CV
Mara
Clemente
is
a
sociologist
with
teaching
and
research
interests
focused
on
migration
and
gender
issues
and
qualitative
research
methods.
Her
fields
of
expertise
cover
human
trafficking,
refugees,
sex
work
and
sex
tourism.
Mara
is
currently
working
on
a
research
project
entitled
“The
Construction
of
Counter-Trafficking
Regimes
in
Mediterranean
Europe: Actors,
Discourses
and
Representations”,
whose
main
objective
is
to analyse
anti-trafficking
systems
in
Southern
Europe
(2018-2024). Through
funding
provided
by
the
Portuguese
Foundation
for
Science
and
Technology
(FCT),
she
previously
carried
out
a
study
on
policies
and
practices
of
protection
of
trafficked
women
in
Portugal
(2014-2018).
Mara
holds
a
PhD
in
Theory
and
Social
Research
from
the
Sapienza
University
of
Rome
with
a
research
on
minors
prostitution
and
sex
tourism
in
the
Dominican
Republic
(2010).
After
her
PhD
she
worked
as
a
researcher
in
academic
research
projects
and
action-research
projects
for
different
organisations
in
Europe
and
South
America
focusing
on
subjects
such
as
integration
of
...
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Educational Qualifications
Licenciate in Scienze della Comunicazione I Communication Sciences I Ciências da Comunicação, Sapienza, Università di Roma, in 2005
PhD in Teoria e Ricerca sociale I Theory and Social Research I Teoria e Investigação social, Sapienza, Università di Roma, in 2010
Research Fields
Migration Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, Qualitative research. Human trafficking, Sex work, Prostitution of minors, Sex tourism, Refugees.
Research Groups
Inequalities, Migrations and Territories
Projects
Recent Publications
Scientific journal paper
Clemente, M. (2019). O tráfico sexual (já) não é sexy? Atores, definições do problema e políticas no campo português de combate ao tráfico. Gazeta de Antropología. 35 (1)
Clemente, M. (2018). Silêncios ensurdecedores: a investigação sobre o tráfico de seres humanos . Comunicação e Sociedade. 6, 10-32
Book chapter
Clemente, M. (2021). ‘I was not prepared to go to Spain’. Work mobility of young people at the margins in Portugal. In David Cairns (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cairns, D. & Clemente, M. (2021). Introduction: The intermittency of youth migration. In David Cairns (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration. (pp. 1-16). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Clemente, M. (2019). Anti-trafficking discourses, Migration control and Representations of trafficked women. The Portuguese case. In Małgorzata Pamuła-Behrens e Agnieszka Hennel-Brzozowska (Ed.), Migration and Education. To Understand Relations between Migration and Education – Challenges for Research and Practice. Kraków: impuls.
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