Francesca Morra
Biographic Data
| ID | 658990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Morra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Morra |
| SIGNATURE | MORRA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | HES-SO Valais-Wallis |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6493-6818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Student vigilance and mobility
A university education offers a chance for upward mobility to many international students. This “moving up” is often encouraged by family networks both for economic and social reasons. International students are encouraged to look for high-ranking universities worldwide to seek improved socio-economic positionings. Once students get to their destination country, however, they may experience feelings of isolation. This paper examines how internati…
The poison in the cake
In this essay, the two co-authors engage in a conversation about violence, an object escaping and defying language. Francesca is an anthropologist employing notes of psychotherapy sessions as ethnographic material; Arinas is a writer gradually gathering narrative fragments to find the truth in her family history. The essay begins with the circumstances of their encounter and follows their narrative process, intertwining pieces of ethnography, jou…
‘I was a refugee, at first’. Aspettative, desideri, fallimenti e ricostruzioni nell’esperienza degli studenti rifugiati a Torino
In the last years, Italian universities have implemented several programmes supporting refugees who want to start university, or return to studies after forced migration. Drawing on the projects developed at the University of Torino, this paper analyses students’ different trajectories, across the difficulties posed by a different academic environment, the imagined possibilities, the obstacles to self-realisation. The paper looks at the interplay…
Towards an Ethnography of Crisis
This article analyses the challenges posed by carrying out ethnography with migrants experiencing mental distress and living in conditions of multiple marginality (social and existential). Drawing on the notion of crisis, I consider the experience of disorder as an ethnographic object reflecting the intersection between the individual and the collective. This article examines how ethnographic practice can be applied to, and is altered by, the stu…
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Towards an Ethnography of Crisis
This article analyses the challenges posed by carrying out ethnography with migrants experiencing mental distress and living in conditions of multiple marginality (social and existential). Drawing on the notion of crisis, I consider the experience of disorder as an ethnographic object reflecting the intersection between the individual and the collective. This article examines how ethnographic practice can be applied to, and is altered by, the stu…
‘I was a refugee, at first’. Aspettative, desideri, fallimenti e ricostruzioni nell’esperienza degli studenti rifugiati a Torino
In the last years, Italian universities have implemented several programmes supporting refugees who want to start university, or return to studies after forced migration. Drawing on the projects developed at the University of Torino, this paper analyses students’ different trajectories, across the difficulties posed by a different academic environment, the imagined possibilities, the obstacles to self-realisation. The paper looks at the interplay…
Student vigilance and mobility
A university education offers a chance for upward mobility to many international students. This “moving up” is often encouraged by family networks both for economic and social reasons. International students are encouraged to look for high-ranking universities worldwide to seek improved socio-economic positionings. Once students get to their destination country, however, they may experience feelings of isolation. This paper examines how internati…
The poison in the cake
In this essay, the two co-authors engage in a conversation about violence, an object escaping and defying language. Francesca is an anthropologist employing notes of psychotherapy sessions as ethnographic material; Arinas is a writer gradually gathering narrative fragments to find the truth in her family history. The essay begins with the circumstances of their encounter and follows their narrative process, intertwining pieces of ethnography, jou…
Ethnography (3 works) · Existentialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Alertness (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work)