SASHA KAGANSKY’ INTERDISCIPLINARY GRANT 2022 FOR THE GYA PROJECT ‘THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF GLOBAL YOUNG RESEARCHERS’

• Project Entity: Global Young Academy (GYA)
• Duration: 01/06/2021 – 01/06/2023
• Amount: 21,500 euros
• Applicant’s contribution: Key scientific staff
• ESOMI researcher: Cristina Blanco Sío-López

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MONEY IN TRANSFORMATION: ACTORS, PROCESSES AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION

• Reference: PID2019-106273RB.
• Funding Entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation. Financing: 49,923 €.
• Duration: 01/06/2020-01/06/2023.
• Principal Investigators: Carlos Maixé Altés and Matilde Massó.

CAPE VERDEAN FAMILIES IN GALICIA. IMPACT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF CARE AND REMITTANCES (FAMCABOGA)

Financing entity: Xeral Directorate of Foreign Affairs and EU, Xunta de Galicia
Duration: 09/01/2021-11/30/2022
Responsible researcher: Antía Pérez Caramés

Summary:

The project «Cape Verdean families in Galicia. Impact for the development of the transnationalization of care and remittances” aims to carry out research on the transfers of care and also remittances in Cape Verdean families that will later be applied to the production of awareness materials that make visible and value the role of migrant women in the survival and well-being on both sides of the migration stream. These audiovisual materials will focus on several representative cases of the four generations of Cape Verdean migrant women, both in Burela and on the island of origin, Santiago.

The research that will support the audiovisual production addresses the migration and settlement process of the Cape Verdean community in Galicia, paying special attention to two elements: a) the establishment of global chains of care, which favor a transnational organization of care for both people who remain in origin (children, family members, people in a situation of dependency) and the families in the destination countries (the migrant families themselves, but also native families who hire migrant labor as domestic workers); and, b) remittances, both material (economic resources, goods…) and immaterial (care, values…) that circulate in that transnational space created by migrants. Specifically, the impact that these two elements, transnational organization of care and remittances, have on development will be analyzed.

The approach to this theme will have a double longitudinal character, favored by the long history of installation that the Cape Verdean collective has in Galicia. The first wave of Cape Verdean immigrants in Galicia dates back to the 1970s, with a stable migrant community since 1978, currently very diversified with respect to the number of generations that comprise it and the types of family that constitute it. The flow has continued to this day, spanning just over four decades, which will allow us to analyze how the patterns of remittances and care have changed in the different generations of Cape Verdean migrants in Galicia, but also how these have been transformed. patterns over time and the life cycle of migrant families.

On the other hand, the approach will combine the micro and meso levels of analysis, placing special emphasis on individual behaviors and transnational households and families in this regard, as well as on the impact of care and remittances that circulate in the transnational migration space for the well-being of these individuals and families. Remittances, understood in their most material dimension, that is, the flow of monetary resources, constitute one of the main economic resources of Cape Verde at a macro level, representing, according to the latest data available from the country’s Central Bank (2020), something more than 10% of GDP. But this isolated fact hardly explains how the migration process transforms the lives of families at origin, and also obscures the immaterial or social dimension of remittances, namely, the care, values, emotions and ideas that are also transmitted and circulate between the here and there of the migratory space woven between Cape Verde and Galicia.

The relationship between migration and development constitutes a significant challenge in the fight against poverty and the international framework for development cooperation contemplates it. In fact, there is already a long history of academic inquiry into the migration-development nexus, but there are still some questions that this research aims to contribute to answering. The aforementioned link between immigration and development has a place in a new logic that tries to break the binary vision that until now focused on the relationship between a sending country and a receiving country, to talk about social spaces and transnational communities. That is, migrants are not seen as sedentary groups that develop static relationships only in the place where they live (the place of arrival). On the contrary, what we are witnessing is transnational action based on the plural links that migration gives rise to. Multiple and sustained opportunities for transnational action are created by the simultaneous interest of different actors enrolled in these transnational social fields, in which we must include not only the migrants themselves, but also the States, non-governmental entities and business corporations, which shape and enhance the permanent circulation of people, information, merchandise, symbols and capital.

INTEGRATION AND RETURN OF THE “NEW SPANISH EMIGRATION”: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPANISH COMMUNITIES IN THE UK AND FRANCE (PID2019-105041RA-I00).

• Funding Agency: Proyecto I+D+I Retos Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
• Duración: 2020-2022

CARING MATTERS. GENDER IMPACT ON CAREGIVERS OF THE ELDERLY AND DEPENDENT IN TIMES OF COVID- 19

• Principal Investigator: Dolors Comas-d’Argemir
• Funding: €99,542
• Coordinating University: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
• Principal Investigator at UDC: Raquel Martínez Buján
• Dates: 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
• Funding Agency: Fondo Supera COVID-19 Santander-CRUE-Universidades Españolas.
• Partner Universities: Universitat de Valencia, Euskal Herriko Universitatea, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidade da Coruña, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Universidad de Murcia and Universidad de Zaragoza

Summary:

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 has shown how fragile the social organisation of care of the elderly and care-dependent individuals is, and the impact on female and male carers, both in the family (unpaid) and in the paid sector.

Our research tries to focus on the impact of this crisis on the economic and working conditions of women and men who care for the elderly and dependent persons: family carers, care service workers, domestic and care workers. We focus on social care (vs health), where there is a large presence of women, many of whom suffer from the effects of the pandemic in unequal and precarious conditions. This sector has not been properly understood in the epidemiological analysis of the crisis, nor has it received appropriate political attention. As a feminised sector, all this has had led to an increase in gender inequality.

This project tries to offer visibility to the social dynamics that have had an impact on the care of the elderly and dependent individuals; in particular, how the COVID-19 crisis has affected a highly feminised sector. The social sector of care was practically ignored during the coronavirus crisis until the dramatic situation of old people’s homes unfolded as a new crisis within the health emergency. Lack of attention to this field has had severe consequences for the elderly and dependent persons, and also for those who care for them (for their health, with unknown medium and long-term after-effects). All this might lead to a change in how care is organised that might have some impact on the institutions and services involved, on the ways of caring and on the economic and working conditions of carers.

PROJECT TO IMPROVE THE EQUITABLE ACCESS OF WOMEN AND YOUTH TO ECONOMIC RESOURCES IN SOUTHERN HONDURAS. PHASE 2

• Funding Entity: Vicepresidencia e Consellería de Presidencia, Administracións Públicas e Xustiza da Xunta de Galicia. Galician Cooperation.
• Participating entities: Enxeñería Sen Fronteiras-Galicia and Universidade da Coruña. Duration: 01/01/2020 – 12/31/2021.
• Amount: 22,523.33 euros
• Researcher in charge: Belén Fernández Suárez (Universidade da Coruña)
• Number of participating researchers: 4

MIGRANT ACTIVISM NETWORK. BORDER REGIMES AND MOBILITY RIGHTS.

• Funding Entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
• Participating entities: Universities Duration: 01/01/2020 -31/12/2021
• Principal Investigator: Ana López Sala (SCIS/Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography) Grant amount: 10,000 euros
• Participating ESOMI researcher: Keina Espiñeira.

GRANTS FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND STRUCTURING OF COMPETITIVE RESEARCH UNITS IN THE GALICIAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. MODALITY A: COMPETITIVE REFERENCE GROUPS (GRC)

• Reference: ED431C 2018/25
• Funding Agency: Galician Ministry of Education, Universities and Vocational Training, Xunta de Galicia
• Duration:  1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021
• Principal Investigator: Laura Oso Casas
• Other Researchers in the Project: 15

GENDER, CROSS-MOBILITY AND TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS

• Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry for the Economy and Competition, Spanish Research, Development and Innovation for Society’s Challenges Programme, 2015 Call. Modality 1: “R+D+I Projects”.
• Duration: 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2019 – Extended 31/12/2020
• Coordinating Investigator: Laura Oso Casas.

Summary:

The general objective of this research project is to analyse “cross mobilities” in the framework of the current transnational dynamics and “superglobalisation”. In the context of the migratory cycle change that took place after the 2008 financial crisis, we will study the resilience strategies of families of foreign origin in Spain and the Spanish population currently migrating to Europe from a gender and intergenerational perspective. In order to study cross mobility we will focus on four axes: geographical and social mobility, the intersection between mobility and gender and generation, the articulation of mobility strategies of families of foreign origin and of Spanish origin, as well as the relationship between mobility and immobility strategies.

Research Team:

Concha Carrasco Carpio (Universidad Alcalá de Henares)

Almudena Cortés Maisonave (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Montserrat Golías Pérez (Universidade da Coruña)

Mercedes Jabardo Velázquez (Universidad Miguel Hernández)

Irene Masdeu (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Amelia Sáiz López (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Ana Sánchez Bello (Universidade da Coruña)

Working Group:

Paula Alonso Pardo (Universidade da Coruña)

Esther Cano Ruíz (Universidad de Salamanca)

Belén García Cabeza (Universidade da Coruña)

Natalia Ribas Mateos

Laura Suárez Grimalt (Universidad de Barcelona)

Website: https://movilidadescruzadas.es/

THE NEW EMIGRATION FROM SPAIN

• Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry for the Economy and Competition.
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Coordinating Investigator: Antía Pérez Caramés.

The goal of this project is to analyse recent migration processes from Spain to different European destinations in the framework of the migratory cycle change in our country. Our perspective considers the articulation of individual and family strategies and labour and educational trajectories to explain the individual migratory projects, while we explore how a transnational political community is created. This research considers a double comparative perspective: a) between two groups of migrants: Spanish locals and those people linked to immigration in Spain (both as actors, then remigrants; or their 1.5 and second generation descendants); and b) across three host countries: the United Kingdom, France and Germany, as the three main destinations for these new migrants in numerical terms. The analysis shall include a sociodemographic approach to the migration process in Spain; a socio-structural approach to the migrants’ trajectories, their migration strategies and social mobility aspirations, interlinked with the family and gender dimensions; and a study of the practices of transnational activism in this new Spanish migrant community. The methodology combines quantitative sociodemographic analysis by comparing the results of Spanish sources with those from the host countries; with qualitative analysis: multi-sited ethnography, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, focal group discussions and virtual ethnography.