Laura Oso
Full Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña
Laura Oso is Full Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) at the Faculty of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña, where she has been the coordinator of ESOMI- Societies in Motion Research Team between 2011-2024. She also held the position of vice dean in this Faculty (2009 -2013). From 2018-2022 she was Vice-president for International Affairs of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) and from 2018-2023 Member of the Executive Committee at the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Currently Laura Oso is Deputy Director at CISPAC (Centro de Investigación Interuniversitario de los Paisajes Atlánticos Culturales), a unique, next-generation, pioneering centre for basic and applied research in the social and human sciences, that bring together high-level researchers from more than 30 research groups at the 3 universities in region of Galicia. The main goal of CISPAC is to study human interactions with landscapes and mainly to issues related to environmental transition, territorial management and the establishment of just relationships between people and the landscapes they inhabit.
Laura Oso is Doctor in Sociology by the Université de Paris I-PanthéonSorbonne (2002) and by the Universidade da Coruña (1997). Her research has essentially been focused on the study of gender and migration issues and, particularly, on the integration of female immigrants into the labour market (domestic service, sexual work, ethnic entrepreneurship). Other studies are also remarkable among her research lines, such as the Spanish emigration in France (female domestic workers and female caretakers, second generation) and the analysis of migrations from the perspective of intergenerational strategies and trajectories for social mobility. She equally works on the gender nexus linking gender, migration and development.
On her CV we can highlight the internationalization of her academic trajectory, including her experience as a consultant for a variety of international organizations (OECD, European Union, UN-INSTRAW) and in research stays in the United States, France and Latin America (University of California, Berkeley, Université de Paris I-PanthéonSorbonne, Université de Paris VII, Flacso Ecuador, Universidad de Buenos Aires).
She partakes in competitive International Research Networks. She is an associated member since 2007 of the IMISCOE- International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion network, being also a member since 2013 of its Board of Directors. She is also co-coordinator of the RN27 – Regional Network Southern European Societies at the European Sociological Association-ESA. She has been a member of COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Postpol (IS1209) “Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance”(2013-2017) and currently of Cost Action Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy)-CA21143 .
She has been the principal researcher of the UDC (beneficiary member of the consortium) of 5 European projects (Carewell-JPI MYBL EWG; H2020-Welcoming Spaces- 870952; Equal Convive Mais”-European Social Fund; H2020-691004-MSCA-RISE- INCASI – International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities); A New Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities for International Comparison (INCASI2-HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01-101130456).
She has been the principal researcher of 5 research projects ot the Spanish National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation (FEM 2015-67164-R, FEM2011-26210, SEJ2007-63179, SEJ2004-07750, Instituto de la Mujer- I+D+I: 53/02), a state project by AECID [Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation] and 4 projects by Xunta de Galicia [Galician government within Spain].
Laura Oso has been book editor at impact publishers (Edward Elgar, Routledge), leading the coordination of Special Issues in prestigious international journals (Identities: global Studies in Culture and Power; Sociological Research Online; Ethnic and Racial Studies). She is part of the editorial committee of international and Spanish journals (Migration and Society, Advances in Research-NY&Oxford-Berghahn Journals; Migraciones Internacionales-Mexico, Revista Española de Sociología-RES). She is Co-Series Editor of the Book Series on Southern European Societies (Edward Elgar) and a member of the Editorial Committee of the IMISCOE Book Series (Springer).