Blanca Garcés

Blanca Garcés holds a degree in History and Anthropology from the University of Barcelona and a PhD cum laude in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. She is currently a researcher in the area of migration at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), professor of political science at the University of Barcelona and member of the European network IMISCOE, within the editorial board Migration Politics Journal. In recent years, her work has focused on political discourses around immigration, the design of integration policies and discourses on refugees from a comparative European perspective. In her book Labour Migration in Malaysia and Spain: Markets, Citizenship and Rights (2012, Amsterdam University Press), Garcés analyzes how state regulations in the cases of Spain and Malaysia affect labor migration flows. And in the book Integration Processes and Policies in Europe (Springer, 2016), co-authored with Rinus Penninx, they propose a heuristic model to analyze integration processes and policies. Since 2021, she coordinates an H2020 project on the causes and consequences of immigration narratives in the context of increasing polarization in Europe.