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Sofia Gaspar
Sofia Gaspar is a research assistant at CIES, Iscte – Lisbon University Institute. She has coordinated several projects on binational couples, transnational families and Chinese immigrants, and has published widely in this field. In January 2023 she was appointed local coordinator of the AspirE project ‘Decision-making of aspiring (re)migrants to/within the EU: The case of labour market-leading migrations from Asia’ (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01). She is on the organizing committee of the Portuguese Sociological Association’s Migrations, Ethnicity and Racism section. Her current research activity focuses on migration policies, privileged migration, investment mobilities and the social integration of the descendants of immigrants. Her recent publications include Integração Social de Descendentes e de Jovens Imigrantes: O Caso do Concelho de Sintra (‘Social integration of descendants and young immigrants: The case of the Municipality of Sintra’) with J. Iorio (Mundos Sociais, 2023), ‘Transnational mobility of Chinese students among Portuguese-speaking countries: The role of a non-hegemonic language’, with D. Mathias, Journal of Chinese Overseas 19 (2023) and ‘In pursuit of a “good enough life”: Chinese “educational exiles” in Lisbon and Budapest’, with F. Beck, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2023).
Contact: Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-Iscte), Edifício 1, Av. Das Forças Armadas, 1649-026, Lisboa, Portugal.