Montserrat Golías Pérez
Associate Professor
Montserrat Golías Pérez has a PhD in Sociology and a Master’s Degree in International Migration, specialising in migration policy, research and intercultural mediation. She currently holds the positions of Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Universidade da Coruña. She belongs to the ‘ConCienciaSocial’ Teaching Innovation Group on sustainability and social responsibility, is a member of the Historical Memory Chair at UDC and represents the university on A Coruña City Council’s Democratic Memory Council.
Montserrat’s research explores topics relating to international migration, identity, citizenship, the Historical Memory Law and religious pluralism.
Her work analyses migration flows as a consequence of the shock waves sent out by historical migration. She studies the twofold legacy passed down from generation to generation in migrant families: a material legacy, based on legal ties to Spain in the form of Spanish citizenship, which confers rights and enables greater mobility, and a symbolic legacy, which is the identity passed down through historical and family memory, shaped by emigration driven by necessity and political persecution.
Her publications include the chapter ‘The grandchildren of Galicia: lived and imagined citizenship’ (2017) in DePalma, R. & Pérez-Caramés, A. (eds.) Beyond Global Cities: A Case Study of Emerging Superdiversity. New York: Springer, pp. 81-92, and the book Los Herederos de la Ciudadanía published by Icaria in 2016. She coordinated the book Mareas de pluralismo. Minorías religiosas en Galicia (2014), Barcelona: Icaria, edited by Antonio Izquierdo, as well as authoring and co-authoring several chapters.