Personal statement
Francis has been at the department of Work, Employment and Organisation since 2014 as a doctoral researcher and in 2018 he was appointed as a postdoctoral research associate.
He has teaching and research interests in the areas of political economy, forced displacement, labour migration, slave labour, social reproduction, and socio-environmental conflicts with a particular focus in Latin America.
He is inspired by interdisciplinary approaches and methods that focus on the active involvement of indigenous people and local communities in research.
His current work as a research associate examines the formation of southern corridors of migration in the Brazilian Amazonian region and the incorporation of migrant workers in need of Humanitarian protection into industries that are part of ‘sustainable development’ agendas.
He also values public engagement and community participation in decision-making process. He has worked closely with migrants, refugees and indigenous communities in Latin America, mediating conflict with governmental and non-governmental institutions.
Qualifications
He 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 and Mexico
Languages: Portuguese (Native Speaker), English, French and Spanish.
Professional activities
- FAO Food Summit Independent Dialogue: Defence of agrifood systems
- Member of programme committee
- 9/8/2021
- Public Hearings with migrant representatives
- Organiser
- 2/3/2021
- Public Hearings with migrant representatives
- Organiser
- 23/2/2021
- Seminar about the rights of children and adolescents for migrant organisations
- Organiser
- 9/12/2020
- Trainning For Multipliers
- Organiser
- 8/12/2020
- Trabalho Migrante: From research to Action in the pandemic
- Speaker
- 25/6/2020
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Projects
- 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
- 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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Address
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Duncan Wing
Duncan Wing
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