GIUSEPPE PROCIDA

Graduated in cultural anthropology from Bologna, I have lived the last ten years of my life constantly traveling around Europe, studying in foreign universities (France, Sciences Po Reims, and Spain, UAB) and Italian universities, while holding parallel seasonal jobs of various kinds to finance my travels. Inspired by a strong passion for the topic of migration, I have volunteered for several years in refugee camps and border areas across Europe, with NGOs and international solidarity collectives. Throughout this long journey, I have been able to delve into the dynamics of life and organization of various civil society political groups engaged in defending human rights on multiple levels, institutionally and beyond. As a result, I have developed a wide range of organizational, logistical, practical and theoretical skills needed on the individual level as well as in a variety of socio-political contexts. These multi-year and heterogeneous experiences have logically led me to learn several languages, including English, French and Spanish at the highest levels, used both in theoretical academic studies as well as in highly multicultural working contexts. I returned to Palermo to pursue a master's degree in law and expand my academic education on the topic of migration and human rights. The subject of my recent bachelor's thesis in anthropology verges on a field study of the phenomenon of "caporalato" (gangmaster system) in the agricultural ghetto of Campobello di Mazara, (countryside of Trapani) during the olive harvesting season, and on the role of foreign, mainly undocumented, migrant labor in the Southern Italian agribusiness food chain. This work features a historical and an anthropological perspective on the issues of labor exploitation and Italian migration policies over the last fifty years; in addition to that, it is strengthened by an ethnographic collection of interviews of several key actors locally involved in the afore-mentioned territory.

During my travels, I also had the opportunity to teach Italian and English to foreigners on behalf of European NGOs, and I am currently volunteering as a tutor for an after-school program aimed at students (mainly of migrant origin) from middle and high schools at ADRA Onlus Italy.

Thanks to this rich background, I can assert I possess a strong cultural and practical preparation necessary to organize individual and group activities of any sort. In light of all these experiences, I feel confident to say that my main field of expertise and interest is migration, both through a multidisciplinary research-approach in the social sciences and thanks to the long years of personal experience acquired in first person, on the ground.

• University of Bologna CLA (University Language Center) Certificate of ENGLISH C1, 2019.
• University of Bologna CLA (University Language Center) Certificate of SPANISH B1, 2019.
• TOEFL TEST, score 100, 2015.

• Adra Italia Onlus
• Università degli Studi di Palermo