Dr Angelo Martins Junior
PhD
Current positions
Research Associate
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Biography
Angelo Martins Junior has a BA in Social Science and a Masters’ degree in Sociology, both from the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar/Brazil). PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2017), where he also worked as Associate Lecturer (2016-2018). He is currently working as a Research Associate at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol. Co-ordinator of the Research Challenge ‘Control, Conflict, Resistance’ at the Migration Mobilities Bristol Research Institute (MMB). Member of the Laboratory of Work, Professions and Mobility (UFSCar/Brazil). Co-editor of the on-line material of the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society. Regional editor of the Global Dialogue – International Sociological Association’s academic newsletter. Has conducted various academic projects relating to the labour market, Industrial Sociology, Mobility, Migration and Social Differentiation. Author of the books “Lives in Motion: Notebooks of an Immigrant in London” (2014) and ‘Moving Difference: Brazilians in London’ (Routledge, 2020). Currently working on the 5-year European Research Council (2018-2023) funded project, ‘Modern Marronage: The Pursuit and Practice of Freedom in the Contemporary World’, developing research in Brazil and Europe.
Research interests
Working on several research projects in Brazil and in the UK, my research interest has been concerned to issues related to the Labour Market, Mobility, Migration and Processes of Social Differentiation and Racialisation. Employing qualitative research, including ethnography in various settings and biographical narrative interviews, my research projects have dealt with groups at the sharp end of various forms of precariousness, inequality, exploitation and violence. They include, for instance, ‘The new territories of labour and production in Brazil: labour relations in the footwear cluster of Jau/SP’, and `From cleaner to waiter: trajectories of Brazilian workers in London'. My previous research, supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, examined the production and negotiation of difference among Brazilians living in London. Currently, I am working on the 5-year research project 'Modern Marronage: the pursuit and practice of freedom in the contemporary world' (ERC).
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Negotiating multiple risks: health, safety and well-being among sex workers in Brazil in times of Covid 19
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Many sex workers in Brazil face multiple forms of exclusion and risks to health and well-being, including low and sporadic earnings, violence, and STDs. Interventions into sex workers’ lives to…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/02/2021 to 16/07/2021
Negotiating multiple risks: health, safety and well-being among sex workers in Brazil in times of Covid 19
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Many sex workers in Brazil face multiple forms of exclusion and risks to health and well-being, including low and sporadic earnings, violence, and STDs. Interventions into sex workers’ lives to…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/02/2021 to 30/07/2021
Decolonising Trafficking and Modern Slavery Writing Workshop
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This British Academy funded writing workshop started from the observation that the mainstream literature on human trafficking, worst forms of child labour, illegal markets and other phenomena described as ‘modern…Managing organisational unit
Dates
03/02/2020 to 17/03/2022
8119 British Academy WW2020427 - Julia O'Connell Davidson
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
31/01/2020 to 31/12/2021
British Academy WW20200427 - Decolonising Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Principal Investigator
Description
The proposed workshop starts from the observation that the mainstream literature on human trafficking, worst forms of child labour, illegal markets and other phenomena described as ‘modern slavery’ in the…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/01/2020 to 31/12/2021
Publications
Recent publications
31/05/2022Crossing the Binaries of Mobility Control
Social Sciences
A Lei e seus Outros
Revista Trilhos
Tacking Towards Freedom?
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
‘Differentiated journeys’:
PLURAL - Revista de Ciências Sociais
O que há de errado a respeito da "escravidão moderna"?
Revista Trilhos
