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Valerio Simoni has over twenty years of teaching and research experience in disciplinary and interdisciplinary institutions in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Switzerland. Thematically, his work addresses contemporary societal transformations linked to transnational forms of mobility (notably tourism and migration), with extensive field research expertise in Latin American and Southern European countries. Graduated in Social Anthropology at the University of Neuchâtel (2004, Switzerland), he holds a PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University (2009, UK). Dr. Simoni has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (2010-2014, Portugal) and Research Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute (2014-2017, Switzerland). Between 2018 and 2023, he was Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project "BETLIV" (2018-2023). He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Global Migration Centre, Research Associate at the Albert Hirschman Centre for Democracy, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute, as well as Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-IUL) at ISCTE, Portugal. Dr. Simoni has authored over forty peer-reviewed publications, including an award-winning monograph and several encyclopedia entries and highly cited articles in top-tier international social science journals. Promoting network creation and knowledge dissemination, he has led a broad range of research, teaching, as well as service and outreach activities, including as co-convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Anthropology and Mobility Network (2014-2018). In terms of teaching, training, and outreach, in the last fifteen years, Dr. Simoni has designed and delivered about twenty University courses (from BA to PhD level), and Summer Schools and Lifelong training programmes, and supervised over thirty PhD dissertations and MA theses. As Faculty Lead for Interdisciplinary Applied Research Projects at the Geneva Graduate Institute, he has coordinated over twenty partnerships between student teams and national and international organizations (e.g., IOM, ILO, UNHCR, OHCHR, WFP, Save the Children, UNI Global Union), developing an extensive professional network among IOs, INGOs, and other institutional partners. In addition to his scholarly appointments, Valerio currently acts as Consultant for the United Nations’ Network on Migration and for the Office of Integration and Citizenship of the Canton of Geneva, where he leads a project on the history and contemporary developments of Portuguese migration to this Swiss region.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Valerio Simoni

Citation names

  • Simoni, Valerio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6817-9206-07B1
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9517-0253
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HxkvL2sAAAAJ&hl=en

Email addresses

  • valerio.simoni@graduateinstitute.ch (Professional)
  • vals_sim@yahoo.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 967009287 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rue de Berne 44, 1201, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (Personal)
  • Rua Vitor Hugo 8, 5D, 1000-294, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Catalan Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
German Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Latin Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Ancient Greek (until 1553) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/11
Concluded
 Social Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom
"Touristic Encounters in Cuba: Informality, Ambiguity, and Emerging Relationships" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/07
Attended
 Swiss Postgraduate Programme in Ethnology/Anthropology (Postgraduate Certificate)
Swiss Anthropological Association, Switzerland
2006/09
Concluded
 Social Science Research Methods (Social Policy and Sociology) (Postgraduate Certificate)
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
2004/06
Concluded
 Social Anthropology (Licence)
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Switzerland
2018/02/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Global Migration Centre, Switzerland
2014/12 - Current Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2023/07/31 Principal Investigator (Research) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017 - 2021 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland
Universität Bern, Switzerland
2015 - 2018 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Principal Investigator (Research) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2010/07/01 - 2014/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2014/07/01 - 2023/01/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017/08/01 - 2018/01/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
2017/08/01 - 2018/01/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
2014 - 2016 Lecturer (University Teacher) École Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland
2013/09 - 2014/07 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/05/04 - Current Research Manager and Consultant Bureau de l'intégration et de la citoyenneté, Département de la cohésion sociale, République et canton de Genève, Switzerland
Bureau de l'intégration et de la citoyenneté, Département de la cohésion sociale, République et canton de Genève, Switzerland
2023/09/01 - Current Faculty Lead Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
Geneva Graduate Institute: International and Development Studies, Applied Research Projects, Switzerland
2023 - Current Member and Consultant United Nations Network on Migration, Switzerland
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2010/07/01 - 2014/06/30 Controversial Commodities: The Transformations of Relationships in the Realm of Tourism in Cuba
SFRH/BPD/66483/2009
Post-doc
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/02 - 2023/07 Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis
759649
Principal investigator
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development IDEAS The European Research Council
Ongoing
2017 - 2021 Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Imaginaries of Freedom
169715
Research Fellow
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
2016/07/01 - 2019/03/31 PARA ALÉM DE FACTOS E FICÇÕES: A FINANÇA EUROPEIA EM TRANSFORMAÇÃO
PTDC/IVC-ANT/4520/2014
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos sobre África e do Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Investigação em Ciências Sociais e Gestão, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações, Portugal

ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2019 Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction: Financial Transformations in Post2008 Europe
PTDC/IVC-ANT/4520/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/07 - 2017/06 The Transformation of Intimate and Economic Lives in Cuban Tourism and Migration
147946
Principal investigator
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
2015 - 2016 Towards an anthropological approach to tourism in the Cusco region, Peru: Institutional cooperation and partnership
SM-LA 17-AF1589/71305
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
 Eidgenössisches Staatssekretariat für Bildung Forschung und Innovation
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 3122 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/AFR/UI3122/2011
PEst-OE/SADG/UI4038/2011
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012 - 2013 Addressing the Multiple Aspects of Sustainability: Policy Programmes and Livelihood Projects [AMAS]
CSO2011-26843
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història, Spain
 España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2011 - 2012 Transnational Loves: Constitution and Development of Mixed Couples in Spain
REf. CSO2009-10187
Research Fellow
Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Campus Catalunya, Spain
 España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Simoni, Valerio. Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books. 2016.
Book chapter
  1. Simoni, Valerio. "Migrant, Tourist, Cuban: Identification and Belonging in Return Visits to Cuba". In Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile, 45-59. Routledge, 2022.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003182689-3
  2. Simoni, Valerio. "{The Borderzone} Living in and Reaching beyond the Touristic Borderzone: A View from Cuba". In The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond, edited by naomi leite; Quetzil Castañeda; Kathleen Adams, 107-123. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.
    Published
  3. Simoni, Valerio. "True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic Cuba". In Intimate Mobilities, edited by Christian Groes; Nadine Fernandez, 189-212. Berghahn Books, 2018.
    Published • 10.1515/9781785338618-010
  4. Simoni, Valerio. "Shaping Money and Relationships in Touristic Cuba". In Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development, 21-38. Routledge, 2015.
    Published
  5. Simoni, Valerio. "Touristic Encounters Revisited: Controversies of ‘Social’ and ‘Economic’ Value in Cuba". In Tourism in the Global South: Landscapes, Identities and Development, edited by João Sarmento; Eduardo Brito-Henriques, 113-132. Lisbon, Portugal: Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, 2013.
    Published
  6. Simoni, Valerio. "Dancing tourists: Tourism, party and seduction in Cuba". In Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation, edited by David Picard; Mike Robinson, 267-281. Routledge, 2012.
    Published
  7. Simoni, Valerio. "Tourism Materialities: Enacting Cigars in Touristic Cuba". In Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity, edited by René van der Duim; Carina Ren; Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, 59-79. London: Routledge, 2012.
    Published
  8. Simoni, Valerio. "L’interculturalité comme justification: Sexe ‘couleur locale’ dans la Cuba touristique". In Anthropologies de l’interculturalité, edited by Anne Lavanchy; Fred Dervin; Anahy Gajardo, 197-225. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2011.
    Published
  9. Simoni, Valerio. "Tra ‘amicizia’ e ‘interesse’: La negoziazione di relazioni nell’ambito di incontri informali tra turisti e Cubani". In Scenari Turistici, edited by Chiara Cipollari, 75-89. Rome, Italy: CISU, Centro d’Informazione e Stampa Universitaria, 2009.
    Published
  10. Simoni, Valerio. "‘Riding’ Diversity: Cubans’/Jineteros’ Uses of ‘Nationality-Talks’ in the Realm of their Informal Encounters with Tourists". In Tourism Development: Growth, Myths and Inequalities, edited by Peter Burns; Marina Novelli, 68-84. Wallingford, Cambridge MA, United Kingdom: CAB International, 2008.
    Published
Book review
  1. Simoni, Valerio. "Roland, L. Kaifa (2011) Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meaning". Review of Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meaning 15, 1 (2014): 117-120. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/journeys/15/1/jy150106.xml.
    Published
  2. Simoni, Valerio. "Saskia Cousin and Bertrand Réau (2009) Sociologie du tourisme". Review of Sociologie du tourisme 8, 1-2 (2010): 120-124. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14766821003661299.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/14766821003661299
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Naomi Leite; Simoni, Valerio; Margaret Byrne Swain. Corresponding author: Simoni, Valerio. "Anthropology of Tourism". In Encyclopedia of Tourism, edited by Jafar Jafari. Springer, 2023. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_8-2#chapter-info.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_8-2
  2. Simoni, Valerio. "Encountering Tourism". In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.170.
    Published • 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.170
  3. Simoni, Valerio. "Hosts and Guests". In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage, 2017. https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-international-encyclopedia-of-travel-and-tourism/i6110.xml.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Simoni, Valerio. "To make a difference: Responding to migration’s demands in returns to Cuba". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2024):
    In press
  2. Valerio Simoni; Jérémie Voirol; Elise Hjalmarson. "Comparative moves: the pursuit of value and belonging in transnational migration toward a “better life”". Ethnic and Racial Studies (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2354321.
    10.1080/01419870.2024.2354321
  3. Simoni, Valerio; Voirol, Jérémie. "Remittances and morality: family obligations, development, and the ethical demands of migration". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 11 (2020): 2516-2536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2020.1779678.
    Published • 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1779678
  4. Simoni, Valerio. "Appartenances et identifications à l’épreuve. Migrants en visite de retour à Cuba". Ethnographiques.org (2019): https://www.ethnographiques.org/2019/Simoni.
    Published • 10.25667/ethnographiques/2019-37/003
  5. Simoni, Valerio. "Tourism, Migration, and Back in Cuba". American Anthropologist 121 3 (2019): 755-760. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.13307.
    Published • 10.1111/aman.13307
  6. Simoni, Valerio. "Approaching Difference, Inequality, and Intimacy in Tourism: A View from Cuba". Journal of Anthropological Research 74 4 (2018): 503-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699942.
    Published • 10.1086/699942
  7. Simoni, Valerio. "Informal Guiding: Enacting Immediacy, Informality and Authenticity in Cuba". Ethnologia Europaea 48 2 (2018): 14-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ee.1956.
    Published • 10.16995/ee.1956
  8. Simoni, Valerio. "Sex, seduction, and care for the other in touristic Cuba". Téoros 37 2 (2018): 1-17. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18163.
    Open access • Published
  9. Simoni, Valerio. "Business, Hospitality, and Change in Cuba’s Private Tourism Sector: A View from 'Casas Particulares' in Viñales". Tourism Planning & Development 15 3 (2017): 293-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2017.1399436.
    Published • 10.1080/21568316.2017.1399436
  10. Simoni, Valerio. ""Capitalism Is Just around the Corner": A View on Tourism and Economic Development from Rural Cuba". Anthropology News 58 4 (2017): e193-e199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/an.574.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/an.574
  11. Simoni, Valerio. "Economization, moralization, and the changing moral economies of ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ among Cuban migrants in Spain". Anthropological Theory 16 4 (2016): 454-475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499616684053.
    Published • 10.1177/1463499616684053
  12. Francisco Martínez; Mariya Ivancheva; Valerio Simoni; Martin Demant Frederiksen; Livia Jiménez; Laura Hirvi; Kacper Poblocki; et al. "Rethinking Euro-anthropology: part three. Early career scholars forum". Social Anthropology 24 3 (2016): 353-379. https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1469-8676.12327.
    Published • 10.1111/1469-8676.12327
  13. Simoni, Valerio. "Ethnography, Mutuality, and the Utopia of Love and Friendship in Touristic Cuba". Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 8 3 (2016): 143-167. https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/jasoonline-2016.
    Open access • Published
  14. Piscitelli, Adriana; Simoni, Valerio. "Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change: introduction". Etnografica 19 2 (2015): 293-299. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.4010.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.4010
  15. Simoni, Valerio. "Breadwinners, sex machines and romantic lovers: entangling masculinities, moralities, and pragmatic concerns in touristic Cuba". Etnografica 19 2 (2015): 389-411. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.4039.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.4039
  16. Simoni, Valerio. "Intimacy and Belonging in Cuban Tourism and Migration". The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 33 2 (2015): 26-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ca.2015.330204.
    Published • 10.3167/ca.2015.330204
  17. Piscitelli, A.; Simoni, Valerio. "Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change: Introduction | Masculinidades em tempos de incerteza e mudanças". Etnografica 19 2 (2015): 293-299. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933505575&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published
  18. Simoni, Valerio. "Breadwinners, sex machines and romantic lovers: Entangling masculinities, moralities, and pragmatic concerns in touristic Cuba | Provedores de sustento, máquinas sexuais e amantes românticos: Masculinidades, moralidades e preocupações pragmáticas interligadas na Cuba turística". Etnografica 19 2 (2015): 389-411. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933527428&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published
  19. Simoni, Valerio. "From tourist to person: the value of intimacy in touristic Cuba". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 12 3 (2014): 280-292. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766825.2014.934054.
    Published • 10.1080/14766825.2014.934054
  20. Sofia Sampaio; Valerio Simoni; Cyril Isnart. "Tourism and transformation: negotiating metaphors, experiencing change". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 12 2 (2014): 93-101. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766825.2014.924674.
    Published • 10.1080/14766825.2014.924674
  21. Simoni, Valerio. "Coping with ambiguous relationships: sex, tourism, and transformation in Cuba". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 12 2 (2014): 166-183. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766825.2014.915093.
    Published • 10.1080/14766825.2014.915093
  22. Valerio Simoni; C. Jason Throop. "Introduction". Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society (2014): https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.124705.
    10.30676/jfas.124705
  23. Simoni, Valerio. "The morality of friendship in touristic Cuba". Suomen Antropologi 39 1 (2014): 19-36. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905509607&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.30676/jfas.124706
  24. Simoni, Valerio; Jason Thoop. "Introduction: Friendship, morality, and experience". Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 39 1 (2014): 4-18. https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/issue/view/8825.
    Open access • Published
  25. Simoni, Valerio. "Intimate Stereotypes: The Vicissitudes of Being Caliente in Touristic Cuba". Civilisations 62 (2013): 181-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3320.
    Published • 10.4000/civilisations.3320
  26. Simoni, Valerio. "Revisiting Hosts and Guests: Ethnographic Insights on Touristic Encounters from Cuba". Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends , 39-62 6 2 (2013): 39-62. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=248980.
    Published
  27. Valerio Simoni. "Sociologie du tourisme". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 8 1-2 (2010): 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766821003661299.
    10.1080/14766821003661299
  28. Simoni, Valerio. "Scaling cigars in the Cuban tourism economy". Etnografica 13 2 (2009): 417-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.1331.
    Open access • Published • 10.4000/etnografica.1331
  29. Simoni, Valerio; McCabe, Scott. "From ethnographers to tourists and back again". Civilisations 57 (2008): 173-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.1276.
    Published • 10.4000/civilisations.1276
  30. Simoni, Valerio. "Shifting Power: The (De)Stabilization of Asymmetries in the Realm of Tourism in Cuba". Tsansta: Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association 13 (2008): 89-97. https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=tsa-002:2008:13::219#94.
    Open access • Published
  31. Simoni, V.. "'Riding' diversity: Cubans'/jineteros' uses of 'nationality-talks' in the realm of their informal encounters with tourists". Tourism Development: Growth, Myths and Inequalities (2008): 68-84. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890197485&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  32. Simoni, Valerio. "‘Hello my friend! Have a Look Inside, Special Price!’ Interazioni verbali tra commercianti e turisti in Ladakh (India)". Babylonia 2 5 (2005): 58-61. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAMQw7AJahcKEwiYsa3ulNz-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbabylonia.ch%2Ffileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fdocuments%2F2005-2%2Fsimoni.pdf&psig=AOvVaw3eDIDNJrboaxgjrpFrnRaR&ust=1683306743728746.
    Open access • Published
  33. Simoni, Valerio. "Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice". International Journal of Tourism Research 6 5 (2004): 375-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jtr.497.
    Published • 10.1002/jtr.497
Journal issue
  1. Carine Plancke; Simoni, Valerio; Plancke, Carine; Simoni, Valerio. "Ethnographier les affects: captures, résistances, attachements". Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology 23 (2018): https://journal-sa.ch/issue/view/1095.
    Published • 10.36950/tsantsa.2018.18.7284 • Coeditor
  2. Simoni, Valerio; Adriana Piscitelli. "Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change". Etnografica 19 2 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.3981.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.3981 • Coeditor
  3. Simoni, Valerio; Throop, J.. "Friendship, morality, and experience". Suomen Antropologi 39 1 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905488052&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
  4. Sampaio, S.; Simoni, V.; Isnart, C.. "Tourism and Transformation: Negotiating Metaphors, Experiencing Change". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 12 2 (2014): https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtcc20/12/2?nav=tocList.
    Published • 10.1080/14766825.2014.924674 • Coeditor
  5. Sampaio, Sofia; Simoni, Valerio; Isnart, Cyril. "Special Issue 'Tourism and transformation: negotiating metaphors, experiencing change'". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 12 2 (2014): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14766825.2014.924674.
    Published
Preprint
  1. Valerio Simoni; Jérémie Voirol; Elise Hjalmarson. "Reckoning with comparison in the quest for a “better life”: Insights from Cuban and Ecuadorian migration". 2023. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3286846/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-3286846/v1
  2. Valerio Simoni. "To make a difference: Responding to migration and its (im)possible demands in returns to Cuba". 2023. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/p6se5.
    10.31235/osf.io/p6se5
  3. Valerio Simoni; Jérémie Voirol; Elise Hjalmarson. "Reckoning with comparison in the quest for a “better life”: Insights from Cuban and Ecuadorian migration". 2023. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yrbe3.
    10.31235/osf.io/yrbe3

Other

Dataset
  1. Valerio Simoni. Embodied Intensities of Seduction: Enacting the Dance-Sex Continuum in Touristic Cuba.
    10.1037/e635902011-001
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/16 Dispositif de reconnaissance symbolique des collectivités portugaises de Genève Séminaire du Bureau de l'Intégration et de la Citoyenneté, Département de la Cohesion Sociale, République et Canton de Genève
République et canton de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
2022/07 ‘Migration, Compelling Visions of the “Good Life”, and the Struggle for Alternatives in Cuban Transnational Mobilities’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Belfast, United Kingdom)
2022/06 ‘“Migrant”, “Tourist”, “Cuban”: Identification and Belonging in Returns to Cuba’ Moving Mobilities Online Lecture Series (EASA-Anthromob)
EASA-Anthromob
2022/02 ‘Ethics, Success, and Contentious Freedom in Return Migration to Cuba’ Senior Research Seminar, Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2021/06 Enacting the Good Life and Getting Stuck: Moral Economies and Articulations of Value in Touristic Viñales, Cuba
University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
2021/04 Demanding Comparisons: Interrogating Migration and the 'Good Life' in Spain, Ecuador, and Cuba ANSO Colloquium
Graduate Institute (Geneva, Switzerland)
2021/04 ‘Vulnerability in and of the Field’ Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association
Swiss Anthropological Association
2021/03 Negotiating Ethical Procedures and the Demands of Ethnography: From Research Proposal to the Field Research Ethics in Anthropology: Which Good Practices?
Ethical and Deontological Think Tank of the Swiss Anthropological Association (Switzerland)
2021/01 ‘Freedom and Obligation: Challenges from Return Migration in Cuba’ Seminar of the Research Group Identities, Cultures, Vulnerabilities
Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/01 ‘Dubious Returns and the Imperative of “Success”: Some Reflections from Return Migration to Cuba’ Workshop Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities
Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/11 Making a Difference: Expectations and Reconfigurations of Value in Return Migration to Cuba Laboratorio demo-etno-antropologico
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, Nov. 2020 (Venice, Italy)
2020/09 The Moral Economy in Tourism: A View from Rural Cuba International Workshop 'Living with Tourism: Paradoxes, Empowerment and Future Directions'
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/11 ‘Moral Articulations of Economic Life in Returns to Ecuador and Cuba’ American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Vancouver, Canada)
2019/11 ‘From Worker to Owner: Emerging Moralities of “Trabajo” and “Negocio” in Return Migration to Cuba’ American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Vancouver, Canada)
2019/06 'Tourism, Migration, and Back in Cuba’ Workshop 'Freedom, Power and Time in Tourism'
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
2019/05 ‘Retourner vers un lieu meilleur? (Ré)évaluer la « bonne vie » en temps de crise’ Séminaire de géographie et mobilité
Université de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
2019/03 ‘¿Regresando a un lugar mejor? trayectorias migratorias Cuba–España–Cuba y la (re)evaluación de la “buena vida”’ Séminaire Avancé, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique latine
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (Paris, France)
2018/05 ‘(Re)assessing Cuba and the “Good Life” from the Touristic Borderzone' Latin American Studies Association International Congress
(Barcelona, Spain)
2016/11 ‘Precarious intimacies in Cuban tourism and migration’ American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Minneapolis, United States)
2016/10 ‘Tourism and Social Science Analogies: A View from Cuba’ 'Penser (avec et par) le tourisme' Seminar
University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2016/07 ‘Spanish Precarities, Cuban Intimacies, and Vice Versa: Rethinking Sentiment and Economy among Cuban Migrants’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Milano, Italy)
2016/06 ‘Articulating Work, Leisure, and Change “the Cuban Way”’ VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/06 ‘Cultural Entrepreneurship, Self–Stylization, and the Shifting Value of Being Cuban in Barcelona’ VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/01 ‘Caught in–between: Economy, Intimacy, and the Negotiation of the Tourist/Cuban Self on Return Visits to Cuba’ Workshop 'Voyages ‘retour’, ‘quêtes’ de voyageurs. À la recherche d’indices, de traces et de routes'
University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2015/11 ‘Approaching Difference, Inequality, and Intimacy in Tourism: A View from Cuba’ American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Denver, United States)
2015/10 ‘Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba’ Anthropology of Tourism and Travel Seminar Series
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2015/09 ‘Migration’s Desire: Comparative Insights on the Imaginaries and Subjectivitites of (Im)mobility’ EASA Anthropology of Mobility Workshop 'Grounding (Im)Mobility: Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies'
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/06 ‘Devenir touriste dans son pays ? Reconfigurations d’appartenance dans le milieu du tourisme á Cuba’ Congress of the Swiss Sociological Society
(Lausanne, Switzerland)
2015/05 ‘Genre et moralité du binôme amour–argent dans la Cuba touristique’ Séminaire interdisciplinaire Tourisme : Recherches – Institutions – Pratiques
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (Paris, France)
2015/01 ‘Aspirations of Love, Mobility and Freedom in Cuban Tourism and Migration’ The Dynamics of Transcultural Management and Governance in Latin America, XIII Workshop Perspectives of Future for Latin America/ns
Swiss National Science Foundation ProDoc Program, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
2014/12 ‘Suspicion and Its Suspension in Tourism: Reformulating Intimacies in Cuba’ American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Washington, United States)
2014/11 ‘Touristic Encounters and Intimacies: Ethnographic Insights from Cuba’ Ateliers d’anthropologie
University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2014/07 ‘Tourism Expectations and Anthropological Analogies: A view from Touristic Intimacies in Cuba’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Tallinn, Estonia)
2014/06 ‘Articulating “Capitalism”, “Communism”, and “Crisis” among Cuban Migrants in Spain’ Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Conference
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2014/05 Intimacy, Belonging, and Competing Aspirations in Touristic Cuba Interdisciplinary Workshop 'Probing the Intimate: Cross–Cultural Queries of Proximity and Beyond'
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2014/03 ‘Love, Mobilities, and Subjectivity: from Cuba to Spain to the World’ Seminar 'Mobilities / Immobilities: A Dialogue in Two Parts on Desire of Migration and Border Devices'
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/09 ‘Uncovering Multiplicity: Ethnography of Touristic Encounters in Cuba and Its Theoretical Implications’ EASA Anthropology of Mobility Workshop 'Fielding Challenges, Challenging the Field: The Methodologies of Mobility'
(Oxford, United Kingdom)
2013/09 ‘Interest, Sentiment, and Hybridity: Mapping Competing Approaches to Intimacy in Touristic Cuba’ V Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
(Vila Real, Portugal)
2013/06 ‘Global Mobility: An Introduction’ Global Studies Programme
Akita International University (Akita, Japan)
2013/04 ‘The Value of Sentiment and Interest: (De)contextualizing Intimacy in Touristic Cuba’ International Conference 'Intimate Migrations'
(Roskilde and Copenhagen, Denmark)
2012/11 ‘Amor, interés y moralidad en la Cuba turística y transnacional’ Sexualidad, género, amor y erotismo en la contemporaneidad: dos aproximaciones etnograficas
Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain)
2012/09 ‘Embodying the Cigar Tradition in Touristic Cuba’ International Conference 'Re-membering the Body'
University of Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
2012/07 ‘Love, Interest, and Morality in Touristic Cuba’ International Congress of Americanists
(Vienna, Austria)
2012/07 ‘Breadwinners, Sex Machines and Romantic Lovers: Entangling Masculinities, Moralities, and Pragmatic Concerns in Touristic Cuba’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Nanterre, France)
2012/03 ‘Intimate Stereotypes: Becoming Caliente in Touristic Cuba’ Centre for Research in Anthropology Seminar
Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/11 ‘Time and Morality of Friendship in Touristic Cuba’ Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
(Montreal, Canada)
2011/10 ‘Encountering Tourism Studies / Studying Tourism Encounters’ Tourism Graduate School Seminars
University of Rikkyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2010/11 ‘Embodied Intensities of Seduction: Enacting the Dance–Sex Continuum in Touristic Cuba’ Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
(New Orleans, United States)
2010/09 ‘La experiencia de trabajo de campo en la Cuba turística’ América Latina Hoje Summer School
Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010/08 ‘Globalising Relational Idioms and the Trials of Inequality: Friendships in Touristic Cuba’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Maynooth, Ireland)
2010/05 ‘(Dis)Connecting Difference and the Reformulation of Relational Idioms in Touristic Cuba’ 'Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures' Conference
University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2008/11 ‘L’interculturalité comme justification dans le domaine de relations sexuelles en milieu touristique à Cuba’ Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association
(Geneva, Switzerland)
2008/08 ‘Shaping Money and Socialities in the Realm of Encounters between Foreign Tourists and Cubans/Jineteros’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2007/11 ‘Un yuma entre jineteros? Implications méthodologiques et enjeux de pouvoir dans une ethnographie des rencontres touristiques à Cuba’ Seminaires du Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et Représentations Politiques
Université de Paris 7–Denis Diderot (Paris, France)
2007/11 ‘Amour / Amitié / Intérêt? La négociation de relations dans le domaine des rencontres informelles entre touristes et Cubains’ Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association
(Basel, Switzerland)
2007/04 ‘Cigars as Mediators: Tobacco and its Deployments with Tourists in Cuba’ Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Conference
(London, United Kingdom)
2007/04 ‘From Ethnographer to Tourist and Back Again: On Positioning Strategies in the Anthropology of Tourism’ Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Conference
(London, United Kingdom)
2006/09 ‘The Informal Economy within the Realm of Tourism: The Phenomenon of Jineterismo in Cuba’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
(Bristol, United Kingdom)
2004/05 ‘Tourists’ Verbal Performances and Authenticity Construction in the Ladakh Festival, India’ International Conference 'Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice'
(Innsbruck, Austria)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current Digital inclusion strategies: Mapping approaches to promote access to jobs and entrepreneurship in the digital economy among groups at risk of exclusion
Supervisor
 Master in (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland
2024/09 - Current Leveraging the Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Border Management Systems
Supervisor
International Organization for Migration, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2024/09 - Current Drug-affected and marginalized youth in Germany, Liberia and Switzerland – can their effective and sustainable empowerment contribute to reduce violent conflicts, improve security and stabilize peace?
Supervisor
Angie Brooks International Centre for Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security - ABIC , Liberia

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2024/09 - Current Global South Led Methodology on Sport for Protection/MHPSS Programming for People Affected by Displacement
Supervisor
Olympic Refuge Foundation, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2024/09 - Current Mind the Justice Gap: Empowering Displaced Workers through Accessible Labour Rights Protection
Supervisor
Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2023/09/01 - Current Labour Mobility as a Complementary Pathway for Refugees: Ensuring Protection and Decent Work
Supervisor
 International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland
2023/09/01 - Current The Fundamental Role of Digital Identity in the Global South
Supervisor
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

International Organization for Migration, Switzerland
2023/09/01 - Current Urban Environments for Children: A Situational Analysis of Cities in Colombia, Kenya and Bangladesh
Supervisor
 International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

Save the Children International, United Kingdom
2023/09/01 - Current Enhancing Engagement Levels in Digital Volunteering Programs for Positive Social Impact
Supervisor
 International and Development Studies: Applied Research Projects (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

CyberPeace Institute, Switzerland
2023/09/01 - Current 'Football’ and ‘Social Enterprises’ – Promising ways to help at-risk and marginalized youth in Europe and West Africa out of drug addiction?
Supervisor
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

Angie Brooks International Centre for Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security - ABIC , Liberia
2019 - Current From Iron Fist to Liquid Gaze: Mobility Veillances and the Configuration of ‘Ganglands’ across Waters
Co-supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology (PhD)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017 - Current Wine Complexities: Artisanalism and Sentiments in Turkey
Co-supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology (PhD)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2018/09 - 2024/09 Cargando con Cuba: The Embodied Labor of Becoming Transnational among Cuban Migrants in Spain
Co-supervisor of Elise Hjalmarson
 Anthropology and Sociology (PhD)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement Anthropologie et sociologie du développement, Switzerland
2021 - 2023/06 (Re)Producing Gendered and Racialized ‘Others’ within a Discourse of Equality: Street-Level Bureaucrats at the Frontlines of Integration Policy Implementation in Zurich, Switzerland
Supervisor
 Development Studies (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2023 - 2023 National Labour Migration Policies: A Review
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Master)
Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2023 - 2023 Investigating the Effect of Employment and Migration Status on Migrants’ Transition into and out of the Digital Platform Economy
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019 - 2023 Unseen: Gender-Based Violence Against Latin American Migrant Women in Europe
Supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2022 - 2022 Assessment of Vulnerability to Food Insecurity Across Target Populations in Four Countries: Afghanistan, Libya, South Sudan and Ethiopia
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
World Food Programme, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2022 - 2022 A Critical Comparison of the UNHCR’s and the IOM’s Strategies for Addressing Migration in the Context of Climate Change, Disasters, and Environmental Degradation
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
International Council of Voluntary Agencies, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2022 Abominable Gazes Extraordinary Conditions and Ordinary Moral Struggles among Chinese Sex Workers in Paris
Co-supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2022 An Exploration of the Identity Politics Framing Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2022 Humanitarianism, Persuasive Narratives and Geopolitics: Venezuelan Migration in Colombia and Its Transformations within Government Official Discourses
Supervisor
 International Affairs (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2022 Venice for ‘Venetians’: Making of the ‘Good’ Host and ‘Good’ Guest
Supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2022 Back Then It was Culture, Now It is Animal Torture: Moral-Phenomenological Milieu of Human-Elephant Entanglements in Kerala
Co-supervisor
 Anthropology and Sociology] (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019 - 2022 Where Goes the Neighborhood? Refugee Resettlement and Urban Development in a Disempowered City
Supervisor
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2018 - 2022 Unraveling the Swiss Asylum System: An Enquiry into the Suicide of an Asylum Seeker
Supervisor
 Development Studies (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 - 2021 Effective Development Assistance Instruments and Initiatives to Support Tourism for Rural Development in the Context of the 2030 Agenda
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
Organización Mundial del Turism, Spain

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 - 2021 Thematic Bonds Report
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 - 2021 Promoting Social Cohesion and Peaceful Coexistence through Employment and Decent Work Programs: Case Study Mauritania
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
Organisation internationale du Travail, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019 - 2021 Calling in the Cavalry: Diaspora Engagement through a Reimagined Zimbabwe Diaspora Policy
Supervisor
 Development Studies (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2018 - 2021 ‘In and Out of Time’: Tourism, Belonging and Inequality in the Swiss Alps
Co-supervisor
 Social Anthropology (PhD)
Universität Bern, Switzerland
2020 - 2020 Child Friendly Cities in the Global South
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
Save the Children, United Kingdom

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2020 Calculating Humanitarian Crises’ Risks to Improve Response Capacity
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Research Project (Specialization course)
ACAPS, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2018 - 2020 ‘Integration’ of Displaced Persons through Sports for Development and Peace
Supervisor
 Development Studies (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2018 - 2020 Cash Vouchers Assistance and Humanitarian Action: Efficiency and Accountability as Humanitarian Ethics
Supervisor
 Development Studies (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019 - 2019 In Search of Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Private Sector Employment of Internally Displaced Persons
Supervisor
 Master in International and Development Studies: Applied Resarch Project (Specialization course)
International Organization for Migration, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019 - 2019 Supporting Durable Return of IDPs: An Assessment of IOM DTM Data
Supervisor
 Master in International andDevelopment Studies: Applied ResarchProject (Specialization course)
International Organization for Migration, Switzerland

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017 - 2019 Is Volunteer Tourism Orientalist? A Postcolonial Approach
Supervisor
 Development Studies (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2015 - 2017 Gender Relations in Cuban Popular Music
Co-supervisor
 International Affairs
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2022/09 International Workshop 'Migration and Belonging in Times of Crisis: Troubling Transnationalism and Home- Making in Latin American Trajectories to/from Europe' (2022/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021/09 - 2021/09 Workshop of the Swiss School of Latin American Studies: 'Privileges: Theirs, Yours, Ours' (2021/09 - 2021/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021/06 - 2021/06 International Workshop: 'Trapped in Paradise' (2021/06)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universität Bern Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Switzerland
2021/04 - 2021/04 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association: 'Re–viewing ‘The Field’: Contemporary Debates and Approaches to Fieldwork' (2021/04)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Swiss Anthropological Association, Switzerland
2019/11 - 2019/11 Workshop 'Imaginaires de l'entreprenariat et de contextes économiques dans les situations de mobilité' (2019/11)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019/11 - 2019/11 'Articulating Morality in Return Migration': Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2019/11)
Symposium
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2019/05 - 2019/05 Module for the Swiss Graduate Programme in Anthropology (CUSO): 'Anthropological Encounters with Tourism' (2019/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Swiss Anthropological Association, Switzerland
2018/05 - 2018/05 'Ordinary Life Unfolds: Politics, Affects, and Futurity in Tourism Encounters in Cuba and Costa Rica': Panel at the Latin American Studies Association International Congress (2018/05)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Latin American Studies Association, United States
2016/11 - 2016/11 'Precarity of/in Intimacies, Migration, and Tourism': Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2016/11)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2016/11 - 2016/11 'Tourism and the dialectics of exclusion and inclusion': panel at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association: (2016/11)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Swiss Anthropological Association, Switzerland
2016/09 - 2016/09 International Seminar: 'Turismo en la región del Cusco' (2016/09)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru
2016/07 - 2016/07 'Mobility, Precarity, and the Activation of Kinship and Intimacy': Panel at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference (2016/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2015/11 - 2015/11 'Competing Imaginaries of the Familiar and the Strange in Heritage and Tourism Encounters': Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2015/11)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2015/09 - 2015/09 EASA Anthropology of Mobility Workshop: 'Grounding (Im)Mobility: Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies' (2015/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015/04 - 2015/04 'Migration’s Desire: Uncovering the Global Imaginaries and Subjectivitites of (Im)Mobility': Panel at the Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference (2015/04)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK, United Kingdom
2014/12 - 2014/12 'Suspicion and Its Suspension': Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2014/12)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2014/03 - 2014/05 Seminar: 'Mobilities / Immobilities: A Dialogue in Two Parts on Desire of Migration and Border Devices' (2014/03)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2012/07 - 2012/07 'Interest and Affect: Negotiating Intimacy and Economy in the Americas': Panel at the International Congress of Americanists (2012/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Universität Wien Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Austria
2012/07 - 2012/07 'Masculinities in Times of Uncertainty and Change': European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (2012/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2011/11 - 2011/11 'Friendship, Morality, and Experience': Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2011/11)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2011/09 - 2011/09 Congress: 'Gendered Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Dates' (2011/09)
Congress
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2010/07 - 2010/07 'Joining Phenomenologies and Political Economies of 'the Global’': Panel at the European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference (2010/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2008/03 - 2008/05 Workshop Series: 'Major Concepts in Tourism Research' (2008/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/04 - 2022/04 Invited Discussant for International Workshop 'Saving and Being Safe Away from Home'
Workshop
 Saving and Being Safe Away from Home
Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany

Frobenius Institut eV, Germany
2021/05 - 2021/05 Invited Discussant for Graduate Seminar 'New Approaches to Atlantic Worlds'
Seminar
 New Approaches to Atlantic Worlds Graduate Seminar
The University of Texas at Austin Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, United States
2020/12 - 2020/12 Invited Discussant for International Conference 'The Moral Economies of Knowledge Production on Migration: Conflicts, Values, Positionalities'
Congress
Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück, Germany
2020/01 - 2020/01 Invited Discussant for Workshop 'Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities'
Workshop
 'Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities', Annual Workshop of the EERNEP Project
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/08 - 2018/08 Invited Discussant for EASA Conference Panel 'Migration and the Imaginaries of ‘Good Life’'
Symposium
 'Migration and the Imaginaries of "Good Life"', Panel at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference
European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2015/11 - 2015/11 Invited Discussant for AAA Conference Panel 'Unsettling Normalization and Normalizing Crisis'
Symposium
 'Unsettling Normalization and Normalizing Crisis', Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
American Anthropological Association, United States
2015/01 - 2015/01 Invited Discussant for ProDoc Programme Workshop 'Perspectives of Future for Latin America/ns'
Workshop
 Perspectives of Future for Latin America/ns, XIII Workshop of the Swiss National Science Foundation ProDoc Program 'The Dynamics of Transcultural Management and Governance in Latin America'
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
2014/05 - 2014/05 Invited Discussant for SIEF Conference 'Making Sense of Religion: Performance, Art and Experience'
Conference
 'Making Sense of Religion: Performance, Art and Experience', 11th Conference of the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore , Netherlands
2013/11 - 2013/11 Invited Discussant for FCT Research Project Workshop 'The Magic of Self'
Workshop
 'The Magic of Self', Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Research Project Workshop
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2012/10 - 2012/10 Invited Discussant for Mobility and Anthropology E-seminar Series 'Everyday Mobility: The Normalization of China–Japan Migratory Flows and their Disjunctures'
Seminar
 'Everyday Mobility: The Normalization of China–Japan Migratory Flows and their Disjunctures', Mobility and Anthropology E–Seminar series, EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network
2012/09 - 2012/09 Invited Discussant for European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop 'The Two Sides of the Coin: Gypsy Economies between the State and the Market'
Workshop
 'The Two Sides of the Coin: Gypsy Economies between the State and the Market', European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

European Science Foundation, France
2012/06 - 2012/06 Invited Discussant for FCT Research Project Workshop 'The Magic of Social Life: Making Difference, Containing Other, Empowering Self'
Workshop
 'The Magic of Social Life: Making Difference, Containing Other, Empowering Self', FCT Research Project Workshop
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Antropologia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/02/08 Wine Complexities: Artisanalism and Sentiments in Turkey
President of the jury
 Atak Ayaz (PhD)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2023 The Culture of Capitalism in Vietnam: Vietnamese Canadians and Business Ownership within the Socialist-Oriented Market Economy
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nina Lam (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2022 The Only Way Out is Through: Examining Labour Migration Responses to COVID-19 and other Domestic Crises in Nepal
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rohit Ayyer (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 Partir, méditer sur le soi, et se transformer? Ethnographie d’un tourisme de retraite bouddhiste dans l’Himalaya indien
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ellina Mourtazina (PhD)
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
2021 Aquí (no) nos tocó vivir: Indigenous Experiences of Transnational Migration in Mexico and the United States
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Michelle Olguin Fluckliger (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 How Precarity is Created: The Labor Policies and the Labor Legislations from 20th to 21st Century in China
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Lefei Chen (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 Enquêter sur les structures d’opportunité des entrepreneurs en perspective transnationale : Le cas des italiens à La Havane
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tommaso Pirone (Master)
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
2019 Feminization and Stigmatization of Infertility in Malawi
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Boetumelo Julianne Nyasulu (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017 Returnees and the development project in Bengaluru: Brokering modernity from the in–between
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rosemary George (PhD)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017 To Hold or to Be Held? A Study of the Role of Smartphones and the App Industry in Urban China’s Everyday Life
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pamina Lia Monaco: (Master)
Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2016 « ¿Te gusta la Cubana ? » – ethnologie des rencontres intimes entre touristes et Cubaines à Cuba
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pierre-François Michaud (Master)
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2016 Du tourisme sans touristes ? La mise en tourisme d’une communauté paysanne des Andes péruviennes, entre discours, stratégies et interventions de développement
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sylvain Besençon (Master)
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2012 Paraísos cruzados: Itinerarios simétricos em Carabane, uma ilha túristica no Sul do Senegal
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisco Afonso de Carvalho Pinheiro Leitão (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/12/01 - Current Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Wiley
2021 - Current Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020 - Current American Ethnologist
2020 - Current Latin America Research Review
2020 - Current Revista del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CESLA)
2020 - Current Via Tourism Review
2019 - Current Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
2019 - Current Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
2019 - Current Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
2019 - Current Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia
2019 - Current MUSICultures
2018 - Current Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
2018 - Current The Latin Americanist
2018 - Current Quaderns de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia
2018 - Current On_Culture – Regional Science, Policy and Practice
2018 - Current Tourism Geographies
2016 - Current Social Anthropology
2016 - Current Civilisations: Revue internationale d'anthropologie et de sciences humaines
2016 - Current Journal of Consumer Culture
2016 - Current Tourism and Hospitality Research
2016 - Current Tourism Planning & Development
2015 - Current Research in Economic Anthropology
2015 - Current Revista de Dialectologia y Tradiciones Populares
2015 - Current Asian Journal of Tourism Research
2014 - Current Annals of Tourism Research
2013 - Current Journal of Tourism History
2012 - Current Etnografica: Journal of the Centre for Research in Anthropology
2011 - Current World Leisure Journal
2011 - Current Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
2009 - Current Tourism Recreation Research

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current United Nations Network on Migration Member
2018 - Current Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
2012 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA)
2010 - Current American Anthropological Association (AAA)
2010 - Current Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth (ASA)
2010 - Current Swiss Anthropological Association (SAS)
2006 - Current European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Member of Scientific Committee: 'EnQuêtes: Plateforme d’anthropologie'
Advisor / Consultant
2015 - Current American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting Programme Committee for the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG)
Member
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2015 - Current Representative for Switzerland, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism (IUAES-Tourism)
Member
 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Japan
2019 - 2020 Book Prize Committee: Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG), American Anthropological Association, ‘Nelson Graburn Book Prize’
Member
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2014/07 - 2018/07 Co-Convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob), 2014–2018.
Coordinator
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/10/10 - 2024/10/11 Co-organizer and Discussant for Research Workshop - UN Network on Migration - Workstream on Ensuring migrant protection through strengthened responses to migrant smuggling and increased coordination on its linkages with trafficking in persons United Nations Network on Migration
2023 - 2024 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference "Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn" CIES-ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
2021/04 - 2021/04 Re-viewing ‘The Field’: Contemporary Debates and Approaches to Fieldwork Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA)
2017/09 - 2017/09 Anthropologies of Media and Mobility: Theorizing Movement and Circulations across Entangled Fields European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob) and Media Anthropology Network
2015/09 - 2015/09 Grounding (Im)Mobility: Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob)
2015/06 - 2015/06 Worlds of Desire: The Eroticization of Tourist Sites University of Geneva
2012/07 - 2012/07 Regimes of Value in Tourism University of Lausanne

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/05/04 - Current Project Manager and Consultant - Bureau de l’intégration et de la citoyenneté (BIC), Département de la cohésion sociale (DCS), République et canton de Genève, Geneva Bureau de l'intégration et de la citoyenneté, Département de la cohésion sociale, République et canton de Genève, Switzerland
2023/10 - Current Consultant for the United Nations Network on Migration - Workstream 4: "Ensuring migrant protection through strengthened responses to migrant smuggling and increased coordination on its linkages with trafficking in person" United Nations Network on Migration, Switzerland
2023 - Current Berghahn Books - Review of Book Proposals Berghahn Books Inc, United States
2010 - Current Tourism and Cultural Change Book Series - Review of Book Proposals Channel View Publications, United Kingdom
2018 - 2020 Consultant for the Exhibition 'Le mal du voyage', Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel. Université de Neuchâtel Institut d'ethnologie, Switzerland
2010/01 - 2010/06 York Renaissance - Economic and Visioning Masterplanning Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom

Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency, United Kingdom
2004/06 - 2004/09 Event Organiser: International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) Europe International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) Europe, United Kingdom

Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current Migration Studies Doctoral Programme Migration Studies (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/02 - Current Faculty Lead for the Applied Research Projects Programme of the Master in International and Development Studies Applied Research Projects (Master) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2024/02 - 2024/07 Lecturer in 'Tourism Mobilities'; 'Anthropology of Power'; 'MA thesis seminar'; 'Introduction to Social Anthropology' (BA & MA courses in Social Anthropology) Tourism Mobilities; Anthropology of Power; MA thesis seminar; Introduction to Social Anthropology (Master) Université de Neuchâtel Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, Switzerland
2023/02 - 2023/07 Ethnographic Writing MA Anthropology and Sociology (Master) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019/02 - 2023/02 Mobilities, Migrations and Boundaries, Applied Research Projects Programme Academic Supervisor Interdisciplinary MA International and Development Studies (Master) Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2022 - 2022 Antropología del turismo Postgraduate Programme in Anthropology Instituto Cubano de Antropología, Cuba
2021 - 2022 Critical Perspectives on Migration: Mobilities, Borders, and Transnational Connections MA Anthropology and Sociology Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2021 - 2022 Anthropology and Tourism: Encounters through Difference and Inequality MA Anthropology and Sociology Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2020 - 2021 Of Good and Evil: an Anthropology of Ethics and Local Moralities MA Anthropology and Sociology Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2019 - 2020 Anthropology of Tourism MA Anthropology and Sociology Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2018 - 2019 The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Heritage MA Anthropology and Sociology Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2017 - 2018 Anthropologie du tourisme et du voyage MA Tourism Studies Université de Lausanne Faculté des Geosciences et de l'environnement, Switzerland
2017 - 2018 The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Heritage BA and MA Social Anthropology Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
2016 - 2017 Anthropology of Tourism MA Anthropology and Sociology Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland
2014 - 2016 Anthropologie de l'hospitalité BA International Hospitality École Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2015 Research Design PhD Tourism (Doutoramento) Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Geografia do turismo BA Turismo (Licenciatura) Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Sexuality and Morality: Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations Grundtvig Training Activity: European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme (Outros) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Sexuality and Morality: From Religious Taboos to the Commerce of Intimacy Summer School (Outros) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Turismo e Cultura. Encontros íntimos e institucionais Summer School Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024/10 - Current Member of "The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)" College (Panels 2025-2027)
Evaluator
 Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Belgium
2018 - 2022 Evaluation of PhD Candidates Admission to the Doctoral Programme in Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)
Evaluator
 Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, Switzerland Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021/06 - 2021/06 Podcast for the series Fields Looking for a Good life: When Cuban Migrants Return Home
2021/06 - 2021/06 Alla ricerca della cultura, Federazione trentina Pro Loco, Trento Turismo Cultura Comunità: Una possibilità
2019/05 - 2019/05 Philo d'un mot: Le voyage

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - Current Mondes du Tourisme (2492-7503) Open Edition Journals
2015 - Current Asian Journal of Tourism Research (2465-5015)
2011 - Current Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology (2813-5237) Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA)
Distinctions

Award

2019 Scientific Award of ISCTE-IUL for Journal Article Publication
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 Nelson Graburn Book Prize Award (ATIG) for "Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba"
American Anthropological Association, United States
2015 Scientific Award of ISCTE-IUL for Journal Article Publication
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Title

2024 College Member for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (Panels 2025-2027)
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Belgium
2023 Member of the United Nations Network on Migration
United Nations Network on Migration, Switzerland
2015 Representative for Switzerland, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism (IUAES-Tourism)
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Japan
2014 Co-Convenor Anthropology and Mobility Network (EASA AnthroMob 2014-2018)
European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom

Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob) EASA, United Kingdom