Andrea Souto García
Adjunct Professor (substitute)
Andrea Souto holds a PhD in Social and Behavioural Sciences -with international mention- from the Universidade da Coruña (2022). She holds a Master’s degree in International Migration from the Université de Poitiers, France (2016) and a degree in Sociology from the Universidade da Coruña (2014), where she is also a substitute lecturer in the Faculty of Sociology. She has been a member of ESOMI since 2017. She completed her thesis “Colombians in Spain and Brazilians in Portugal. An intersectional analysis of women’s migrations in the transnational/poscolonial space”, with an FPU contract and under the direction of Laura Oso.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the European project Carewell-TF ( (https://jp-demographic.eu/projects/carewell-tf/) and a researcher in the European project INCASI 2 (https://webs.uab.cat/incasi/).
To date, she has participated in 10 European, national and regional projects. She has carried out research stays in different international institutions, the University of Leeds (UK), COLEF (Mexico), Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), Aix-Marseille Université (France), among others. She has published several articles in high-impact journals and book chapters in prestigious publishers.
Andrea’s research interests include women’s migrations in the global South, the intersections between ethnosexual identities, migration policy and transnational labour and marriage markets. Sexualisation/racialisation dynamics, processes of physical and symbolic borderisation and border violence are cross-cutting themes in her research.