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Elizabeth Challinor holds a BA in Languages and Literature – French, Spanish (Oxford 1988), a Masters in Rural and Social Development (Reading 1993) and a Masters and PhD in Social Anthropology (Sussex 1996, 2001). She has carried out field work in Cape Verde and Portugal. Her research areas include development anthropology, motherhood and migration, public policy and refugee reception. Her current research is on the role of the law in the decision-making of migrants and refugees in Portugal.

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Integrated (2022-05-01)

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2023/01/01-2023/06/30

JUSTA - Justice, equality and rights of migrant women: narratives and artistic practices for inclusion

JUSTA

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

2023-2024

PATHSCAPES - Postcolonial Atlas of Cape Verdean women in European

ID 101143747

Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: European Commission

2023/01/03-2023/04/30

Justice, equality and rights of migrant women: narratives and artistic practices for inclusion JUSTA - Justiça, igualdade e direitos da mulher migrante: narrativas e práticas artísticas para

UID/04038/2020

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

public.financiers: Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT

2022/05/01-2028/04/30

The Power to Decide: the Study of the Role of the Law in Migrant and Refugee Decision-Making in Portugal

2021.02343.CEECIND/CP1701/CT0002

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2022/09/01-

eSefarad: modalities and practices of digital patrimonialization of the Sephardic cultural legacy in Mediterranean contexts

UID/ANT/04038/2020

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2022/10/19-2026/10/28

COST action: History of Identity Documentation in European Nations: Citizenship, Nationality and Migration (HIDDEN)

CA21120

Researcher

public.financiers: European Cooperation in Science and Technology

2021/06/01-2021/09/07

#ECOS Exiles, countering the silence: memories, objects and narratives of uncertain times

609056-CITIZ-1-2019-1-PT-CITIZ-REMEM

Other

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: European Commission

2019/01/01-2019/12/31

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

UID/ANT/04038/2019

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2018/04/01-2019/05/15

Refugee and migrant hospitality in northern Portugal

Unfunded

Post-doc

2018/01/01-2018/03/31

Refugee and migrant hospitality in northern Portugal.

CRIA BPD_04038_GPQ1

Post-doc

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2018/09/01-2021/08/31

Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos: Portugal 2008-2018 Negotiating Livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2010-20

PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2018/09/15-2021/09/14

(Member) Integration of Refugees in Portugal: Assessing Moral Duties and Integration Policies in the Context of European Values and Policies

PTDC/FER-ETC/30378/2017

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2016/11/16-2017/12/31

Refugee and migrant hospitality in Northern Portugal

No funding

Post-doc

2014/12/15-2016/11/15

Mobile Citizens and the State: Cape Verdeans in Portugal.

CONT_DOUT/119/CRIA/4038/10779/1/2008

Post-doc

2012-2015

Care as sustainability in times of crisis .

PTDC/CS-ANT/117259/2010

Researcher

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

2011/01/01-2013/12/31

Projecto Estratégico - UI 3122 - 2011-2012

PEst-OE/AFR/UI3122/2011

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2010/01/15-2013/07/14

Imigrantes e serviços de apoio social: tecnologias de cidadania em Portugal

PTDC/CS-ANT/101179/2008

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2009/11-2011

T-Share Transcultural Skills for Health and Care

504666-LLP-2009-1-IT-Leonardo-LMP

Researcher

2003/11/01-2007/02/01

The production of local modernities in the social practices of development in Cape Verde

SFRH/BPD/14546/2003

Post-doc

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

public.financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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Online resource

Migrant integration policies an issue for all of us. Politicas de integração de migrantes um assunto para todos nos

Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta, 23-02-2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/2023/02/23/politicas-de-integracao-de-migrantes-um-assunto-para-todos-nos/ .

Journal article

Here and elsewhere: multi-cited destinations and refugee place-making in rural and peri-urban Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth; Octávio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva, AGER Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural. 77 - 102. 31. 2022. publishedAGER Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural

Book chapter

Who Marks the Borders of the (Un)Known? Relational Reflexivity in the Production of a Play on Forced Mobility in Northern Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, Represensting 21st Century Migration in Europe. Berghahn books. 2022. published

Book

Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses from the Global North

Challinor, Elizabeth; Octávio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva, Edições Húmus. Portugal. 2020. published

Encyclopedia entry

Women in Cape Verde

Challinor, Elizabeth; Fortes, Celeste, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.575 . published

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Book chapter

Ela para nós, não existe’: Reflexões em torno do conceito da tolerância

Challinor, Elizabeth, Tolerância e cidadania. Centro de Estudos Regionais. Portugal. 2025. published

Edited book

Tolerância e cidadania

Pereira, Pedro; Loureiro, José Carlos de Magalhães, 2025.

Journal article

Frustrated horizons: issues of trust in refugee reception services in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, Journal of Legal Anthropology. 2. 8. 2024. https://doi.org/10.3167/jla.2024.080204 . published

Online resource

Putting Heads Together: Migration and Asylum on the Table in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth; Santinho, Cristina, 2024. https://hidden-costaction.eu/putting-heads-together-migration-and-asylum-on-the-table-in-portugal/ .

Online resource

The need for a spiral like mindset: policy round table discussions of the challenges of accessing citizenship.

Challinor, Elizabeth; Alioglu Cakmak , 2024. https://hidden-costaction.eu/the-need-for-a-spiral-like-mindset-policy-round-table-discussions-of-the-challenges-of-accessing-citizenship/ .

Journal article

Navigating through the Cracks of the State System: Shifting Spaces of Hope in the Portuguese Mobility Regime

Challinor, Elizabeth, Anthropological Quarterly . 1. 97. 2024. published

Report

The Reception of Displaced Persons from Ukraine in Portugal

De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta; De Oliveira, Emellin, 2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-no-1-english-version/ .

Online resource

Migrant integration policies an issue for all of us. Politicas de integração de migrantes um assunto para todos nos

Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta, 23-02-2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/2023/02/23/politicas-de-integracao-de-migrantes-um-assunto-para-todos-nos/ .

Online resource

O acolhimento em Portugal de pessoas deslocadas da Ucrânia (Portuguese reception of displaced people from Ukraine)

De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; De Oliveira, Emellin; Lemos, Marta, 24-01-2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-n-o-1/ .

Online resource

NOVA Asylum Policy Lab, Policy Brief no.I: The reception of displaced persons from Ukraine in Portugal

De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; De Oliveira, Emellin; Lemos, Marta, 01-2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-no-1-english-version/ .

Book review

Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves and Aminah N. Fernandes Pilgrim, eds. Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 261 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.00 Paper. ISBN: 9781793634917.

Elizabeth Challinor, 18-07-2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.38 . published

Online resource

O acolhimento em Portugal de pessoas deslocadas da Ucrânia (Portuguese reception of displaced people from Ukraine)

De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; De Oliveira, Emellin; Lemos, Marta, 24-01-2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-n-o-1/ .

Report

The Reception of Displaced Persons from Ukraine in Portugal

De Angelis, Gabriele; Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta; De Oliveira, Emellin, 2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/3-publicacoes-publications/policy-brief-no-1-english-version/ .

Online resource

Migrant integration policies an issue for all of us. Politicas de integração de migrantes um assunto para todos nos

Challinor, Elizabeth; Lemos, Marta, 23-02-2023. https://novaasylumclinic.fcsh.unl.pt/2023/02/23/politicas-de-integracao-de-migrantes-um-assunto-para-todos-nos/ .

Conference abstract

Rights on the Ground: Street Level Bureaucrats’ Understandings and Practices of Refugee Protection in Portugal

Silva, Pedro Gabriel ; Sacramento, Octávio ; Challinor, Elizabeth, 2023.

Book chapter

Who Marks the Borders of the (Un)Known? Relational Reflexivity in the Production of a Play on Forced Mobility in Northern Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, Represensting 21st Century Migration in Europe. Berghahn books. 2022. published

Journal article

Here and elsewhere: multi-cited destinations and refugee place-making in rural and peri-urban Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth; Octávio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva, AGER Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural. 77 - 102. 31. 2022. published

Journal article

Here and elsewhere: multi-cited destinations and refugee place-making in rural and peri-urban Portugal

Sacramento, Octávio ; Challinor, Elizabeth; Silva, Pedro G., AGER: Journal of Depopulation and Rural Development Studies. 77 - 102. 34. 2022. http://ruralager.org/wp-content/uploads/03_Ager-34-Sacramento-et-al.pdf . published

Book chapter

Cutting the Apron Strings. Contested Interpretations of Refugee Autonomy in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses in the Global North. Edições Húmus. 2020. published

Encyclopedia entry

Women in Cape Verde

Challinor, Elizabeth; Fortes, Celeste, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.575 . published

Book chapter

Stranded in Mobility: a Crisis of Refuge

Challinor, Elizabeth; Octavio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva, Quest for refuge: Reception responses from the Global North. Edições Húmus. Portugal. 2020. published

Book

Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses from the Global North

Challinor, Elizabeth; Octávio Sacramento; Pedro Gabriel Silva, Edições Húmus. Portugal. 2020. published

Edited book

Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses from the Global North

Sacramento, Octávio; Challinor, Elizabeth; Silva, Pedro G., Húmus. Famalicão, Portugal. 2020. published

Book chapter

Stranded in mobility: a crisis of refuge

Sacramento, Octávio; Silva, Pedro G.; Challinor, Elizabeth, Quest for Refuge: Reception Responses from the Global North. Sacramento, Octávio ; Challinor, Elizabeth; Silva, Pedro G.. Húmus. Famalicão, Portugal. 2020. published

Journal article

When does difference matter Border-generating categories in the lives of foreign nationals in northern Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. 308 - 323. 4. 5. 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105811 . 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105811 . published

Online resource

Breakfast at 9pm?

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2019. https://popanth.com/article/breakfast-at-9pm .

Journal article

Refugee Hospitality Encounters in Northern Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, Migration and Society. 96 - 110. 1. 1. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2017.010109 . 10.3167/arms.2017.010109 . published

Journal article

Exploring the power of the written word: On hospital birth and the production of birth narratives,Explorando o poder da palavra escrita: Parto hospitalar, conversas fiadas e a produção de narrativas de maternidade

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Etnografica. 669 - 690. 3. 22. 2018. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055196663&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.4000/etnogra?ca.6077 . published

Journal article

Cross-border citizenship: mothering beyond the boundaries of consanguinity and nationality

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Ethnic and Racial Studies. 114 - 131. 1. 41. 2018. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85015056139&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1080/01419870.2017.1293278 . published

Journal article

The educational (im)mobilities and status (il)legalities of Cape Verdean youth in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118); Martins, F., Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2256 - 2272. 13. 44. 2018. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030159022&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1382341 . published

Book chapter

Antropologia, Moralidade e Saber Profissional

Challinor, Elizabeth, Caria, Telmo H.. Psicosoma. Viseu, Portugal. 2017. published

Book chapter

To be or not to be? Cape verdean student mothers in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth, The Cultural Politics of Reproduction Migration Health and Family Making. United Kingdom. 2015. published

Journal article

Cape Verdeans in Northern Portugal: Living with Contingency

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Mande Studies. 69 - 92. 16-17. 2015. published

Journal article

In dialogue with self and the world: Cape Verdean migrant pregnancy in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Women's Studies International Forum. 63 - 70. 52. 2015. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941316681&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.003 . published

Book chapter

Contributo para uma reflexão sobre a relação entre género, sexo e parentesco em Cabo Verde

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), As Ciências Sociais em Cabo Verde: Temáticas, Abordagens e Perspectivas Teóricas . Edições Uni-CV. Praia, Cape Verde. 2015. published

Journal article

The state of the immigrant body and the body of the State: Negotiations at the interface,O estado do corpo imigrante e o corpo do Estado: Negociações na interface

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Saude e Sociedade. 35 - 47. 1. 23. 2014. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84900524890&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1590/S0104-12902014000100004 . published

Book chapter

From Cultural Explanation to Intercultural Dialogue: a Contribution to the Study of Cape Verdean Maternal Health in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), 2014. published

Online resource

Sensory ways of knowing: When research tunes into emotions

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2014. https://popanth.com/article/sensory-ways-of-knowing-when-research-tunes-into-emotions .

Conference abstract

Cape Verdeans in Northern Portugal: Stretching the Boundaries of Anthropological Enquiry

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), 2014.

Online resource

Sex changes and changing rooms

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2013. https://popanth.com/article/sex-changes-and-changing-rooms .

Online resource

The hidden beauty of a toilet brush

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2013. https://popanth.com/article/the-hidden-beauty-of-a-toilet-brush .

Online resource

We know popcorn goes ‘pop’ but can culture ever go ‘snap’?

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2012. https://popanth.com/article/we-know-popcorn-goes-pop-but-can-culture-ever-go-snap .

Journal article

(Ir)responsible mothers? Cape Verdeans and Portuguese social care

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care. 12 - 21. 1. 8. 2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84860462164&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1108/17479891211231374 . published

Journal article

Researching ethnicity, identity, subjectivity: Anything but the four-lettered word

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Ethnic and Racial Studies. 1558 - 1576. 9. 35. 2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864022387&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1080/01419870.2011.593641 . published

Journal article

Staying with the tension: "estranged intimacy" and gendered expectations in the field,Conviver com a tensão: "intimidade" alheada e expectativas de género no terreno

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Etnografica. 569 - 587. 3. 16. 2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868550515&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.4000/etnografica.2125 . published

Journal article

O Silêncio e as Palavras: Reflexões à Volta da Participação e do Poder na Promoção do Associativismo em Cabo Verde

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), 49 - 68. 18. 2012. published

Journal article

Medical citizenship, culture and power in perinatal and pediatric immigrant care,Cidadania médica, culturas e poder nos cuidados perinatais e pediátricos de imigrantes

Challinor, E.P., Saude e Sociedade. 76 - 88. 1. 21. 2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861499990&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1590/S0104-12902012000100009 . published

Journal article

Medical Citizenship, Culture and Power in Perinatal and Pediatric Immigrant Care

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Saude E Sociedade. 76 - 88. 1. 21. 2012. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/29d58e3f-e69f-4521-9709-c4c37965d28c . 10.1590/S0104-12902012000100009 . published

Journal article

Mobile communications and belongings: Cape Verdeans in Portugal

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Identities. 303 - 319. 3. 19. 2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84865240162&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1080/1070289X.2012.699875 . published

Journal article

Identity and belonging: Beyond the material dimensions of social suffering,Identidade e pertença: Para além das dimensões materiais do sofrimento social

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Etnografica. 479 - 500. 3. 15. 2011. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864100867&partnerID=MN8TOARS . published

Book chapter

Cape Verdean Migrants and Extended Mothering

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives. Demeter Press. Canada. 2011. published

Working paper

Maternidade e Identidade em Contexto de Imigração.

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2010. https://www.cria.org.pt/en/working-papers .

Journal article

Navigating Between Globalizing and Deconstructing the Feminist: What Route for Gender and Development?

Challinor, Elizabeth, Revista Mneme . 2010. https://periodicos.ufrn.br/mneme/article/view/232/0 . published

Book

Bargaining in the Development Market Place Insights from Cape Verde

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Lit Verlag. Germany. 2008. published

Journal article

Home and overseas: The janus faces of cape verdean identity

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Diaspora. 84 - 104. 1. 17. 2008. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884765155&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.1353/dsp.2008.0015 . published

Encyclopedia entry

Cape Verde

Challlinor, Elizabeth, New Encyclopaedia of Africa. Sage Publications, Inc.. United States. 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412939607.n84 . published

Book chapter

Up for Grabs Civil Society in a Field of Conflicting Representations: A Case Study from Cape Verde

Challinor, Elizabeth (7F19-5F4A-A118), Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State. Carolina Academic Press. United States. 2005. published

Thesis / Dissertation

Reversals and Contradictions: the Study of Development as Social Practice in Cape Verde

Challlinor, Elizabeth, phd. University of Sussex Department of Anthropology . 2001.

Thesis / Dissertation

Migration and Identity: the Case of Cape Verde

Challlinor, Elizabeth, master. University of Sussex Department of Anthropology . 1995.

Thesis / Dissertation

Managing the Relief/Development Dichotomy: Issues and Options for NGOs with Special Reference to Angola

Challlinor, Elizabeth, master. University of Reading . 1993.

public.audiovisual_productions

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Short fiction

Tapas (On the Stolen Babies of Spain)

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2022

Other output

Legalization of an association with migrants and refugees "Terra de Todos" - "Everyone's Land."

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2020

Other output

Creation of Djunta Mãe - a migrant mothers' support group

Challinor, Elizabeth, 2008