SANCHEZ MONTIJANO, ELENA

Elena Sánchez-Montijano is Research Professor at CIDE (Mexico). She holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Previously, she was Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Migration Programme at Barcelona Centre of International Affairs (CIDOB) and an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (GRITIM-UPF) and adjunct professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra since 2010. She was guest lecturer at the Inter-university Master's Degree in Contemporary Migrations at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) since 2013. Currently, she is SAHWA project Scientific Coordinator funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission; and researcher at MENARA project and FEUTURE project, both funded by Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission. Also she is co-director of the project Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX 2015), funded by the European Commission through public call. At the national level she has directed the project “Discrimination in the Nationalisation of Immigrants in Spain” (DNIs), funded by the Open Society Foundation. She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University, in 2010 and the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), Université de Liège, in 2012.