Ms Chiara Fiscone is an Italian psychologist and PhD candidate in Migration and Intercultural Processes at the University of Genoa and a research Fellow at the Psychology Department of Stellenbosch University. Her research focuses on forced migration scenarios, with a deep commitment to making a meaningful impact on the lives of those affected by forced migration and human rights violations. Her work also delves into issues of interculturality, aiming to explore the complexities of interactions within diverse cultural contexts from an intersectional perspective. Her recent fieldwork has focused on the survival strategies employed by individuals confronting forced migration in Italy, Niger, and Palestine. Guided by the principles of liberation psychology, she is committed to research and action that fosters social change grounded in the real needs of communities working to create counter-narratives that resist the mainstream portrayal of these communities as passive victims.
Email: chiarafiscone@sun.ac.za