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Dr. Olga Jubany Baucells

Director of the European Social Research Unit

Dr. Olga Jubany, is Reader at the Social Anthropology Department at the Universitat de Barcelona. She is a social anthropologist, author of several investigations and publications in the fields of social exclusion, social cohesion, social control and identity, from an ethnographic tradition, adopting the intersectional approach. Her work engages in topics of gender, age, migration and the labour market, with particular focus on comparative multidisciplinary research within the European framework. Dr. Jubany has a long international trajectory, having obtained her PhD at the London School of Economics (UK) where she was teacher and researcher for over 5 years.

Her current research includes the international coordination for the research project LinkAge: Labour Market Integration of Vulnerable Age Groups through Social Dialogue (DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion), and the scientific coordination of the FP7 project CITISPYCE: Combating Inequalites through Innovative Social Practices of and for Young People in Cities across Europe. She was the international coordinator for the recently concluded investigation TEAM: Trade Unions, Economic Change, and Active Inclusion of Migrant Workers (2010-2012) under DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equality, and GENDERACE: The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, funded by the EC FP7-SSH programme, and participated in PROSINT: Promoting Sustainable Policies for Integration, funded from EC- DG of Justice, Freedom and Security. Dr. Jubany regularly participates in national and international conferences and debates.

Dr. Jubany’s recent publications include:

  • Jubany, O. (2012) “No return, no refuge: rites and rights in minority repatriation”, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol 35, Issue 5, May 2012
  • Jubany, O., Güell, B. and Davis, R. (2011) “Standing up to Intersectional Discrimination: a Multi-dimensional Approach to the Case of Spain”, Droit et Cultures, Vol 62 No 2, p. 197-217
  • Jubany, O. (2011) Beyond equality: recognising and managing cultural diversity at the workplace in Zapata-Barrero i R.van Ewjik (eds) Spheres of diversities: From concept to policy. Colección Monografías, Publicaciones CIDOB: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, pp. 131-156.
  • Jubany, O. (2011) Constructing truths in a culture of disbelief; Understanding asylum screening from within. International Sociology Vol 26 No 1 pp. 74-94
  • Jubany, O. (2011)  Sindicatos e inmigración en Europa: La gran paradoja del debate actual; in Pajares, M.  i Jubany, O. (eds) Sindicatos e Inmigración en Europa: 1999-2010: Análisis Comparativo de las dinámicas y acciones de los sindicatos en Europa. Series Análisis Contemporáneo: Icaria Antrazyt Ediciones.
  • Pajares, M. and Jubany, O. (eds) (2011)  Sindicatos e Inmigración en Europa: 1999-2010: Análisis Comparativo de las dinámicas y acciones de los sindicatos en Europa . Series Análisis Contemporáneo: Icaria Antrazyt Ediciones.
  • Jubany, O. (2011) Constructing truths in a culture of disbelief; Understanding asylum screening from within, International Sociology, Vol 26 No 1, pp. 74-94.
  • Jubany, O. and Pajares, M. (2010) Nous reptes i noves propostes en la gestió de la diversitat cultural a les empreses a Catalunya. Col.lecció Estudis No 3. Consell de Relacions Laborals.  Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Treball.          
  • Jubany, O. (2009) Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today - Review, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol 32 No 6, Routledge. 
  • Jubany, O. (2008) Gènere i racisme: Més enllà de la doble discriminació. Àmbits de Politica i Societat,in"Dones Líders" Col.legi de Politòlegs i Sociòlegs de Catalunya, No 38.    
  • Jubany, O. (2008) Transnational Professionals and their Cosmopolitan Universes – Review, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol 31, Routledge.
  • Jubany, O. (2006) Refugees? - What refugees? The case of Spain. Migration Studies Vol 44 Oxford Brookes.

 

Dr Miguel Pajares Alonso,

In-House Consultant

Doctor on Anthropology, Miguel Pajares is principal investigator and scientific advisor of the ESRU participating directly in the research projects and also a researcher of the Research Group on Exclusion and Social Control (GRECS). Dr. Pajares is since 2009 the representative of Spain in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the expert selected by the Economic and Social European Committee for the elaboration of reports on migration issues since 2001. He has also been  President of the Catalan Committee for the Support of Refugees since 2001. Between 1996 and 2000 he was advisor to the Catalan Government on migration-related subjects. He has written extensively on immigration issues in Spain, especially from a socioeconomic perspective. Dr. Pajares’ recent publications include:

  • Pajares, M. (2009) Inmigración y mercado de trabajo. Informe 2009. Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración de España.
  • Pajares, M. (2008) Inmigración y Mercado de Trabajo. Informe 2008. Observatorio Permanente de la Inmigración, Secretaría de Estado de Inmigración y Emigración (MTI). Madrid.
  • Pajares, M. (2007) “Migraciones, derechos y ciudadanía” in Besalu, X. (coord.) Educar en sociedades pluriculturales. Wolters Kluwer, Barcelona.
  • Pajares, M. (2007) “El proceso de regularización en 2005: sus efectos posteriores sobre la inserción laboral de la población inmigrada” in Aja, E. and Arango, J., Las inmigración en España en 2006. CIDOB Edicions, Barcelona
  • Pajares, M. (2007) Inmigrantes del Este. Icaria. Barcelona
  • Pajares, M. (2007) “La política de inmigración en Europa” in Inmigración en Canarias: Contexto, Tendencias y Retos. Fundación Pedro García Cabrera, Tenerife.

 

Berta Güell Torrent

Researcher 

Berta Güell is a graduate in Political Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), has a postgraduate degree in ‘Immigration and Reception’ (Immigració i Acollida) and an MA in Sociological Research from the University of Barcelona. She is currently a PhD student in Sociology at the UAB. Ms. Güell’s experience covers work with intercultural projects between Latin America and Germany, as well as issues of antidiscrimination. She was the primary Research Officer responsible for the direction and conduction of the national fieldwork within the EC FP7 Genderace project including data analysis and the elaboration of national and European comparative reports and conducted the fieldwork and analysis for the PROSINT and TEAM projects. She is also responsible for the creation of research proposals at the national and regional level, as well as for providing support to the European project proposals.

Ms. Güell’s publications include:

  • Jubany, O., Güell, B. and Davis, R. (2011) “Standing up to Intersectional Discrimination: a Multi-dimensional Approach to the Case of Spain”, Droit et Cultures, Vol 62 No 2, p. 197-217
  • Güell, B. (2011) “La múltiple discriminació a Espanya. Una realitat social estesa, tot i que sovint ignorada”, p. 175-183 in Ariadna Solé (ed.) Els Fantasmes de l’Exclusió Social. Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions UB
  • Jubany, O., Pajares, M., Güell, B., Solé, A. (2010) Nous reptes i noves propostes en la gestió de la diversitat cultural a les empreses a Catalunya. Centre d’iniciatives i Estudis de Cuitadania

 

Malin Roiha

Research Assistant/Assistant Projects Coordinator

Malin Roiha holds an MA in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University. She is responsible for the elaboration of research proposals for calls at the European level and is currently involved in the coordination and research tasks of the projects LinkAge and CITISPYCE. 

Ms. Roiha’s publications include:

  • Roiha, M., Vallès, L. & Jubany, O. (2012) “El comportamiento humano en situaciones de crisis: resultados de un estudio europeo sobre víctimas de emergencias y la actuación de los profesionales”, Revista Catalana de Seguretat Pública, No 25, March 2012.