Dr. Flavia Cangià

Flavia Cangià is a social anthropologist conducting interdisciplinary research on diversity, mobility and migration issues. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 2010 at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) with a specialization on minority issues in Japan. Between 2012 and 2014, she was Post Doc at the Italian National Research Council and Research Assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Fribourg, conducting research on the relationship between complexity and socio-cultural diversity among youths.

Currently, she is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She previously worked as Researcher at the Chair HRO of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) as part of the NCCR LIVES IP6 Gender, mobility and vulnerability and the nccr on-the-move IP38 The Digitalization of Work and the (Im)Mobilities/Boundaries Paradox of IT Specialists, as well as at the Institute of Psychology and Education of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) as part of the nccr on-the-move collaborating on a project on mobile professionals and their families.

Her areas of interest and specialization are mobility, migration, work and life transitions, imagination, emotions, precariousness and socio-cultural diversity.

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