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Caitlin Procter

Part-time Professor

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

Contact info

caitlin.procter@eui.eu

Working languages

English, French

Personal website

Biography

Caitlin Procter is a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre. She is a political anthropologist and conducts research on childhood and youth, conflict, forced migration, in the Middle East and in Europe. She has conducted field research in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and has recently started working on Italy. At the MPC, she works on the protection of irregular migrants in Europe, with a focus on the work conditions and family lives.

Caitlin is also a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where her research explores the return and reintegration of children and youth in Northeast Syria and in Tunisia. Caitlin teaches qualitative research methods and ethics at the EUI, and is co-editor of the textbook Inclusive Ethnography: Making fieldwork safer, healthier and more ethical, published by SAGE (2024). Caitlin received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in International Development 2019, and her book based on her doctoral research – an ethnography of the political practices of refugee youth in East Jerusalem, titled Beyond the State – is currently under review with Cambridge University Press.

Her second book project, on coerced migration among youth from Gaza to Europe is based on research conducted as a Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2019 and as a Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the EUI in 2020. Caitlin has extensive experience as a consultant and advisor to UNRWA, UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and to European diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.

Core discipline: anthropology.

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