Sónia Ferreira

Sónia Ferreira holds a doctorate in Cultural and Social Anthropology
(2009) from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade
Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), where she is Assistant professor in the
Anthropology department.
She is a research fellow at CRIA (Center for
Research in Anthropology) where she develops the project ‘(Re) Counting
the empire: post-colonial narratives and media production in the
Portuguese and Cape Verdean diaspora’ (DL 57/2016 / CP1349 / CT0007)
(2018) and she coordinates the European project 'Ecos. Exiles, to
counter silence: memories, objects and narratives from uncertain times'
https://ecosexilios-cria.org (2019), funding Europe for Citizens.

Since 2020 she has been the co-coordinator of WG4 ‘Family, kinship and
community networks’ of COST Action ‘Women on the Move’ (CA19112).
Since 2018 she has been co-coordinator of the Research Group ‘Circulation and
Production of Places’ (CRIA) and since 2014 the ‘Groupe de travail
Migrations dans les mondes lusophones: identités, altérités et
circulations’ (URMIS https://www.urmis.fr- Université de Paris).
She is also a research fellow at the Emigration Observatory
http://observatorioemigracao.pt/np4/1362 (Portugal) and member of the
executive board of ABRE http://abre.eu/ - Association of Brasilianists
in Europe.