Andrea Souto García
Adjunct Professor (substitute)
Andrea Souto García has a PhD in Social and Behavioural Sciences from the Universidade da Coruña, which was awarded an international mention. She has been a member of ESOMI since 2017, where she is currently working as a research associate on the Carewell project (https://jp-demographic.eu/projects/carewell-tf/).
Andrea’s PhD thesis, ‘Colombianas en España y brasileiras en Portugal. Un análisis interseccional de las migraciones de las mujeres en el espacio transnacional/poscolonial’ [Colombians in Spain and Brazilians in Portugal: an intersectional analysis of women’s migration in the transnational/postcolonial space], which was supervised by Laura Oso Casas, received a cum laude distinction. In her thesis, she analyses Latin American women’s migration/life trajectories in Spain and Portugal, exploring the intersections between ethnosexual identities, migration policies and labour and sexual marriage market dynamics in the destination countries.
Andrea’s research interests include migration by women from the Global South; physical and symbolic borders; processes of sexualisation/racialisation; and the production of transnational/postcolonial spaces. Multi-sited ethnography and biographical interviews are the methods most commonly used in her work. She explores gender in international migration through the lens of intersectionality and postcolonial and transnational perspectives. The themes of border work and border violence are present throughout her research.