phd
 

PhD Supervisor: Alessandro Monsutti
 

Profile

Noa Magnin is a doctoral student at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since September 2024. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of British Columbia in 2022. He earned a master’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology from the Graduate Institute in 2024, where his research investigated the lived experiences of Muslim students in Geneva through a phenomenological lens. Focusing on makeshift prayer spaces at the University of Geneva, he explored how these students negotiate their religious practices and spatial arrangements in a secular context, addressing broader questions of structure, agency, and subject formation.

For his PhD dissertation, Noa studies the interplay between conservative nationalism and global capitalism in Monfalcone, Italy, with Bangladeshi labor migrants at the center of this dynamic. His research examines how these intersecting structures are inscribed, contested, and navigated in the everyday religious practices and embodied experiences of Bangladeshi migrants.