The Expert (PhD) is Full Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Bologna. Member of the Italian Ethnological Mission in Equatorial Africa, since 2001 he has carried out a field research on youth and war, childhood crisis, informal economies and the frontier in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo). He is currently carrying on a research on Eritrean refugees in Kampala and on the conflict between central government and traditional kingdoms in Kasese district.
Child soldiers, Coercive population control, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Ex-combatant reintegration, Forced conscription, Land tenure disputes, Political persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Tribal discrimination or persecution, Violence against children/child abuse
From 2015 up to now, I produced around 10 reports to support asylum seekers who were appealing at an italian court. They came from Congo DRC, Togo and Ivory Coast. Their claims were based on poltical persecution, witchcraft and family abuse.
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