Galatea Scotti

Galatea is a social anthropologist specialising in African Studies and Migration. Through her work within the third sector, she has engaged in advocacy and provided support to refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Italy and the UK. She holds a BA in History, Anthropology and History of Religions from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and a MA in African Studies from the University of Birmingham. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, documenting the high-risk journeys of irregular migrants from a family perspective and the experiences of returnees through detention, deportation, and post-deportation. Currently, Galatea works as an intern at the Global Detention Project, conducting qualitative research and curating the blog and is part of Border Criminologies' Detention and Deportation thematic group. 

She was recently offered a PhD position at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral research will be a collaborative and ethnographic study of life after deportation in Ghana, with a particular focus on social and gendered relations, temporality, and the enduring impact of forced return on individuals and society.