Resumen CV

With a wide and diverse teaching career, I have been a teacher since 1999 and currently as a Full Professor at the UAL (since April 2009).

I have taught in the old Diplomas of Labor Relations and Tourism, in Sciences of Work, Psychology and Humanities and in the Doctorate and Postgraduate/Master's Program, with a mention of quality: Globalization, Multiculturalism and Social Exclusion. She has taught the Master's Degree in Gender Studies. I continue as a teacher in the degrees of Tourism, History, Humanities and in the current Master in Studies and Social Intervention in Migrations, Development and Vulnerable Groups. The score obtained in the evaluation of the teaching activity is higher than the degree, Faculty and University. In research, the line that I have developed is fundamentally about migratory movements. I have more than seventy publications in national journals (Demófilo, Scripta Nova, Papers, Labor Sociology, International Journal of Sociology, Spanish Journal of Sociological Research, Anthropology Gazeta, etc.) and international (Sociology, REMI, International Migrations, Forum Hispanic, Colombian Journal of Sociology, Anthropological, Anthropologia, Andamios, Estudios Sociales, Polish Sociological Review, Nutrients, Social Sciences.), included in Q1 JCR or SJR indexing catalogues). I am the author of five books, co-author of seven, and seven as co-editor, as well as author and co-author of more than forty book chapters.

My research career is also based on participation in more than fifty research projects and/or contracts, both locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Highlighting, among them, an R&D research project and three transnationals (EQUAL ARENA II, Andalucía Integra and Paralelo 36 -POCTEFEX-), investigations that have resulted in multiple participations in national and international conferences. I have been and am a member of different research groups: HUM (472), Fundación Centra Migration Group, member of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES).

I have been a guest researcher at various internationally renowned research and teaching centers, among others, Fernando Pessoa University, University of Antwerp, National University of Tucumán, Center Nacional Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA) Holguín (Cuba), Guadalajara (Mexico).

My participation in University Management stands out, as General Secretary in twelve editions of the Immigration Congress, President in two editions; member of the Board of Teaching Staff and Faculty Senate. For three years I have held the position of Director of the Intercultural Secretariat and the Secretary of the Immigration Observatory of the University of Almería. I have been Coordinator of the Degree in Humanities, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Secretary of the Faculty and Vice Dean of Plans and Employment of the Faculty of Humanities.

I have been granted five regional supplements and three six-year research periods by the ANECA Agency.

From 2010 to 2020 I was the director of the LABORATORIO research group OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (LASC HUM-472), and I am the head of the Center for Migration Studies (CEMyRI) ath the University of Almería.