Dr. Andreea R. Torre

Course Coordinator/Fellow - DG400 Advanced Research Methodology

Email: torre_a(at)usp.ac.fj

Office Tel: (+679) 323-2780

Office: S215 (FBE Building)

Andreea R. Torre has an interdisciplinary background in modern languages and literatures, social anthropology and migration studies, and is currently in the process of finalising her PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main theoretical interests focus upon themes of low-wage (irregular) labour, migration and the state; transnationalism, community and identity; gender and immigrant agency; and research methodologies.

While completing her PhD, Andreea has worked on several research projects dealing with the labour market integration of migrants and refugees in Europe; transnational welfare policies for the care sector; the feminisation of labour migration; the local governance of migrant integration; and targeted policies for Roma integration in Europe (see CV). Those projects involved comparative fieldwork in European and non-European countries (Italy, UK, Romania, Ukraine, Ecuador) as well as the use of innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies combining participant observation, photo-elicitation, conscousness-rising workshops, group-diaries, alongside with semi-structured and narrative interviews and participant observations.

She is currently teaching “Advanced Research Methodologies” in the School of Government, Development and International Affairs at the University of South Pacific

Academic Qualifications:

• PhD in Sociology - London School of Economics
• MSc in Social Anthropology - University College London (UCL).
• BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Laurea) - University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ (Italy) 

Research Interests:

• transnational labour migration
• migration, gender and development
• the study of cultural difference, identity formation and belonging
• migration governance and impact of migration on structures and processes of governance
• research methodologies

 Publications

• Torre, A. R. et al. (2009), Migrazione come questione sociale. Mutamento sociale, politiche e rappresentazioni in Ecuador, Romania e Ucraina, CeSPI WP 57/09
• Torre, A. R. and Cangiano, A. (2008), Diversity policy in employment and service provision. The city of Torino, Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of the Living and Working conditions, CD-ROM
• Torre, A. R. (2008), Living transnationally. Romanian migrants in London, London: RunnyMede
• Torre, A. R. and Cangiano, A. (2008), Case study on diversity policy in employment and service provision. The city of Brescia, Italy, Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of the Living and Working conditions, CD-ROM
• Floya, A., Cederberg, M., and Torre, A. R. (2007), Mapping of Policies and Policy Analysis, the UK case, Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society. Policy Assessment and Policy Recommendations. A Specific Targeted Research Project of the 6^th Framework Programme of the European Commission
• Torre, A. R. (2007), The Italians of Romania. Ethnography of a village of Dobrogea, in Studi Emigrazione, April-June, 166: 461-76
• Sigona, N. and Torre, A. R. (2006), Roma: no voice for the Roma, in Political participation and media representation of Roma and Sinti in Italy, OSCE/ODIHR, 
• Sigona, N. and Torre, A. R. (2006), Positive contributions: Being a refugee in Britain, Refugee Housing Association, London, 

 Conference papers and Presentations

• April 2011 - University of Oxford, COMPAS - Making Connections: Migration, Gender and Care Labour in Transnational Context, Paper presented: “Caring for the young and the elderly: Romanian migrant women in London and Rome”
• Dec. 2008 - Transnational Domestic Workers and the National Welfare State. EUROCORES ECRP Networking Event sponsored by ESF. Conference centre “De Roos”, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Paper presented: “Care migration from Romania: the impact on individuals, families and the welfare systems”
• Nov. 2008 - Young Immigrants and Their Families. Osservatorio Nationale sulla Famiglia (National Observatory on the Family), Ancona (Italy). Paper presented: “Romanian transnational families in London and Rome”
• Nov. 2008 - Transnational Parenthood and Children Left Behind. PRIO, Oslo (Norway). Paper presented: “Care migration and the impact on families. A comparative study of women migration from Romania, Ukraine and Ecuador”
• April 2005 - 10th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York. Paper presented: “Negotiating Ethnic Identity in Post-Communist Romania: The Case of the Italians”