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Erica is a PhD student in Psychology (area of specialization: Community Psychology) at the Department of APPsyCI of ISPA-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Her PhD project uses qualitative and participatory methodologies to investigate, from a critical community psychology perspective, the lived experiences of people seeking sanctuary in Lisbon and the role of civil society organizations in asylum and migration governance. She is also engage in solidarity with people in refugee and migrant at ¿Fórum Refúgio Portugal¿ (a refugee Community Based Organization) along other Civil Society Organizatons. She is part of a Global Research Network on Migrants in Big Cities (the MBC Network). A network of researchers, covering different geographical areas engaged to migrants' and refugees' health. Since september is involved in a research collaboration with the CUNY Graduate Center, University of New York. Her main research interests are directed towards de-bordering solidarity, migrant justice. Her methodologies interests include alternative knowledge production, community-based participatory research, critical and feminist approaches, and analytical tools.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Erica Briozzo

Citation names

  • Briozzo, Erica

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B311-597B-BE28
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5787-0654

Email addresses

  • erica_briozzo@ispa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2)
English Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020 - 2025/04
Ongoing
Psychology, Especialização em Community Psychology (Doutoramento)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida Centro de Investigação em Psicologia Aplicada Capacidades e Inclusão, Portugal
2014/09/10 - 2017/04/03
Concluded
Psicologia clinica e promozione della salute: persona, relazioni familiari e di comunità (Laurea Magistrale)
Major in Psicologia Clinica
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
"L'Esperienza Degli Immigrati Irregolari In Un Centro Di Identificazione Ed Espulsione (CIE): Uno Studio Qualitativo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
104/110
2014/05/03
Concluded
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche (Bachelor)
Major in Psicologia
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
"ZINGARI E GAGE RELAZIONI INTERGRUPPI: RAPPRESENTAZIONE SOCIALE, PREGIUDIZI . POSSIBILI CAUSE DI UNA DIFFICILE INTEGRAZIONE." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
96/110
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) APPsyCI: Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities & Inclusion, Portugal, Portugal
ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/02/24 - 2023/07/07 Introduction to Community Psychology under the supervision of Professor José Ornelas 11 classes were taught in UC I on the following topics: Socio-historical Framework of Community Psychology/ Deinsti Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida Centro de Investigação em Psicologia Aplicada Capacidades e Inclusão, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2020/09/27 Psychologist: Community Mental Health; Psycho-social support to individuals living in community residences for people with experience of mental illness. Associação para o Estudo e Integração Psicossocial, Portugal
Gestual: Grupo de Estudos Socio-Territoriais, Urbanos e de Ação Local, Portugal
2018/05/22 - 2018/12/20 Collaborator in Action-research activities based on the use of photovoice and interviews; intervention in crisis’ situation; participation in team meeting to find resettlement solutions Faculdade de Arquitetura - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/04/15 - 2018/04/15 1st and 2nd level professional Internship Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida , Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2016/11/01 Student: Thesis Scholarship thesis: "L’ESPERIENZA DEGLI IMMIGRATI IRREGOLARI IN UN CENTRO DI IDENTIFICAZIONE ED ESPULSIONE (CIE): UNO STUDIO QUALITATIVO" Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2016/06/01 Erasmus program: 13 Curricular units achieved Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
2014/03/16 - 2015/10/08 Volunteer: social inclusion of people with experiences of menthal diseases; participation in various activities (dance, city walk, painting, gym); spent two-week holiday in the city of Santa Catarina AIUTIAMOLI Onlus , Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/01/01 The Refugees' Integration In Portugal: An Exploratory Study
2020.08419.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida Centro de Investigação em Psicologia Aplicada Capacidades e Inclusão, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Briozzo, Erica; MariaJoão Vargas Moniz; José Henrique Pinheiro Ornelas. "Capabilities Approach: Prevention of Structural Violence and Promotion of a Dignified and Safe Life for Refugee Women in Portugal". Ljubljana, 2022.
  2. Briozzo, Erica; MariaJoão Vargas Moniz; José Henrique Pinheiro Ornelas. "Reflections on the draft of the collective article written by José Ornelas and Maria João Vargas- Moniz. Summer School Coimbra". Paper presented in Summer School Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race, Coimbra, 2022.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Erica Briozzo; Maria Vargas-Moniz; José Ornelas. "Critical Insights on Social Connections in the Context of Resettlement for Refugees and Asylum Seekers". Journal of International Migration and Integration (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01149-6.
    10.1007/s12134-024-01149-6
  2. Francesca Esposito; Salvo Di Martino; Briozzo, Erica; José Henrique Pinheiro Ornelas. "Women’s Experiences of Immigration Detention in Italy: Examining Immigration Procedural Fairness, Human Dignity, and Health.". Frontiers 12 13 (2022): 1-11.
    Open access
  3. franscesca Esposito; José Henrique Pinheiro Ornelas; Erica Briozzo; Di Napoli Imma; Caterina Arcidiacono. ""Measuring quality of life in detention: A process of transcultural adaptation through a collaborative approach"forthcoming". Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community (2021):
    Accepted
  4. Briozzo, Erica; José Henrique Pinheiro Ornelas; MariaJoão Vargas Moniz. "The asylum system and the covid-19 pandemic in the city of lisbon: existing disparities, structural problems and new insights". (2021):
  5. Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Briozzo, Erica; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Ecology of Sites of Confinement: Everyday Life in a Detention Center for Illegalized Non-citizens"". American Journal of Community Psychology 63 1-2 (2019): 190-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12313.
    Open access • 10.1002/ajcp.12313
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07/21 Solidarities and Allyship with the People on the Move: Critical Reflections by an Academic Research Group Focused on Migrant Justice Society For Community Research an Action (SCRA) Biennal Conference
(Atlanta, United States)
2023/04/19 Uma compreensão crítica das conexões sociais no contexto da Reinstalação: uma scoping review " A critical understanding of social connections in the context of Resettlement: a scoping review " Open day
Ispa-Instituto Universitário (Lisbon )
2022/11/29 The Covid-19 pandemic, what lessons? The case of Lisbon Webinar, migrant health in big cities: Can past health crises inform the future?
Global Society on Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Health (GSMERH), Center for Immigrant, Refugee, and Global Health (CIRGH) at the City University of New York, Graduate School of Public Health, European Public Health Association (EUPHA) Section on Migrant
2022/10/20 An understanding of refuge experiences in Lisbon's urban area through the Capability approach
CNAIM (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/09/21 A focus on gender: Understanding refugees and asylum seekers women lived experiences in lisbon through the capability approach
Universitá Federico II (Naples , Italy)
2022/07/22 Being a black woman asylum seeker in Portugal
Centro de Estudos Sociais - CES (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/07/05 Capabilities Approach: Prevention of Structural Violence and Promotion of a Dignified and Safe Life for Refugee Women in Portugal 17th European Congress of Psychology
(Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2022/06/20 Como realizar investigação com pessoas em situações de refúgio: Investigação e ação participativa com base na comunidade "How to conduct research with people in refugee situations: Community-based participatory research and action" XI Simpósio Nacional em Psicologia
Universidade de atras do monte (Vila Real )
2022/06/20 Round table: Comments and observations from researchers and professionals from social organizations and host institutions Dia Dos Refugiados
Forúm Refugio (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/03/06 Mesa Redonda: A abordagem das Capacidades: acolhimento e integração de refugiados e requerentes de asilo emPortugal. " Round table: The Capabilities approach: Reception and integration of refugees and asylum seekers in Portugal". Dia Aberto
APPsyCi, ISPA-IU (LIsbn, Portugal)
2021/10/03 A integração dos refugiados em Portugal: Um estudo exploratório " The integration of refugees in Portugal: An exploratory study "
2021/09/08 Uno sguardo ecologico alla detenzione amministrativa in italia: l¿impatto della digintá umana e della giustizia procedurale per il benessere delle persone detenute "An ecological glance at administrative detention in italy: the impact of human digintá and procedural justice on the well-being of detained persons" XIII CONVEGNO NAZIONALE SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI PSICOLOGIA di COMUNITÀ – SIPCO Oltre le distanze, Le comunità tra separazione e solidarietà
Scuola di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze Firenze, (Firenze, Italy)
2019/06/29 A experiência de migrantes detidos num Centro de Identificação e Expulsão (Cie) na Itália: um estudo qualitativo. "The experience of migrants detained in an Identification and Expulsion Center (CIE) in Italy: a qualitative study." X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
Universidade de Madeira (Madeira , Portugal)
2018/12/05 Vozes do Direito à Cidade. Fotografia participativa com as crianças do Bairro da Torre e do Alto da Cova da Moura. Séminario direito á cidade
Faculdade de Arquitetura Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/02/02 Life and Resistance in a Detention Unit In Portugal. Poster session Ornelas, J., Briozzo, E., & Arcidiacono, C. (2017, November) II Colóquio Internacional Raça, Identidade e Mundialização
Instituto Universitario (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2020/12/22 - 2020/12/22 I Assembleia Geral do Fórum Refúgio Portugal com o tema geral: “O futuro do acolhimento em Portugal” - Passos complementares para um programa bem sucedido. (2020/12/22)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
FÓRUM REFÚGIO PORTUGAL, Portugal
2020/12/07 - 2020/12/07 Webinar Lisbon must act: This webinar aims to reflect on alternatives that can improve the reception and integration of migrants and refugees, focusing on human rights and the direct participation of civil society. With these debates, we hope to find sustainable solutions applicable to the Portuguese context. We want to know if, in addition to the will to welcome, we have the resources and space to put these ideas into practice, optimizing the existing structure that is already part of our cities. (2020/12/07 - 2020/12/07)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
Lisbon Must Act, Portugal
2018/12/05 - 2018/12/08 Participação na organização do seminário: "direito á CIdade": O seminário inclui palestras, mesas redondas com teóricos, especialistas e ativistas, em torno de cinco grandes temas, tendo o espaço da lusotopia como território de estudo: a noção de Direito à cidade; a Nova Geração de Políticas de Habitação em Portugal e o direito à habitação e à cidade; as práticas contra-hegemónicas emergentes de produção coletiva de outro espaço, através de contra-planos e contra-projetos; as intervenções inclusivas e/ou subversivas no espaço público. (2018/12/05 - 2018/12/08)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Faculdade de Arquitetura - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/02/05 - Current Manus Prison theory is a coherent intellectual, creative and political project inspired by four years of ongoing research and organising between Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian in what we refer to as a shared philosophical activity.
Conference
Introducing Manus Prison Theory: Knowing Border Violence
Border Criminologies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020/06/11 - Current Forúm Refúgio Portugal membro

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/10/17 - 2021/12/14 Critical introduction to concepts and definitions (Dra. Francesca Esposito – class 3); Conceptual models to analyse the complexity of migration and the experiences of migrant people (Dr. Francesca Esposito - classes 4 and 5); A situação das comunidades migrantes em Portugal e os desafios enfrentados no processo de integração na comunidade: modelos de interveção (Dra. Francesca Esposito – aula 6, 7, 8, 9 e 10); Modelos de investigação comunitária na área das migrações e reflexões conclusivas (Dra. Francesca Esposito – aula 11 e 12) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida (ISPA), Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/03/09 - Current Desenvolvimento de Competências de Investigação - DCI "Development of Research Skills" Pedro Mateus Pimenta de Castro and Sofia Anibal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2016 UCSC EXCHANGE (ERASMUS / Overseas)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
2016 INTERNATIONAL THESIS SCHOLARSHIP
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy