I study the many migration policies by which States decide to open or close paths for migrant populations (both emigrants & immigrants), from movement to integration and citizenship.

I am a Research Professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales at El Colegio de México and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), where I worked from 2014 to 2020. I have been a visiting researcher at Yale, the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, the European University Institute, the Central European University (still in Hungary), and Freie Universität Berlin. I have taught and supervised theses of all levels (BA, MA, PhD) in three countries.

My doctoral research (see Publications –> Books) received prizes by the German Political Science Association (DVPW) and the American Political Science Association (APSA). As a post-doc, I coordinated the project “Polities Beyond Borders” which studied the diaspora/emigrant policies of 22 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. Later, I led the research project “Every Immigrant is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Regulate Pathways to Integration (IMISEM)” -a winner project of the Leibniz Competition- which compared migration policies in a sample of 32 countries across three world regions: Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Our aim has been to understand migrants’ access to mobility rights, residency and integration policies, and citizenship/nationality.

As part of my services to the profession, I was the Academic Coordinator of the Master’s in Political Science at the CEI of El Colegio de México from 2022 to 2025 and I am one of the co-coordinators of the Standing Committee on Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation of the international network of migration scholars IMISCOE since 2018 and an officer in the SC Migration & Citizenship of the International Political Sciencia Association, IPSA.