
Dr Francis Vinicius Portes Virginio
Research Associate
Work, Employment and Organisation
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Prize And Awards
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
- Recipient
- 23/5/2021
- Santander Mobility Fund
- Recipient
- 2016
- Research Excellence Award - PhD Studentship
- Recipient
- 30/7/2014
- ERASMUS MUNDUS -European Commission Research Award
- Recipient
- 28/5/2012
Qualifications
Francis holds a Ph.D. in Work, Employment and Organisation from the University of Strathclyde, a Double Master’s degree in Migration Studies and Conflict Mediation from KU Leuven (Belgium), and the University of Lille (France), and a BA in Psychology from the State University of São Paulo (Brazil).
Regional Expertise: Latin America
Country Expertise: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese (Native Speaker), English, French and Spanish.
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Publications
- Logistics of unfreedom : the labour trafficking of Venezuelan truck drivers in Brazil
- Portes Virginio Francis, dos Santos Ferreira Livia
- Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, pp. 1-18 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231213196
- Contemporary slave labour on the Amazonian frontier : the problems and politics of post rescue solidarity
- Portes Virginio Francis, Garvey Brian, Leão Luís Henrique da Costa, Pistorio Bianca Vasquez
- Globalizations Vol 19, pp. 937-954 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2035946
- Unpacking super-exploitation in the 21st century : the struggles of Haitian workers in Brazil
- Virginio Francis, Stewart Paul, Garvey Brian
- Work, Employment and Society Vol 37, pp. 897-915 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211060748
- Informalidade e Proteção dos Trabalhadores Imigrantes : Navegando pelo Humanitarismo, Securitização e Dignidade
- Virginio Francis, I-miGRa
- (2022)
- Caminhantes da Terra
- Rojas Pinango Rosbelli Margarita, Stefano Daniela, Portes Virginio Francis
- (2022)
- Amazonia em fluxo : território, tensões e trabalho
- Stefano Daniela, Garvey Brian, Virginio Francis, Lepri Larissa, Virginio Francis, Garvey Brian
- (2021)
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Professional Activities
- Unfreedom in labour-value chains
- Invited speaker
- 22/6/2023
- Logistics of social reproduction
- Invited speaker
- 28/4/2023
- International Labour Process Conference 2023
- Speaker
- 12/4/2023
- The (in)securitization of migration in the Amazon frontier: Logistics, deregulation and the degradation of Work
- Speaker
- 26/10/2022
- So who is building sustainable development?
- Invited speaker
- 12/10/2022
- Latin American Geographies away weekend
- Participant
- 2/9/2022
Projects
- Securitisation of Nature, Displacement and Unfree labour in Brazil's Amazon
- Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Principal Investigator)
- Leverhulme Early Career fellowship (ECF)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
- UKRI CoA Covid Extension
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Researcher) Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio (Researcher)
- UKRI sponsored extension of projects affected by Covid-19
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- UKRI CoA Covid extension
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Researcher)
- UKRI sponsored extension of projects affected by Covid-19
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Agrochemical use in new agricultural commodity and bioenergy production,
- Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Principal Investigator)
- Engagement in Scotland and Berlin regarding hazardous toxin use and trade between EU and Brazil towards reduction in health implications. With UNESP-Presidente Prudente; Angeliki Lysimachou, Director of Pesticide Action Network EuropePAN-Europe; Angelika Hilbeck Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Chair of European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility; Brian Wynne, Professor Lancaster Environment Centre
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
- So who is building sustainable development? Transforming exploitative labour along southern corridors of migration (ESRC Global Challenges)
- Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius (Researcher) Garvey, Brian (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Paul (Co-investigator) Alves, José (Co-investigator)
- The participatory research aims to investigate and transform the increasingly widespread link between the concentration of migrants in need of humanitarian protection along migration corridors in the Brazilian Amazonia region; the requirement of large and flexible workforces for large infrastructure projects including construction and agribusiness; exploitative labour conditions in these industries that that are part of ‘sustainable development’ agendas. The project engages workers from Brazil, Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Senegal and various other African states in order to:
document the influence of formal and informal agents on the migrant workers' journey and employment
identify deficits in dignified work and social protection
Collectively propose transformative solutions via a range of media;
facilitate direct social dialogue between migrant workers, project partners and government, industrial, labour and non-profit agencies,at state, regional and national level - 03-Jan-2018 - 26-Jan-2021
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Contact
Dr
Francis Vinicius
Portes Virginio
Research Associate
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: francis.portes-virginio@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4977