Montserrat Golías Pérez
Assistant Professor
PhD in Sociology and Master’s in International Migrations, with a double specialisation in migration policies and intercultural mediation. A researcher at ESOMI since its foundation, she has participated in over thirty competitive projects and transfer contracts at regional, national, and European levels. Holding a research sexennium, she has been a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the University of A Coruña since 2014.
Within the Faculty of Sociology at UDC, Montserrat has held various positions, including Vice Dean of Quality (2019-2021), Academic Secretary (2017-2019), Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology (2021), Coordinator of the Tutorial Action Plan (2017-2021), and Equality Representative (2020-2023). She has also been a member of the Green Campus Committee and the “ConCienciaSocial” Teaching Innovation Group. An affiliated researcher with the Interuniversity Research Centre of Atlantic Cultural Landscapes (CISPAC), Montserrat has been the Vice President of the Galician Association of Sociology (AGS) since 2025.
Her research focuses on international mobility and historical memory. Her doctoral thesis (UDC, 2014), supervised by Antonio Izquierdo, analysed the impact of the Historical Memory Law in Cuba and Argentina, exploring the transmission of Spanish nationality as a material and symbolic legacy in migrant families. This work led to the publication of Los herederos de la ciudadanía (Icaria, 2017). Currently, she is studying intra-European mobility from an intersectional perspective, leading the project “Intersecting crises post-2020 and impact on intra-EU (im)mobilities: Spanish transmigrants’ labour and family strategies” (Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2022), together with Anastasia Bermúdez (University of Seville), who is Principal Investigator 1. Since 2025, Montserrat coordinates WP8 “Creating a sustainable, inclusive and resilient Campus” at UDC, as part of the European university alliance EMERGE, funded by the European Commission (Erasmus programme)
Montserrat has also conducted research stays at international centres, the most recent being at the Gino Germani Research Institute (UBA) as part of the INCASI-1 project.
In the area of knowledge transfer, she has participated in pioneering studies such as Mareas de Pluralismo (Pluralism and Coexistence Foundation), focusing on religious minorities in Galicia, and the first report on the Gender Pay Gap in Spanish Public Universities (Ministry of Universities and ANECA), for which she was co-director alongside Matilde Massó. She has also been involved in projects with third-sector entities such as Ecos do Sur and the CEPAIM Foundation.