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Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Office: B9-243
Liaison: Director of the Chair of Social Knowledge Transfer – UAB Research Park - Santander
Phone: +34 93 581 10 99
Email: adriana.kaplan@uab.cat
Web: www.mgf.uab.es
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Research Group
Research lines
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Senegambian migration
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Sexual and reproductive health
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Female Genital Mutilation
Projects and Agreements
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Obra Social “la Caixa”, Diputación de Álava, FAS (Fundació Autònoma Solidària), University of The Gambia, Ministry of Health (Republic of The Gambia), Cuban Medical Mission in The Gambia.
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SHORT CURRICULUM
She is an Anthropologist, a Professor of Health Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Principal Investigator of the Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Prevention and Study of Harmful Traditional Practices (GIPE/PTP).
Her research career is based on the study of migrations from the Sub-Saharan Africa and on the anthropological analysis of acculturation and social integration processes from a gender, circular and transnational perspective.
Since 1987, she has been carrying out field work in The Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau about aspects related to health issues, especially, sexual and reproductive health.
In The Gambia, she has been an Associated Researcher of the Medical Research Council, consultant of the Women's Bureau and of various international agencies ( UNFPA, UNDP, UNICEF, EU) regarding Female Genital Mutilation issues.
In Spain, she has been a consultant and a team member for different local and autonomous institutions regarding social integration policies related to migration.
Among her publications there are several articles and books of which we can highlight Migración, Cultura y Alimentación (1999) and De Senegambia a Cataluña: procesos de aculturación e integración social (1998), which was awarded the 10th Dr. Rogeli Duocastella Award in Social Sciences by La Caixa Foundation.
Concerning audiovisual productions, she directed two documentaries "Gambia, ciclo vital y supervivencia" (1991) and "Initiation without Mutilation" (2004) that brings an alternative and innovative methodological approach on the ritual of female genital mutilation. This documentary has been adopted as the official proposal of the Government of The Gambia and translated into five local languages, in addition to Spanish, Catalan and English.
In 2008, she has been awarded the International Prize for Solidarity, by the Government of Navarre.
In the framework of the Transnational Observatory of Applied Research to New Strategies for the Prevention of FGM/C, with the support of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Republic of The Gambia), the University of The Gambia, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF, she organized the first International Forum on Harmful Traditional Practices, “Exploring strategies and good practices. From local to global”, held in Brufut, The Gambia, May 5-7 th 2009.
From January of 2009, she has been granted the first Chair of Social Knowledge Transfer in Spain (Parc de Recerca UAB- Santander) for her applied research career of more than twenty years in the field of acculturation and social integration processes of the migrations, sexual and reproductive health, and, in particular, female genital mutilation.
Publications (selected)
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KAPLAN, Adriana (1998) De Senegambia a Cataluña: procesos de aculturación e integración social. X Premio de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales Dr Rogeli Duocastella, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona. 207 pp.
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KAPLAN, Adriana y CARRASCO, Silvia (1999) Migración, Cultura y Alimentación: continuidades y cambios, de Gambia a Cataluña. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra. 177 pp.
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KAPLAN, Adriana (2005) “From Senegambia to Spain: Migration process and social integration” in Monograph Migration: European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations. Nº 43/44/45 pp.52-65, EMZ, Berlín.
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KAPLAN, Adriana y RISLER, Sebastián (2006) “Initiation without Cutting” video-documental 26' GRTS, Banjul, The Gambia. (Versiones mandinga, fula, sarahole, djola y wolof).
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KAPLAN, A.; TORAN, P.; MORENO, J. (2008) “Nuevas estrategias para el abordaje de las mutilaciones genitales femeninas: la iniciación sin mutilación. Un abordaje circular Gambia-España” en Género y Desarrollo desde las Universidades: Visibilidad de las acciones y difusión de análisis de buenas prácticas. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid.
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KAPLAN, A.; TORÁN, P.; BERMÚDEZ, K.; BOLIBAR, B. y MORENO, J. (2008) “Conocer y actuar: un proyecto interdisciplinar de prevención de las mutilaciones genitales femeninas en Gambia y España”, in Studia Africana, Centre d'Estudis Africans-Barcelona. #19. pp. 42-52.
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KAPLAN, A.; CANO, F.; MORENO, J. y PÉREZ JARAUTA, M.J. (2008) “From local to global: Female Genital Mutilation in Diaspora”, en Journal of FGM and other harmful traditional practices nº 1, IAC, Geneva/Addis Abeba.
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KAPLAN, A; TORÁN, P; MORENO, J; CASTANY M.J.; MUÑOZ, L (2009) “Perception of primary health professionals about Female Genital Mutilation: from healthcare to intercultural competence” in BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:11.
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KAPLAN, A.; TORAN, P; MORENO, J.; CASTANY, M.J. y MUÑOZ, L. (2009) “Perception of primary health professionals about Female Genital Mutilation: from healthcare to intercultural competence”. In BMC Health Services Research, Nº9: BioMed Central. pp. 11.
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KAPLAN, A.; TORAN, P. y MORENO, J. (2009) “Nuevas estrategias para el abordaje de las mutilaciones genitales femeninas: la iniciación sin mutilación. Un abordaje circular Gambia-España”. En MOLINA, E.; SAN MIGUEL, N. (coords.) Universidad, Género y desarrollo. Buenas prácticas en derechos Humanos de las Mujeres. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid pp. 333-351.
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KAPLAN, A. y BEDOYA, M. (2010) “Las mutilaciones genitales femeninas: asilo, identidad y derechos humanos”. In Comisión de Ayuda al Refugiado en Euskadi (CEAR-Euskadi).Persecución por motivos de género y derecho de asilo: del contexto global al compromiso local. El sistema de asilo español frente a la violación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres y de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales Lankopi, S.A., Billbao. pp. 63-75.
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KAPLAN, A.; FERNÁNDEZ, N.; MORENO, J.; CASTANY, M. J.; RUIZ, M.; MUÑOZ, L., MONGUÍ, E. y TORÁN, P. (2010) “Female Genital Mutilation: perceptions of healthcare professionals and the perspective of the migrant families”. In BMC Public Health Nº10: BioMed Central pp. 193.
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KAPLAN, A. y LÓPEZ, A. (2010) "Mapa de la mutilación genital femenina en España 2009". Antropología Aplicada 1. Servei de Publicacions Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra.
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KAPLAN, A.; HECHAVARRÍA, S. y PUPPO, N. (2010) "Manual on female genital mutilation/cutting for health professionals". Interdisciplinary Group for the Prevention and Study of Harmful Traditional Practices (IGPS/HTP) UAB, Bellaterra.
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KAPLAN, A.; MORENO, J. PÉREZ JARAUTA, M. J. (coords.) (2010) "Mutilación genital femenina. Manual para profesionales" Grupo Interdisciplinar para la Prevención y el Estudio de las Prácticas Tradicionales Perjudiciales (GIPE/PTP) UAB, Bellaterra.
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