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I do research on global migration, immobility and transnationalism. My work seeks to explain how migration arises, and how it affects societies, families and individuals. These broad questions have led to research on a range of specialized topics, including migrant smuggling, and remittance transactions, and migration aspirations. My theoretical contributions to migration studies include the aspiration/ability model (2002), the concept of involuntary immobility (2002), the asymmetries of migrant transnationalism (2008), the integration-transnationalism matrix (2014) and the scripting of remittances (2014). I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, l have a strong interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication.

Ignacio is a PhD candidate at UPF and part of DemoSoc research group. He is working on immigrants’ labour market integration and determinants of migration in Latin American countries, with Professor Pau Baizán as his supervisor. Ignacio’s first paper analyzes the assimilation model by comparing social stratification of immigrants versus natives in the Chilean context, using household survey data from years 2013 to 2017. His second and third papers deal with determinants of Colombian intraregional and extraregional migration, using event history analysis and agent based models.
Before joining the PhD program, Ignacio worked at UN-ECLAC in different issues related to social development. His research interests are social development and protection, migration, and quantitative methods. Ignacio holds a Master in Demography from Stockholm University, a Master in Migration Studies from UPF, and a degree in Sociology from University of Chile

Sara Carrasco Granger completed her bachelors degree in Policy Studies at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, NY, US (2011). Her research focus is on migration studies, human rights and global justice. She is currently completing her PhD on the migrant-refugee binary (origin, legitimization logic, judicial transposition on to international instruments, and empirical implications for human rights achievement).

She currently works as Technical Researcher at the Department of Public Law I and Political Science at Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid (Spain), and is member of the Good Governance Observatory of the Rey Juan Carlos University research team.

She has completed a Master in International Migration (University of Valencia, 2019), a Master in Public Policies and Ethics for Democratization and Development (IEPALA, University Complutense of Madrid, 2013), as well as academic research fellowships completed at the University of Chile, Chile (2011), Université Catholique de Lille, France (2019), as well as the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2023) and is alumni of the School of Civic Studies in Civicaly Engaged Research at Tufts University, Boston, M.A., U.S (2021). She also holds a Diploma in Mental Health in Situations of Political Violence and Catastrophes from the Community Action Group, Complutense University of Madrid (2016) and currently collaborates with the Platform for International Cooperation of Undocumented Migrants (PICUM).

She has been a member of several research projects related to migration: migration to the European Union (H2020 PERCEPTIONS Project); International Refugee Visa Research in collaboration with the International Bar Association in Paris, France, 2019; intervention with unaccompanied foreign minors under the supervision of Professor Emmanuel Jovelin, Université Catholique de Lille, France, 2019; human rights in the West Bank in collaboration with the Women's Affairs Technical Committee of Ramallah, Palestine (2013), and West Side of Syracuse Community Organizing project under the supervision of Professor John Burdick, Syracuse University, NY, US (2010).

I am a political scientist and I have a doctorate in Social Studies (political processes) from the UAM (Mexico).

The topics of my interest are: voting abroad, transnational suffrage, political parties, electoral systems, democracy and civic education, as well as quantitative methods for political analysis.

My latest book is entitled Electoral Governance and Extraterritorial Voting in Mexico, 2005-2018, published by the Guanajuato electoral institute.

Dr Carrillo Lerma is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) and a Lecturer at Sciences Po - Paris. Her research interests and expertise touch upon diaspora politics, memory politics/politics of memory, social transformation, conflict transformation, and participatory research methodologies.
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