Laura
Oso Casas

Laura Oso is University Professor in the Faculty of Sociology at the Universidade da Coruña, where she has been teaching and researching since 1995, having also held the position of Vice-Dean in the same Faculty (2009 to 2013). Since 2022 she has been Deputy Director Commissioner of CISPAC (Inter-University Research Centre for Cultural Atlantic Landscapes), a new generation inter-university research centre, integrated in the Galician University System. She was coordinator of ESOMI (Societies in Movement Research Team) at the UDC for 13 years (2013- February 2024). PhD in Sociology from the Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (2002) and the Universidade da Coruña (1997), her research work has focused mainly on the study of gender and migration issues and, specifically, the integration of immigrant women in the labour market. Her lines of research also include the study of Spanish emigration in France (women domestic workers and second-generation), as well as the analysis of migration from the perspective of inter-generational strategies and trajectories of social mobility. She also works on the gender, migration and development nexus. She has been a consultant for various international organisations (OECD, European Union, INSTRAW-UN) and has carried out research stays in the United States, France and Latin America (University of California, Berkeley, Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Université de Paris VII, Flacso Ecuador, Universidad de Buenos Aires). Between 2018 and 2022 she was vice-president for international activities of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES), being currently president of the Migration Committee of this same Federation. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA) (2018-2023). She has also been associated with COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Postpol-IS1209). She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the IMISCOE- International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Network and co-coordinator of the RN27- Regional Network Southern European Societies (European Sociological Association-ESA).She is also involved in Cost Action CA21143 - Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy). She has been a book editor at high impact publishers (Edward Elgar, Routledge), leading the coordination of monographs in internationally prestigious journals (Identities: global Studies in Culture and Power; Sociological Research Online; Ethnic and Racial Studies). Laura is also member of editorial boards of international journals (Migration and Society, Advances in Research-NY&Oxford-Berghahn Journals; Migraciones Internacionales-México) and Spanish journals (RES).She is Co-Series Editor of the Book Series on Southern European Societies (Edward Elgar) and member of the Editorial Committee of the IMISCOE Book Series (Springer).