Gianluca Gatta
Gianluca Gatta is principal investigator (Archive of migrant memories research unit) for the Horizon 2020 project ITHACA. Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region (G.A. 101004539). He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” From 2018 to 2021 he worked as Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies of Kobe University (Japan). Has also taught and researched at the Universities of Naples “L’Orientale,” Calabria, and Naples “Federico II” and carried out fieldwork in Lampedusa, Rome, Naples and Kobe (Japan). He is also co-founder of the Archive of migrant memories (AMM) in Rome. His research interests are: body, power and production of illegality; third places and sociability; migrant voice, memory and subjectivity. Among his recent publications are: “Self-narration, Participatory Video and Migrant Memories: A (Re)making of the Italian Borders” (2019); “‘Half devil and half child’: an ethnographic perspective on the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa” (2018).
