CONNECTINGEUROPE ‘Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging’ is a ERC consolidator project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and granted to Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi (principal investigator).

The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies. How does the ‘connected migrant’ contribute to new forms of European integration and cosmopolitan citizenship? The project explores digital diasporas in relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging, focusing on how new technologies enhance new forms of connectivity between the homeland and destination countries, bus also across diasporas. Read more.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 647737).