Natalia
Moraes Mena

Natalia Moraes Mena is Tenured Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Murcia. Her main research interests focus on international migration, sociology of education and political sociology. In relation to her lines of research, she has been part of research teams in national and international calls for projects under a competitive regime. She was coordinator of the Erasmus+ KA2 Project Refugium: building shelter cities and a new welcoming culture. Links between European universities and schools in Human Rights (2016-2019, financing of 334.695 euros). This project represented coordinating the research and transfer work of the four member universities of the consortium: University of Murcia, University of Salerno (Italy), ISCTE (Portugal), University of Lund (Sweden). Within the framework of this project, different dissemination and transfer actions were also developed, especially the activities carried out within the framework of the Science Week and the conferences and workshops in secondary and high school education centres on the situation of the migrants and refugees in Europe. She has published more than 15 research articles in prestigious journals that are catalogued in the most important databases for the social sciences such as JCR, SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index, LATINDEX, etc. The results of her research have led to different books published in prestigious publishers (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, EDITUM, Editorial Catarata, Peter Lang), in which she has participated as co-editor or author. The book Migration and political participation had an important impact at the time, both outside and within Spain, and was reviewed in numerous specialized journals such as International Migrations, from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico), Andina Migrante, from Flacso (Ecuador) and Latin America Hoy, from the University of Salamanca. Similarly, the book The Refugee Crisis was also featured in several important publications, including the newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique (Spanish version), and was recommended in various national press media. On the other hand, she has published more than twenty book chapters, also in prestigious national and foreign publishers. She has presented more than 40 communications and papers in national and international conferences in her line of research. He has participated in international and national scientific seminars and activities as a speaker and guest speaker, organized in many countries. She has three recognized periods of six years of research. Her most relevant contributions in terms of knowledge generation have been the following: demonstrate the importance of incorporating a transnational perspective in migration studies; publicize the impact of transnational political practices of migrants in their countries of origin and the influence of migration and asylum policies on the living conditions of migrants and refugees; give an account of the role of the approach of political opportunity structures in the analysis of migrant participation and mobilization, show the impact of transnational regulations on the working conditions of migrants in agriculture, provide knowledge about the socio-educational trajectories of the children of migration and on the discourses on them in the educational field.