitarianism; advocacy.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Publications
2024
Castellano, Viola
Social connections and ethical entrapments : On doing anthropology of and through the border re ...
in Anthropological Theory (2024)
doi:10.1177/14634996241247432 ...
Castellano, Viola
Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration in The Gambia : Aid Workers and Returnees as Implem ...
Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders : Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2024
doi:10.5771/9781666935882 ...
Castellano, Viola
“Time is on me” : Entangled Temporalities Between Italy and the Gambia
in Journal of International Migration and Integration volume 25 (2024) . - page 1153-1168
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007550 ...
Castellano, Viola
(Un)ruly relationalities : Navigating mobility rules in the Italian asylum system
in Focaal (2024) issue 99. - page 68-81
doi:10.3167/fcl.2024.990106 ...
2023
Castellano, Viola; Riccio, Bruno
Migrants' self-narration as cultural critique : Exploring Political Subjectivities through Asyl ...
Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing : Reimagining Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge, and Power
New York : Routledge, 2023
doi:10.4324/9781003355151 ...
2023
Castellano, Viola; Casagrande, Olivia
Encountering precarities : ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia
in Allegra Lab
. Mai 2023
https://allegralaboratory.net/encountering-precari ...
2023
Castellano, Viola
Unfinished adulthood : discontinuous precarities as epistemic opportunities
in Allegra Lab
. Mai 2023
https://allegralaboratory.net/unfinished-adulthood ...
2023
Castellano, Viola
Set to see us fail : Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York
New York : Berghahn, 2023
Castellano, Viola
"Not yet Babylon" : Pensare il sistema di asilo e la gestione delle migrazioni attraverso le so ...
in Antropologia volume 10 (2023) issue 1. - page 21-40
doi:10.14672/ada20231pp21-40 ...
Castellano, Viola
Policies as a Space of Contestation? An Ethnography of Advocacy Practices in the Child Welfare ...
in Rivista di Antropologia Contemporanea (2023) issue 2. - page 311-330
doi:10.48272/112571 ...
Castellano, Viola
Ripensare i processi di precarizzazione come opportunità epistemiche
in Antropologia Pubblica volume 9 (2023) issue 1. - page 189-197
https://riviste-clueb.online/index.php/anpub/artic ...
2022
Castellano, Viola
Voluntary Returns or Forced Choices? Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programs in Th ...
in ROR-n Plattform volume 1 (2022) issue 3. - page 123-131
doi:10.1553/RoR-n_Plattform_Vol_01(3) ...
2021
Castellano, Viola
Da etnografa a operatrice legale e ritorno : nodi epistemici e pratiche di ricerca nel sistema ...
in ANPIA
19. Februar 2021
Castellano, Viola
The elephant in the room : Silencing racialization in welfare regimes
in La Ricerca Folklorica (2021) issue 76. - page 67-90
http://hdl.handle.net/11585/865049
Castellano, Viola
Walking a Fine Line : The Struggle for Parent Advocacy in the NYC Child Welfare System
in City & Society volume 33 (2021) issue 3. - page 518-541
doi:10.1111/ciso.12416 ...
2018
Castellano, Viola
Revolving door : I servizi per i minori e la riproduzione delle disuguaglianze a New York
Bergamo : Edizioni Junior, 2018
2017
Castellano, Viola
The Politics of Racial Disproportionality of the Child Welfare System in New York
Boundaries within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities
Cham : Springer, 2017. - page 53-74
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53331-5_4 ...
Castellano, Viola
"We only have rights over operators" : La riappropriazione del "regime di sospetto" da parte de ...
in Antropologia Pubblica volume 3 (2017) issue 1. - page 51-74
doi:10.1473/anpub.v3i1.96 ...
2014
Castellano, Viola
Razzismi
Antropologia e migrazioni
Rom : CISU, 2014. - page 209-220
Castellano, Viola
Vivere le disuguaglianze urbane attraverso le istituzioni : il child welfare system a New York ...
SOUQ2014
Milano : Il Saggiatore, 2014. - page 68-88
https://aisberg.unibg.it/bitstream/10446/32787/3/c ...
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Viola Castellano
Senior Research Associate
University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II, Room: 00.21
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4134
E-mail: viola.castellano@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Anthropology of Global Inequalities