GARCIA ZAMORA, RODOLFO

Rodolfo García Zamora received his Doctorate in Economic Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is presently Director of the Academic Unit in Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas and is a specialist in the areas of migration, remittances and regional / rural development. Previously, he was Director of the Faculty of Economics and Academic Secretary of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. Dr. García Zamora is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) Level II; a member of the Mexican Academy of Political Science; advisor to the National Science & Technology Council (CONACyT); advisor to the Faculty of Social Sciences of UAM-Iztapalpa and to the Colegio de la Frontera Norte; he is also an advisor and mentor of the Inter-institutional Doctoral Program in Administration, UAA, UAD, UASLP, UAQ and UAZ, CIDE, COLMEX and the ITAM (Mexico); member of the Sin Fronteras IAP Trust and the INEDIM Trust. Dr. Zamora has served as a professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico) and at the Central University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).

Dr. Zamora is a member of the Euro-Latin American Development Studies Network "Celso Furtado"; the International Sociology Association; the Social Economics Network; the Latin America Academic Training (ALFA) program of the European Union (Economy & Society); the Research Consortium on Agricultural Policy; the Radical Political Economists Union; the Frontera Scholarship Association; the Association of Western Social Science. He is a member of the Sin Fronteras IAP Council; ex-president of the Mexican Association of Rural Studies (AMER); Member of the INEDIM (Institute for Studies and Dissemination on Migration, A.C.) Trust. He has extensive research experience in the field of international migration, migrant organizations, and regional / local development. The post-graduate institution where he presently serves has the distinction of being part of CONACyT's Registry of Excellence (Mexico), while its academic journals and more than 100 academic books are renowned among the national and international scientific community as well as various governments, such as the Kingdom of Morocco; Philippines; India; Turkey; Colombia; Uruguay; El Salvador; Honduras; Guatemala; Spain; Ecuador; Germany; Bolivia; and others, who are interested in the creation of new public policies on Development and Migration.
The overall aim of Dr. Zamora's effort is to seek a deeper understanding of the issue of migration from a multidimensional (demographics, historical, spatial, social, economic, political and cultural) perspective and through a transnational prism. He is primarily interested in exploring the transformations that are created through the reach and characteristics of the new migratory dynamic, which arise from changes in international relationships, institutions, legislation, structures and practices of the receiving and sending States, through progress in the building of trans-territorial citizenship. This also includes gender relations; geographical variations; migratory circuits and patterns; the use and destination of family and collective remittances; advances in the structuring and organization of migrant communities; setbacks in the area of human rights; and the development of new social, cultural and belief practices among those migrants.