Rita Ávila Cachado
Department of Social Research Methods
Office AA3.19
(ext:)
711241
Research Fields
Anthropology
Urban Anthropology
Ethnography
Social Housing
Transnational Mobilities
Urban Mobilities
Hindu-Gujarati Diaspora
Field Notes
CV
Rita
Cachado
holds
a
PhD
in
Urban
Anthropology
(International
Doctoral
Program
in
Urban
Anthropology,
Lisbon,
Iscte,
Tarragona,
URV,
2008),
and
is
an
integrated
researcher
at
CIES,
Center
for
Research
and
Studies
in
Sociology,
Iscte.
She
began
working
on
topics
related
to
migrations
and
social
housing,
South
Asian
mobilities
and
transnationality,
and
is
currently
dedicated,
in
her
individual
project,
to
the
study
of
Urban
Ethnography
in
Portugal
and
ethnographic
archives.
Among
her
main
publications
are
“The
Special
Rehousing
Program:
Historical,
political
and
social
environment”
(2013)
doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2013206.06,
“Beyond
Martim
Moniz.
Portuguese
Hindu
Gujarati
merchants
in
Lisbon”
(2017)
https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.4871,
and
with
Sónia
Vespeira
de
Almeida,
“Archiving
Anthropology
in
Portugal”
(2019)
doi/10.1111/1467-8322.12484.
Educational Qualifications
Projects
Recent Publications
Comunications
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