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Elena Sánchez-Montijano is a Research Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Group on Migration Studies at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE, Mexico). She holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Science from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona) and a Master in International Cooperation and Development from Granada University. Previously, she was Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB and Associate Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) at UPF. Her main areas of interest are migrant integration policies, migration regimes, and the transnational relations of foreigners with their countries of origin. Currently, she is co-coordinating the project ‘Towards an Integration Policy for those on the Move in Mexico’, funded by the Open Society Foundation; researcher at IT-FLOWS project (IT tools and methods for managing migration flows), funded by the H2020 from the European Commission; and researcher at ‘Atlantic Network 2.0’ project, funded by European Jean Monnet program. She has led and participated in dozens of academic international projects and she has dozens of academic publications. She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University, in 2010, at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), Université de Liège, in 2012, and at Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in 2019.
