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Elizabeth Challinor holds a BA in Modern Languages and Literature French, Spanish (Oxford University 1988), a Masters in Rural and Social Development (Reading University 1993) and a Masters and PhD in Social Anthropology (Sussex University 1996, 2001). She has carried out field work in Cape Verde and Portugal. Her research areas include development anthropology, motherhood and migration, public policy and refugee reception and she has published widely on these topics in books and journals. Her current research is on the role of the law in the decision-making of migrants and refugees in Portugal (2021.02343.CEECIND) at CRIA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Elizabeth Pilar Challinor

Citation names

  • Challinor, Elizabeth
  • Elizabeth Pilar Challinor

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7F19-5F4A-A118
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4374-067X
Scopus Author Id
55203533000

Email addresses

  • e.p.challinor@gmail.com (Professional)
  • epchallinor@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Languages

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/11/16 - 2020/11/20
Attended
Migration, asylum and nationality laws in Portugal. Direito de Estrangeiros: o Direito de Asilo, Imigração e Nacionalidade¿ (Outros)
Jurisnova Associação da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/06/13 - 2018/06/16
Attended
Migration, asylum and nationality laws in Portugal. Direito de Estrangeiros: o Contencioso de Asilo, Imigração e Nacionalidade (Outros)
Jurisnova Associação da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/07/24 - 2017/07/26
Attended
Summer school Migrants and Refugees at the Crossroads of the EU Crisis (Outros)
CICP Research Center in Political Science, University of Minho, Portugal
2016/11/11 - 2016/11/21
Attended
Awareness Raising on Asylum and Refugee Reception in Portugal. ECurso de Sensibilização sobre Asilo e Refugiados (Outros)
Conselho Português para os Refugiados, Portugal
2001
Concluded
Social Anthropology (Doutoramento)
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
"Reversals and Contradictions: the Study of Development as Social Practice from the Case of Cape Verde" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
N/A
1995
Concluded
MA in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation (Mestrado)
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
"Migration and Identity: the Case of Cape Verde" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
1993
Concluded
Rural Social Development (Mestrado)
University of Reading, United Kingdom
"Managing the Relief/Development Dichotomy: Issues and Options for NGOs with Special Reference to Angola" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Pass
1984
Concluded
Modern Languages: French and Spanish (Licenciatura)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2/2 Distinction in oral French
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/05/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2019/05/15 - 2022/03/14 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2018/03/31 Postdoc (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2014/12/15 - 2016/11/15 Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2009/07/01 - 2014/06/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2008/04/01 - 2009/06/01 Postdoc (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2003/11/01 - 2007/02/01 Postdoc (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/04/01 - 2019/05/15 Independent research with informal affiliation to research centre Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2016/11/16 - 2017/12/31 Independent research with informal affiliation to research centre Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/01/01 - 2018/03/31 Refugee and migrant hospitality in northern Portugal.
CRIA BPD_04038_GPQ1
Post-doc
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2003/11/01 - 2007/02/01 The production of local modernities in the social practices of development in Cape Verde
SFRH/BPD/14546/2003
Post-doc
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/06/06 - Current PATHSCAPES - Postcolonial Atlas of Cape Verdean women in European
ID 101143747
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
European Commission
Submitted
2022/09/01 - Current eSefarad: modalities and practices of digital patrimonialization of the Sephardic cultural legacy in Mediterranean contexts
UID/ANT/04038/2020
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/09/15 - Current (Member) Integration of Refugees in Portugal: Assessing Moral Duties and Integration Policies in the Context of European Values and Policies
PTDC/FER-ETC/30378/2017
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/05/01 - 2028/04/30 The Power to Decide: the Study of the Role of the Law in Migrant and Refugee Decision-Making in Portugal
2021.02343.CEECIND/CP1701/CT0002
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/01/03 - 2023/04/30 Justice, equality and rights of migrant women: narratives and artistic practices for inclusion JUSTA - Justiça, igualdade e direitos da mulher migrante: narrativas e práticas artísticas para a inclusão
UID/04038/2020
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2021/06/01 - 2021/09/07 #ECOS Exiles, countering the silence: memories, objects and narratives of uncertain times
609056-CITIZ-1-2019-1-PT-CITIZ-REMEM
Participation in a play writing workshop
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
European Commission
Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2021/08/31 Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos: Portugal 2008-2018 Negotiating Livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2010-20¿ (PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017)
PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017
FCT PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
UID/ANT/04038/2019
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/12/15 - 2016/11/15 Mobile Citizens and the State: Cape Verdeans in Portugal.
CONT_DOUT/119/CRIA/4038/10779/1/2008
Post-doc
2012 - 2015 Care as sustainability in times of crisis .
PTDC/CS-ANT/117259/2010
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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
2010/01/15 - 2013/07/14 Imigrantes e serviços de apoio social: tecnologias de cidadania em Portugal
PTDC/CS-ANT/101179/2008
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/11 - 2011 T-Share Transcultural Skills for Health and Care
504666-LLP-2009-1-IT-Leonardo-LMP
Researcher
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022/10/19 - Current COST action: History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration (HIDDEN)
CA21120
Researcher
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
2018/04/01 - 2019/05/15 Refugee and migrant hospitality in northern Portugal
Unfunded
Post-doc
Concluded
2016/11/16 - 2017/12/31 Refugee and migrant hospitality in Northern Portugal
No funding
Post-doc
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth; Octávio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva. Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses from the Global North. Portugal: Edições Húmus. 2020.
    Published • Editor
  2. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). Bargaining in the Development Market Place Insights from Cape Verde. Germany: Lit Verlag. 2008.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, M.. Corresponding author: Challinor, Elizabeth. "Repensar o conceito de integração à luz do bem-estar no contexto de acolhimento de refugiados em Portugal.". 2024.
    Under revision
  2. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Who Marks the Borders of the (Un)Known? Relational Reflexivity in the Production of a Play on Forced Mobility in Northern Portugal". In Represensting 21st Century Migration in Europe. Berghahn books, 2022.
    Published
  3. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Cutting the Apron Strings. Contested Interpretations of Refugee Autonomy in Portugal". In Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses in the Global North. Edições Húmus, 2020.
    Published
  4. Challinor, Elizabeth; Octavio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva. "Stranded in Mobility: a Crisis of Refuge". In Quest for refuge: Reception responses from the Global North. Portugal: Edições Húmus, 2020.
    Published
  5. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Antropologia, Moralidade e Saber Profissional". edited by Caria, Telmo H.. Viseu, Portugal: Psicosoma, 2017.
    Published
  6. Challinor, Elizabeth. "To be or not to be? Cape verdean student mothers in Portugal". In The Cultural Politics of Reproduction Migration Health and Family Making. United Kingdom, 2015.
    Published
  7. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Contributo para uma reflexão sobre a relação entre género, sexo e parentesco em Cabo Verde". In As Ciências Sociais em Cabo Verde: Temáticas, Abordagens e Perspectivas Teóricas. Praia, Cape Verde: Edições Uni-CV, 2015.
    Published
  8. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "From Cultural Explanation to Intercultural Dialogue: a Contribution to the Study of Cape Verdean Maternal Health in Portugal". 2014.
    Published
  9. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Cape Verdean Migrants and Extended Mothering". In Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives. Canada: Demeter Press, 2011.
    Published
  10. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Up for Grabs Civil Society in a Field of Conflicting Representations: A Case Study from Cape Verde". In Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State. United States: Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
    Published
Book review
  1. Elizabeth Challinor. "Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves and Aminah N. Fernandes Pilgrim, eds. Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.00 Paper. ISBN: 9781793634917.". 66, 3 (2023): 853-855. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.38.
    Published • 10.1017/asr.2023.38
Conference abstract
  1. Silva, Pedro Gabriel ; Sacramento, Octávio ; Challinor, Elizabeth. "Rights on the Ground: Street Level Bureaucrats’ Understandings and Practices of Refugee Protection in Portugal". Paper presented in XX International Sociological Association World Congress, Melbourne, 2023.
    Published
  2. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Power and personhood: reflections on how an asylum seeker experiences the state in Portugal.". Paper presented in Genealogies and Positionalities of Thinking the State, Leiden, 2019.
  3. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Cape Verdeans in Northern Portugal: Stretching the Boundaries of Anthropological Enquiry". Paper presented in 113th Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, 2014.
    Published
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Collective Taxis". In Encyclopedia of Mobilities. Edward Elgar, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Challinor, Elizabeth; Fortes, Celeste. "Women in Cape Verde". In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.575.
    Published • 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.575
  3. Challlinor, Elizabeth. "Cape Verde". In New Encyclopaedia of Africa. Sage Publications, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412939607.n84.
    Published • 10.4135/9781412939607.n84
Journal article
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Navigating through the Cracks of the State System: Shifting Spaces of Hope in the Portuguese Mobility Regime". Anthropological Quarterly 97 1 (2024):
    Accepted
  2. Octávio Sacramento; Elizabeth Challinor; Pedro G. Silva. "The challenges of education in contexts of increasing migratory diversity: (mis)adjustments, adaptative practices and creativity in Portuguese schools". REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 31 69 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006906.
    10.1590/1980-85852503880006906
  3. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Ojos abiertos (On the stolen babies of Spain)". Etnografica Número esp (2022): 35-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.12661.
    10.4000/etnografica.12661
  4. Challinor, Elizabeth; Octávio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva. Corresponding author: Octávio Sacramento. "Here and elsewhere: multi-cited destinations and refugee place-making in rural and peri-urban Portugal". AGER Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural 31 (2022): 77-102.
    Published
  5. Challinor, Elizabeth. "When does difference matter Border-generating categories in the lives of foreign nationals in northern Portugal". International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 5 4 (2019): 308-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105811.
    Published • 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105811
  6. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal". Migration and Society 1 1 (2018): 96-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2017.010109.
    Published • 10.3167/arms.2017.010109
  7. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118); Martins, F.. "The educational (im)mobilities and status (il)legalities of Cape Verdean youth in Portugal". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44 13 (2018): 2256-2272. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030159022&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1382341
  8. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Cross-border citizenship: mothering beyond the boundaries of consanguinity and nationality". Ethnic and Racial Studies 41 1 (2018): 114-131. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85015056139&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/01419870.2017.1293278
  9. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Exploring the power of the written word: On hospital birth and the production of birth narratives,Explorando o poder da palavra escrita: Parto hospitalar, conversas fiadas e a produção de narrativas de maternidade". Etnografica 22 3 (2018): 669-690. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055196663&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.4000/etnogra?ca.6077
  10. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Caught Between Changing Tides: Gender and Kinship in Cape Verde". Ethnos 82 1 (2017): 113-138. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84929237935&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/00141844.2015.1042489
  11. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "In dialogue with self and the world: Cape Verdean migrant pregnancy in Portugal". Women's Studies International Forum 52 (2015): 63-70. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941316681&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.003
  12. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Cape Verdeans in Northern Portugal: Living with Contingency". Mande Studies 16-17 (2015): 69-92.
    Published
  13. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "The state of the immigrant body and the body of the State: Negotiations at the interface,O estado do corpo imigrante e o corpo do Estado: Negociações na interface". Saude e Sociedade 23 1 (2014): 35-47. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84900524890&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1590/S0104-12902014000100004
  14. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "(Ir)responsible mothers? Cape Verdeans and Portuguese social care". International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 8 1 (2012): 12-21. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84860462164&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1108/17479891211231374
  15. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Mobile communications and belongings: Cape Verdeans in Portugal". Identities 19 3 (2012): 303-319. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84865240162&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/1070289X.2012.699875
  16. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Staying with the tension: "estranged intimacy" and gendered expectations in the field,Conviver com a tensão: "intimidade" alheada e expectativas de género no terreno". Etnografica 16 3 (2012): 569-587. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868550515&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.2125
  17. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Researching ethnicity, identity, subjectivity: Anything but the four-lettered word". Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 9 (2012): 1558-1576. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864022387&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/01419870.2011.593641
  18. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "O Silêncio e as Palavras: Reflexões à Volta da Participação e do Poder na Promoção do Associativismo em Cabo Verde". 18 (2012): 49-68.
    Published
  19. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Medical Citizenship, Culture and Power in Perinatal and Pediatric Immigrant Care". Saude E Sociedade 21 1 (2012): 76-88. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/29d58e3f-e69f-4521-9709-c4c37965d28c.
    Published • 10.1590/S0104-12902012000100009
  20. Challinor, E.P.. "Medical citizenship, culture and power in perinatal and pediatric immigrant care,Cidadania médica, culturas e poder nos cuidados perinatais e pediátricos de imigrantes". Saude e Sociedade 21 1 (2012): 76-88. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861499990&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1590/S0104-12902012000100009
  21. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Identity and belonging: Beyond the material dimensions of social suffering,Identidade e pertença: Para além das dimensões materiais do sofrimento social". Etnografica 15 3 (2011): 479-500. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864100867&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
  22. Challinor, Elizabeth. "Navigating Between Globalizing and Deconstructing the Feminist: What Route for Gender and Development?". Revista Mneme (2010): https://periodicos.ufrn.br/mneme/article/view/232/0.
    Published
  23. Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118). "Home and overseas: The janus faces of cape verdean identity". Diaspora 17 1 (2008): 84-104. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884765155&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1353/dsp.2008.0015
Online resource
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth; Alioglu Cakmak. The need for a spiral like mindset: policy round table discussions of the challenges of accessing citizenship.. 2024. https://hidden-costaction.eu/the-need-for-a-spiral-like-mindset-policy-round-table-discussions-of-the-challenges-of-accessing-citizenship/.
  2. Challinor, Elizabeth; Santinho, Cristina. Corresponding author: Challinor, Elizabeth. Putting Heads Together: Migration and Asylum on the Table in Portugal. 2024. https://hidden-costaction.eu/putting-heads-together-migration-and-asylum-on-the-table-in-portugal/.
  3. Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta. Migrant integration policies an issue for all of us. Politicas de integração de migrantes um assunto para todos nos. 2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/2023/02/23/politicas-de-integracao-de-migrantes-um-assunto-para-todos-nos/.
  4. De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; De Oliveira, Emellin; Lemos, Marta. O acolhimento em Portugal de pessoas deslocadas da Ucrânia (Portuguese reception of displaced people from Ukraine). 2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-n-o-1/.
  5. De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; De Oliveira, Emellin; Lemos, Marta. Corresponding author: De Oliveira, Emellin. NOVA Asylum Policy Lab, Policy Brief no.I: The reception of displaced persons from Ukraine in Portugal. 2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-no-1-english-version/.
    https://doi.org/10.34619/0bi4-csgp
  6. Challinor, Elizabeth. Breakfast at 9pm?. 2019. https://popanth.com/article/breakfast-at-9pm.
  7. Challinor, Elizabeth. Sensory ways of knowing: When research tunes into emotions. 2014. https://popanth.com/article/sensory-ways-of-knowing-when-research-tunes-into-emotions.
  8. Challinor, Elizabeth. The hidden beauty of a toilet brush. 2013. https://popanth.com/article/the-hidden-beauty-of-a-toilet-brush.
  9. Challinor, Elizabeth. Sex changes and changing rooms. 2013. https://popanth.com/article/sex-changes-and-changing-rooms.
  10. Challinor, Elizabeth. We know popcorn goes ‘pop’ but can culture ever go ‘snap’?. 2012. https://popanth.com/article/we-know-popcorn-goes-pop-but-can-culture-ever-go-snap.
Report
  1. De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta; De Oliveira, Emellin. 2023. The Reception of Displaced Persons from Ukraine in Portugal. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-no-1-english-version/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Challlinor, Elizabeth. "Reversals and Contradictions: the Study of Development as Social Practice in Cape Verde". PhD, University of Sussex Department of Anthropology, 2001.
  2. Challlinor, Elizabeth. "Migration and Identity: the Case of Cape Verde". Master, University of Sussex Department of Anthropology, 1995.
  3. Challlinor, Elizabeth. "Managing the Relief/Development Dichotomy: Issues and Options for NGOs with Special Reference to Angola". Master, University of Reading, 1993.
Working paper
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth. 2010. "Maternidade e Identidade em Contexto de Imigração.". https://www.cria.org.pt/en/working-papers.

Artistic / Performance

Short fiction
  1. Challinor, Elizabeth. 2022. "Tapas (On the Stolen Babies of Spain)". In Laboratory for Theatre Writing: Contemporary Political Dramaturgies. LIsboa, Portugal: Project #ECOS Casa da Esquina, Coimbra and CRIA, Lisboa.

Other

Other output
  1. Legalization of an association with migrants and refugees "Terra de Todos" - "Everyone's Land.". Working with the local population of migrants and Portuguese citizens to create an association that will contribute towards the integration of migrants and refugees in the district of Viana do Castelo.. 2020. Challinor, Elizabeth. http://associacaovianadocastelo.simplesite.com.
  2. Creation of Djunta Mãe - a migrant mothers' support group. Monthly meetings and outings advertised on a social network website created for the group, with Cape Verdean migrant mothers for exchange of information, experience and baby clothes and for conviviality as part of the research conducted on mothering, 2008-2010.. 2008. Challinor, Elizabeth.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/28 Bolstering the image of the welcoming state: ethnographic insights into the ambiguous workings of the mobility regime in Portugal
University of Liège (Liège, Belgium)
2023/07/07 Between Charity and Rights: the Lottery of Refugee Reception in Portugal Entre Caridade e Direitos: a Loteria do Acolhimento de Refugiados em Portugal. Artisitic Practices and the Inclusion of Refugees and Migrants in Europe
Nova FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/06/28 Rights on the ground: street level bureaucrats' understandings and practices of refugee protection in Portugal XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Resurgent Authoritariansims: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics and Economics
International Sociological Association (Melbourne, Australia)
2023/06/16 The Power to Decide: the Study of the Role of the Law in Migrant and Refugee Decision Making Research group Circulation and Place-Making meeting -
CRIA Centre for Research in Anthropology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/05/15 Challenges of the Cape Verdean Digital Atlas of Cape Verdean Women in Europe: Laws and Citizenship Citizenship(s) andDiaspora: Practices, Memories and Narratives of Cape Verdean women in the Europe
CRIA Centre for Research in Anthropology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/04/18 Productive Ambiguities: an Analysis of the Portuguese Asylum System Meetings on Migratory Experiences
CRIA Centre for Research in Anthropology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/21 Legal consciousness and societal hope in asylum and forced migration Asilo em Portugal: Encontro de Investigadores: Asylum in Portugal: Researchers' Meeting
Aslyum Policy Lab FCSH/UNL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/09/06 Criativity at the service of a political cause: ethnographic poetry on the stolen babies of Spain. A criatividade ao serviço de uma causa politica: poesia etnográfica sobre os bebés roubados de Espanha. 8th Congress of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA)
APA University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2022/06/30 Decisions you cannot undo: when refugees in Portugal get trapped in the asylum system they did not choose and do not want MIGRATION AND INEQUALITIES. In search of answers and solutions. 20th IMISCOE annual conference.
IMISCOE (Oslo, Norway)
2021/07/09 She didnt even take the slippers. I didnt take offence. Reactions to refugee secondary movement from Portugal examined from an anthro-philosophical perspective Lisbon Conference on Philosophy of Migration and Asylum
IFL-UNL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/06/20 Navigating the illegible state: ethnographic insights into the workings of the mobility regime in Portugal 15th Online Congress Breaking the rules? Power, Participation, and Transgression
SIEF (Helsinki , Finland)
2020/07/22 The automated state, runaway and defiant refugees and an overburdened third sector: troubled connections in Portuguese service delivery EASA New Anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe
ISCTE and ICS Lisbon (Lisbon (online), Portugal)
2019/10/31 Power and personhood: reflections on how an asylum seeker experiences the state in Portugal.¿ EASA Anthropologies of the State network meeting
Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands)
2019/10/02 The Tolerance of Intolerance? Rural 3.0 Service Learning for the Rural Development
Escola Superior de Eduação Viana do Castelo (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2018/11/14 As Fronteiras da Tolerância International Day for Tolerance.
Local Council Viana do Castelo (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2018/10/27 Borders and Migration Migration, Refugees and Humanity Kartepe Summit
Local Council of Kocaeli (Kocaeli, Turkey)
2018/09/28 Good Theatre? Caught Between the Emotions, Theatricalisation and Politics of Forced Mobility Erratic Bodies, Transitional Borders, and Recent Migration in Europe: Representation and Identity Negotiations in Public Discourse, Literature, and the Arts
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
2018/09/10 The Devil is in the Detail: Negotiating Migrant and Refugee Policy at the Local Level. "Law and Citizenship Beyond The States
RCSL-SDJ (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/05/08 Entre a categoria e a pessoa: vivências de separação e de integração de refugiados e migrantes no norte de Portugal Borders and Inequalities: Passages, Waiting, Detentions (Fronteiras e Desigualdades: Passagens, Esperas, Retenções
CRIA-UM JusGov
2017/11/24 Charity or Rights in Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal? On the fringes: the politics and policies of refugee reception in Europe
CETRAD-UTAD, Universidade de Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro
2017 ‘Stories of chalk and cheese by migrants and refugees: can the ‘poem’ be made to rhyme?’ Bodies in transition - power knowledge and medical anthropology
EASA Biennial Conference Network Meeting ICS (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/07 “The Contested Moralities of Cape Verdean Care”. EASA Congress
Department of Human Science for Education “Riccardo Massa” and Department of Sociology and Social Research at The University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
2015/09 ‘She told me off as if I were her child’. Maternal Ambiguities in the State Provision of Care of Cape Verdean Women in Portugal”. Anthropology and global health: interrogating theory, policy and practice”, EASA Medical Anthropology Network and the RAI Medical Anthropology Committee
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2015 “Navigating Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Young Cape Verdean Migrants in Portugal”. 22nd International Conference of Europeanists
Sciences Po (Paris, France)
2015 The matryoshka dolls of Cape Verdean (im)mobility: towards an inter-sited ethnography” ASA, Symbiotic anthropologies: theoretical commensalities and methodological mutualisms
University of Exeter (Exeter, United Kingdom)
2014/02/28 Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal: Reflections upon the “Other” II International Workshop Health and Citizenship: Equity in maternal-child healthcare in times of crisis
ISCTE-IUL
2014 Inflated expectations: Cape Verdean Students Pursuing Vocational Training in Northern Portugal Network Start-up Workshop: Mobilities in Times of Economic Crisis
IGOT (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/10/26 “Cape Verdean Mothering: Practices, Meanings and Moralities”. Motherhood in Post-1968 European Women’s Writing: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/05/15 - Current As tecnologias digitais móveis e migração forçada: o impacto do uso do smartphone no quotidiano de um grupo de refugiados em Portugal
Supervisor
Programa doutoral em Antropologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - 2019 The Adaptive Process of Refugees in Portugal: the Adaptive Process and the Role of Institutions. O Processo Adaptivo dos Refugiados em Portugal: O Processo Adaptivo e o Papel das Instituições
Co-supervisor
Crime Diferença e Desigualdade (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011 - 2015 Comparative study of birth in Portugal and England Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Supervisor
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/11/03 - Current EASA network Anthrostate talks: the State in the Crossfire. Co-organisation of monthly debates on the anthropology of the state. (2022/11/03)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
2023/12/15 - 2023/12/15 Debate International Migrants' Day (2023/12/15 - 2023/12/15)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Nova Asylum Policy Lab, Portugal
2023/10/23 - 2023/10/23 Dicas para a escrita académica: pessoal, transmissível e aberto ao debate (2023/10/23 - 2023/10/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2023/05/18 - 2023/05/18 "Assessing New Forms of Self-Narration: engaging as ethical witnesses with young women's testimonial narratives." Invited speaker via COST action: Ana Belén, University of Navarra. (2023/05/18 - 2023/05/18)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2023/05/17 - 2023/05/17 Informal meeting of Portuguese and Spanish members of the COST action HIDDEN (History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration) to exchange information about research (2023/05/17 - 2023/05/17)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2016/06/23 - 2016/06/23 Workshop Tips and Tricks for Academic Writing. The Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Network, ICS, Lisbon 23 June 2016. (2016/06/23 - 2016/06/23)
Seminar (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016/02/13 - 2016/02/13 Discussion of the research strategies of the research group Governance, Policies Livelihoods (2016/02/13)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2015/03/15 - 2015/03/15 Seminar for the CRIA research group Governance, Policies, Livelihoods “Let’s Talk about the Elephant in the Room: Research Methodologies”, CRIA/ISCTE, University Institute, Lisbon, 7 March 2015. (2015/03/15 - 2015/03/15) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2014/10/11 - 2014/10/11 Presesntation of projects in search of research synergies between members of the research group Governance Policies Livelihoods (2014/10/11)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2014/06/04 - 2014/06/04 Academic writing workshop with Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2014/06/04)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2012/05/23 - 2012/05/23 Migration, Mobility and Global Health (2012/05/23)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
2011/02/18 - 2011/02/19 International conference “Mothering and Motherhood in the 21 Century: Research and Activism." (2011/02/18 - 2011/02/18)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/12/07 - 2023/12/07 Discussant for seminar on the Role of Desire in Risky Migration. A Case Study of Syrian Refugees' Secondary Movement to Europe. Leja Sunagic, Lund University.
Seminar
Meetings on Migratory Experiences
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2023/06/26 - 2023/07/14 Participation in the NOVA Impact Challenge with the NOVA Asylum Policy Lab promoting the idea of intercultural social responsibility as a form of doing business with social awareness.
Other
The NOVA Impact Challenges: Improving Society Today and Beyond
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/06/21 - 2023/06/22 Participation in working groups of launching conference of the COST action HIDDEN - History of Identity Documentation in European Nations.
Conference
Maynooth University, Ireland
2023/03/01 - 2023/03/01 A public consultation on the contents of the launching of the JRS White Book on Immigrant and Refugee Rights in Portugal.
Meeting
Launching of the White Book on immigrant and refugee rights in Portugal
Jesuit Refugee Service, Portugal
2023/02/24 - 2023/02/24 Participation in webinar meeting organized by the City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE) from the Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) Oxford University to exchange on the experiences and ongoing challenges of different cities in Europe on developing municipal ID cards for irregular migrants.
Meeting
Webinar Municipal ID Cards
Centre on Migration Policy and Society, United Kingdom
2022/11/02 - 2022/11/02 Launching of the regional project Talents Dislocated in Europe. In Portugal, the project partners are the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the High Commission for Migration (ACM), Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) and Fragomen. These partners aim to lay the foundations for the implementation of complementary admission routes that will allow people who lack international protection, together with their families, to integrate themselves in a sustainable way into the labour market.
Meeting
Launching of the regional project Talents Dislocated to Europe
International Organization for Migration, Switzerland

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/05/26 The Chinese Diaspora in the Iberian Peninsula: Identities, Families and Transformations. La diáspora china en la Península Ibérica: Identidades, familias y transformaciones
President of the jury
Ying Yangmin (PhD)
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
2022/06/03 Expanding Interculturality: artistic education in the promotion of citizenship. Ampliar a Interculturalidade : a educação artística na promoção da cidadania
(Thesis) Main arguer
Silvia Barbosa (Master)
Escola Superior de Educação de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2021/06/01 And what does it take to volunteer? Volunteering as a governance model in crisis contexts. Portugal 2012-2018. E o que é que é preciso para ser voluntário? Voluntariado como modelo de governança em contextos de crise. Portugal 2012-2018
(Thesis) Arguer
Fernanda Rivas Oliveira (PhD)
Instituto para o Desenvolvimento da Gestão Empresarial do ISCTE, Portugal
2019/09/12 Ceramics from the Island of São Vicente: The Figurative Art of Jorge Soares. A cerâmica da Ilha de São Vicente: O figurado de Jorge Soares.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Valdemiro de Brito Robalo (Master)
Escola Superior de Educação de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2019/03/07 The (male) owners of the land. The (female) owners of the land. Or... no man's land. Agrarian Issues and Development in Santiago, Cape Verde. Os donos da terra as donas da terra. Ou...as terras de ninguém. Questões agrárias e Desenvolvimento em Santiago, Cabo Verde.
(Thesis) Arguer
Carla Santos de Carvalho (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Investigação em Ciências Sociais e Gestão, Portugal
2018 On the margins and in transit: mental health and good intentions in a civil societ organisation on the outskirts of Lisbon. "Nas margens e em trânsito: a saúde mental e as boas intenções numa IPSS nos arredores de Lisboa."
(Thesis) Arguer
Maria Joana de Carvalho Catela Teixeira (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015 Missionaries of the South: evangelization, globalization and mobilities of Cape Verdean pastors of the Church of the Nazarene. Missionários do Sul: evangelização, globalização e mobilidades dos pastores cabo-verdianos da Igreja do Nazareno
(Thesis) Arguer
Max Ruben Tavares de Pina Ramos (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015 Institutionalized people with intellectual and developmental difficulties and citizenship. Pessoas institucionalizadas com dificuldades intelectuais e desenvolvimentais e cidadania João Manuel Alves Seixas (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Educaçao, Portugal
2014 Europe is Cacém. Mobilities, gender and sexuality in the displacements of young Brazilians to Portugal. A Europa é o Cacém. Mobilidades, género e sexualidade nos deslocamentos de jovens brasileiros para Portuga Paula Christofoletti Togni (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2013 The Worlds Around. Imagination, Identities and Life Paths of Urban Youth in Cape Verde. Os Mundos em Volta. Imaginação, Identidades e Percursos de Vida da Juventude Urbana de Cabo Verde
(Thesis) Main arguer
Filipe Daniel Santos Silva Martins (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2013 In Search of Health: The Cult of the Lady of Health in an Anthropological Perspective. Em Busca da Saúde: O Culto da Senhora da Saúde numa Perspetiva Antropológica
(Thesis) Arguer
António Pedro Queirós Pereira (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2012 Characterization of parental expectations regarding children's respiratory therapy
(Thesis) Main arguer
Maria da Graça Lucena (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2017 - 2021 Co-editor of Etnográfica Books
Other
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2015 - 2020 Co-coordinator in the creation of the CRIA research group Governance, Policies, Livelihoods which led to the successful bid for FCT strategic project funding 2015-20.
Coordinator

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2017/07/05 - 2017/07/07 EASA Biennial Conference Network Meeting Bodies in transition - power knowledge and medical anthropology ICS and APA

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
1998 - 1998 Consultant in a multi-disciplinary team for a "Scoping Assessment of the Potential for Enhancing the Fishery of Lake Tefé " in Manaus, Brazil. University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2010/10 - Current Health and Migration Post-graduate course in the Anthropology of Health and Cultural Competence (Pós-Graduação) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/05/29 - 2023/05/30 In service-training: Anthropological contributions to the development of cultural skills in migration contexts. Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, Viana do Castelo (10 hours) Anthropology
2022/11/16 - 2022/11/16 Research Methods in Anthropology "Notes on participatory observation: a look at the estranged intimacies created in the field." Mestrado em Antropologia ISCTE (Mestrado) Instituto para o Desenvolvimento da Gestão Empresarial do ISCTE, Portugal
2022/10/28 - 2022/11/04 In service-training: Anthropological contributions to the development of cultural skills in migration contexts. Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, Viana do Castelo (10 hours) (Outros) Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2022/01/24 - 2022/01/26 In service-training: Anthropological contributions to the development of cultural skills in migration contexts. Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, Viana do Castelo (10 hours) (Outros) Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2021/11/15 - 2021/11/17 In service-training: Anthropological contributions to the development of cultural skills in migration contexts. Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, Viana do Castelo (10 hours) (Outros)
2021/10/18 - 2021/10/20 In service-training: Anthropological contributions to the development of cultural skills in migration contexts. Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, Viana do Castelo (10 hours) (Outros) Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2021/02/11 - 2021/02/11 The Challenges of Culture, Citizenship and Human Rights: Seminar, Legal status, migration and asylum. Curso institucional em competêncais transversais (Licenciatura) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/01/05 - 2020/02/15 In service-training: Anthropological contributions to the development of cultural skills in migration contexts. Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, Viana do Castelo (20 hours) Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2018/11/08 - 2018/11/08 PhD Seminar Social Sciences Research Methods. Mobilities and Plasticities in the Law: the case of Cape Verdean Students and Refugees in Northern Portugal. (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/10/20 - 2016/10/20 Seminar in MA Contemporary Migrations: Migrant Mothering and Citizenship ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/01/07 - 2015/01/07 Seminar Maternity and Mothering: Practices, Meanings and Moralities in the Case of Cape Verde Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2015/01/06 - 2015/01/06 Seminar “Culture, Knowledge and Power in Health Contexts. Cape Verdean Mothers in Northern Portugal” Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2014/11/12 - 2014/11/12 Research Methods Undergraduate Seminar. Notes on Participant Observation, Estranged Intimiacies in the Field. (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014/02/25 - 2014/02/25 Seminar in MA Contemporary Migrations Cape Verdean mothers and the inner dialogue ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/01/19 - 2013/01/19 Reflections on Participant Observation: the Creation of Estranged Intimacies in the Field Sociologia (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2012/11/22 - 2012/11/22 Seminar in MA Contemporary Migrations. Migration, the Body and Identity: the Case of Cape Verde (Mestrado) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2010/11/17 - 2010/11/17 Seminar in MA Contemporary Migrations: the case of Cape Verde ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2002/11/01 - 2002/11/30 Teaching (24 hours) in the Cooperation and Development module of the adult education course on Cooperation and Education of the School for Higher Education in Viana do Castelo . (Outros) Escola Superior de Educação de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2002/03/01 - 2002/03/31 Teaching (22 hours) in the Cooperation and Development module of the adult education course on Cooperation and Education of the School for Higher Education in Viana do Castelo . (Outros) Escola Superior de Educação de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2001/04/01 - 2001/05/01 Production of materials and teaching (22 hours) in the Cooperation and Development module for the first adult education course on Cooperation and Education of the School for Higher Education in Viana do Castelo . (Outros) Escola Superior de Educação de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2015 - 2021 Etnografica (2182-2891) OpenEdition

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/11/01 - Current Friction and power in the workplace of cultural organizations Elisabete Fragoso