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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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I'm an anthropologist. I became interested in Arab and Muslim contexts, which are central to my academic work. Initially in Mauritania and Morocco, more recently in Portugal. My themes of research are gender and family but I often go where the fieldwork takes me. I integrate a collective of anthropologists that directed the documentary A Ramadan in Lisbon, a project I'm really proud of. I'm currently a postdoctoral fellow, conducting research about Islam in Portugal. I'm a researcher at the Center for Network of Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology at NOVA-School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Lisbon, Portugal

I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Brown University. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Regional Planning from the New University of Lisbon and a Master's of Arts degree in Sociology from Brown University.

My research interests lie in the intersection of international migration, race and ethnicity, and urban spaces. More specifically, my current scholarship looks at how immigration-driven ethnoracial diversity shapes social (especially intergroup) interactions and attitudes; and at how race and racism influence the outcomes, experiences and social networks of international migrants.

My ongoing dissertation project looks at how race and racism matter for understanding the outcomes and migration processes of international migrants. Specifically, it examines how: ethnoracial identities are transformed during migration processes; race and racism shape the incorporation outcomes and the transnational networks of migrants; and how all these processes are shaped by differences in meso-level factors and macro-level contexts of racial formation and migrant reception. I focus on one ethnoracially diverse migrant group in two comparable metropolitan areas: Brazilians in Boston (United States) and Lisbon (Portugal).

Beyond the dissertation, I am currently working on two papers looking at the aspects influencing trust in neighbors and the establishment of interethnic contacts in twelve ethnically diverse neighborhoods located in four European cities: Bilbao, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Thessaloniki, Greece; and Vienna, Austria.