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Ambra Formenti


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Circulation and Place-Making

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Portugal | Guinea-Bissau | UK | Italy

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Mobility | Labour | Religion

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NOVA FCSH

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Ambra Formenti is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-FCSH/NOVA). She completed her PhD in Anthropology (ICS, University of Lisbon), with a thesis on Guinean Evangelical Christianity in Lisbon. Her current research project explores the recent changes in migration patterns from Portugal to the UK, by comparing the re-migration of Guinean citizens and the new paths Portuguese emigration. Her research interests include mobility, labour and religion in Africa and in the African diaspora. Her work is published in international peer-reviewed journals such as African Diaspora, Pentecostudies, Journal of Religion in Africa and Etnográfica.

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Collaborator (2023-01-01 public.person.to 2024-12-31)

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2015-

Novos padrões de migração de e para Portugal: comparação dos casos português e guineense

UID/ANT/04038/2013

Integration into Research Grant Fellow

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

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public.data_updated_at 26-10-2025 , public.from_platform public.cv_cienciapublic.cv_vitae .

Book chapter

On the Road Again: Onward Migration and Transnational Subjectivity Among Portuguese-Guinean Migrants in Peterborough (UK)

Formenti, Ambra, Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism. Jill Ahrens and Russell King. Springer International Publishing. Berlin, Germany. 2022. published

Journal article

Migrant bodies and medical bordering: travelling for health reasons from Guinea-Bissau to Portugal

Formenti, Ambra, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. 4. 5. 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105807 . 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105807 . published

Journal issue

Editorial

International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. 4. 5. 2019. https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijmbs&year=2019&vol=5&issue=4 . published

Encyclopedia entry

Portugal

Formenti, Ambra, Brill's Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online. Michael Wilkinson, Conny Au, Jörg Haustein, Todd M. Johnson. 2019. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-encyclopedia-of-global-pentecostalism/portugal-COM_033788?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.brill-s-encyclopedia-of-global-pentecostalism&s.q=Portugal . published

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Winning Guinea-Bissau for Jesus: The Guinean Evangelical Minority, from the Origins to the Present

Formenti, Ambra, PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements. 54 - 76. 1. 17. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ptcs.34875 . 10.1558/ptcs.34875 . published

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Holy Strangers

Formenti, Ambra, African Diaspora. 46 - 71. 1-2. 10. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725465-01001003 . 10.1163/18725465-01001003 . published

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Towards a global faith: History of the Evangelical movement in Guinea-Bissau | Rumo a uma fé global: História do movimento evangélico na Guiné-Bissau

Formenti, A., Etnografica. 293 - 318. 2. 21. 2017. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85023616480&partnerID=MN8TOARS . published

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Rumo a uma fé global: história do movimento evangélico na Guiné-Bissau

Formenti, Ambra, Etnografica. 293 - 318. 2. 21. 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.4912 . 10.4000/etnografica.4912 . published

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The Second Coming, Successful Life, and the Sweetness of Guinea: Evangelical Thoughts about the Future in Guinea-Bissau

Formenti, Ambra, Journal of Religion in Africa. 346 - 379. 3-4. 47. 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340112 . 10.1163/15700666-12340112 . published

Thesis / Dissertation

Going for god : mobility, place and temporality among evangelical guineans in Lisbon

Formenti, Ambra, phd. 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/15798 .

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Il Cristianesimo africano in Europa e a Torino, tra spinta missionaria e marginalità

Formenti, Ambra, Pagine. Il sociale da fare e pensare. 1. 2011. published

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Chiese pentecostali africane a Torino

Formenti, Ambra, Afriche e Orienti. 101 - 115. 3-4. 9. 2007. published

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