Teaching & Academic Positions

Academic Services

  • Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
  • Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Political Science, Center for International Studies of El Colegio de México (since January 2022).
  • Co-Coordinator of the Standing Committee “Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation” (MIGCITPOL) of IMISCOE – with Ana Margheritis (U. Torcuato di Tella), Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova (U. Neuchatel), since July 2018.
  • Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press; Latin American Research Review, Theory and Society, Law & Social Inquiry, Estudios Políticos, Citizenship Studies, International Migration, Comparative Migration Studies, Third World Quarterly, etc.
  • Expert in suffrage and citizenship for the GLOBALCIT Observatory (European University Institute, Florence) since 2013.

Courses

  • “Teorías y métodos de investigación I: Seminario de Tesis” | “Research Theories and Methods I: Thesis Seminar”, compulsory subject for students of the MA degree in Political Science, specialization in International Relations, August-December 2022
  • “Metodología de la investigación II: Métodos cualitativos para la Ciencia Política”| “Research Methodology II: Qualitative Methods for Political Science”. Mandatory course for students of the MA degree in Political Science, January-May 2022.
  • “Migración como asunto político y de políticas públicas” | “Migration as a Political and Public Policy Issue.” Elective for students of the BA degrees in International Relations, and Public Policy and Administration of the Center for International Studies of El Colegio de México, January-May 2022, January-May 2023.
  • “Europa Contemporánea” | “Contemporary Europe”. Mandatory course for students of the BA degree in International Relations, El Colegio de México, August-December 2020.
  • “Políticas Migratorias en perspectiva comparada” | “Migration Policies in Comparative Perspective”, CIDE & Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2020, 2021 and 2022 [Block Seminar in the Executive Training Course “Migration and Migration Policy”]
  • “El acceso de los migrantes a los derechos de ciudadanía (derechos políticos) y a la nacionalidad en perspectiva comparada”| “Migrants’ Access to Citizenship Rights (Political Rights) and Nationality in Comparative Perspective.” UNED; Pontevedra, Spain, 2018 [Summer Course].
  • “Citizenship and Diasporas”, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, 2016. [Leadership Seminar]
  • “Political Thought”, Lectures for the Faculty of Universities of Myanmar / 2014-2016, Yangon, and Mandalay. [Curriculum Design Seminar for Teachers].
  • “Migration Policies and Policies”. Elective for master’s students in Public Policy, Political Science, International Relations, and History, Central European University, Budapest. October-January 2013, 2014, and 2016. [Graduate Seminar]
  • “Comparative Political Institutions”. Compulsory Course for Master’s Students in Public Policy: Winter Term 2013, Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest.
  • “Introduction to Political Theory and Philosophy”, Political Science, Summer Semester 2008, University of Bremen.

Supervised theses

  • “El rugir del león: Las políticas para la diáspora de la República Popular China y la comunidad china en México” | “The Lion’s Roar: The Diaspora Policies of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Community in Mexico of the Chinese community in Mexico, by Andrea Estefanía Porcayo Dorantes, BA in International Relations, CEI, El Colegio de México, 2024.
  • “La agencia que prevalece ante la asimetría. Sobre los intereses del Sur Global en la aceptación de acuerdos bilaterales de externalización de políticas migratorias” | “The agency that prevails in the face of asymmetry. On the Interests of the Global South in the Acceptance of Bilateral Agreements for the Externalization of Migration Policies”, by Michelle Quinones Guzmán, MA in Political Science, CEI, El Colegio de México, 2024.
  • “Invisible Hand: The Policies and Non-Policies that Precarious Migrant Domestic Work” by So Young Chang, PhD in Sociology, University of Bielefeld [degree: summa laude] (in co-supervision with Thomas Faist), 2022.
  • “El derecho a la participación electoral de personas migrantes mexicanas y su representación a nivel subnacional” | “The right to electoral participation of Mexican migrants and their representation at the subnational level”, by Ricardo Ramírez Galindo, MA in Political Science, CIDE, 2022.
  • Reviewer and member of the jury of the thesis “Derechos de los migrantes, voto y resocialización: sufragio en Chile y Ecuador, 1925-2020” | “Migrants’ rights, voting and resocialization: suffrage in Chile and Ecuador, 1925-2020” by Victoria Finn, PhD in Political Science, Leiden University (Netherlands) and Diego Portales University (Chile), 2021.
  • Reviewer of the thesis “Migrants’ access to social protection in the Middle East. Transnational Social Protection and the Migration Decisions of Egyptian Voluntary Migrants” By Hala Abdelaziz, MA in Public Policy, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, 2021.