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).