Antía Pérez Caramés
Associate Professor
Antía Pérez-Caramés is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the University of A Coruña. She is also a member of the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies of the same university. She is an associate member of the MIGRINTER laboratory at the University of Poitiers, France, and of the Inter-University Research Centre on Atlantic Cultural Landscapes (CISPAC). She holds three six-year research fellowships.
She has been Head of the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences (2017-2021) and Coordinator of the Master in International Migration (MOMI) (courses 2014/2015 to 2015/2016 ) and of the Master in Social Policies and Socio-community Intervention (courses 2016/2017 to 2018/2019). She is currently the local coordinator of the EuMIGS network, which brings together 13 research centres in 10 European countries that offer Master’s degrees in international migration, as well as the Franco-Spanish Master’s Degree Agreement in International Migration, AFEMMI, with the University of Poitiers, France.
She is part of the Arquivo da Emigración Galega of the Consello da Cultura Galega and the Observatorio Galego de Dinamización Demográfica.
PhD in Sociology (2010, Universidade da Coruña), her research lies at the intersection of migration studies and feminist and gender studies, and she has addressed issues such as immigration in Spain, emigration from Spain (return, onward migration, ‘new diaspora’), care work, and the population ageing. Her research approach incorporates a participatory dimension and hybridise academic language with artistic practices, in the framework of which she co-produced the documentary film ‘Si ka badu ka ta biradu’, on the migration of Cape Verdean women in Spain.
She has been principal researcher of 2 projects of the National R+D+i Programme and 2 research projects in the field of development cooperation with regional funding. She is currently directing the R+D+i project ‘Crises, migratory dynamics and living conditions of the migrant population in Spain. Comparative analysis of the effects of the Great Recession and the Great Pandemic’ (PID2020-118716RB-I00), period 2021-2024. She is participating, within the research collective Mulleres á Fronte, in the project ‘Research and participatory intervention in development and equality through music’ (Xunta de Galicia, 2023-2024) and in the artistic and research project ‘Care in the diaspora. A photographic self-exploration of Cape Verdean women in Spain’ (Instituto de las Mujeres, 2023-2024).
She has carried out research stays at prestigious centres such as the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California Berkeley, the MIGRINTER laboratory at the University of Poitiers, the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego, the Centre for Geographical Studies at the University of Lisbon and the Unité de Recherches Migrations et Sociétés at the University Paris Cité. She has been a visiting professor at the universities of Poitiers and Côte d’Azur, France.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Migraciones, Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales (REMI) and Atlánticas. Revista Internacional de Estudios Feministas.