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Berta Álvarez-Miranda Navarro

Associate Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she teaches Sociology of Migration at undergraduate and master's level.

 

Her research deals with migration policies, attitudes of and towards migrants, and interethnic social practices. More particularly, she is interested in the situation and attitudes of Muslim immigrants in Europe; in this field she has worked on the international comparison of policies of accommodation of Islamic worship, on the quantification of the influence of religiosity on national identity, and on the ethnographic observation of the social networks of irregular migrants from Morocco. Her most recent work compares identities and activism of Muslims in response to political polarization over Islam in Europe, and revises dominant theories of migration as a weapon of hybrid warfare in the context of border control externalization in the Mediterranean.

Between 2013 and 2017 she was in charge of a hundred and fifty surveys as director of the Research Department of the Sociological Research Center (CIS). Among those related to immigration, those on Attitudes towards Immigration, Perception of Discrimination in Spain and the European Social Survey are worth highlighting. She has collaborated in the development of knowledge on migration issues with other institutions like the Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan, the National Human Rights Council of Morocco, LaCaixa Foundation, the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), the Permanent Immigration Observatory (OBERAXE) of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security, the Savings Banks Foundation (funcas), and the Community of Madrid. The European Sociological Association entrusted her with creating its Sociology of Migration research network.

Her publications include the following (see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0855-613X):