Valerio Simoni,  Jérémie Voirol and Elise Hjalmarson have been conducting fieldwork and participating in several events in relation to the ERC funded research project, BETLIV.

Here below you will find an update on their past and forthcoming activities.
 

PUBLICATIONS

• Simoni, V. 2019. Appartenances et identifications à l’épreuve. Migrants en visite de retour à Cuba. ethnographiques.org 37.
   
• Simoni, V. 2019. Tourism, Migration, and Back in Cuba. American Anthropologist 121(3), 755-760.
   

Conference papers

• Voirol, J. ‘From “Social Remittances” to “Moral Assemblages”: The Return of Ecuadorian Migrants From Spain and Their Reassessments of the “Good Life”’, Emerging Patterns of Mobility, Neuchâtel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 2019.
   
• Simoni, V. ‘(Re)assessing Cuba and the “Good Life” from the Touristic Borderzone’, Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 2018.
   

Invited talks and lectures

• Simoni, V. ‘Dubious Returns and the Imperative of “Success”: Some Reflections from Return Migration to Cuba’, Workshop Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities, Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, January 2020.

• Simoni, V. and Voirol, J. Articulating Morality in Return Migration, Panel Organization, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 2019.

• Voirol, J. and Simoni, V. ‘Moral Articulations of Economic Life in Returns to Ecuador and Cuba’, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 2019.

• Simoni, V. ‘From Worker to Owner: Emerging Moralities of “Trabajo” and “Negocio” in Return Migration to Cuba’, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 2019.

• Voirol, J. and Simoni, V. Imaginaires de l’entreprenariat et de contextes économiques dans les situations de mobilité, Workshop, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2019.

• Voirol, J. ‘¿Dónde se vive mejor? Narrativas sobre la “buena vida” entre migrantes ecuatorianos retornados a raíz de la crisis de 2008’, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, July 2019.

• Simoni, V. ‘Tourism, Migration, and Back in Cuba’, Workshop Freedom, Power and Time in Tourism, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, June 2019.

• Voirol, J., Hjalmarson, E., and Simoni, V. ‘Retourner vers un lieu meilleur? (Ré)évaluer la "bonne vie" en temps de crise’, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 2019.

• Simoni, V. ‘Regresando a un lugar mejor? Trayectorias migratorias Cuba-España-Cuba y la (re)evaluación de la “buena vida”’, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique latine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, France, March 2019.

• Simoni, V. Migration and the Imaginaries of “Good Life”, Invited Discussant for Panel, Session at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2018

Forthcoming

• Simoni, V. "Enacting the Good Life and Getting Stuck:  Articulations of Value in Touristic Vi`ñales, Cuba". Keynote lecture for the International Workshop, Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Lives and Uncertain Futures in Tourist Towns, Universitätt Bern, 12 March 2020.

More information on BETLIV, here