naiara rodríguez-peña peña

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Naiara Rodríguez-Peña is Assistant Professor at the University of Deusto and Postdoctoral researcher at the University for Continuing Education Krems. She holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Kent and the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier. She has been involved in several research projects on migration and development, including the ERC-funded MADE project, the COST EthmigSurvey data project, and the Horizon 2020-funded MOVES project. She is currently involved in the FWF-funded PATHWAYS project, which examines the consequences of involuntary immobility for individuals and localities. Her research focuses on migration decision-making processes and immobility, the capability approach and development, aspirations, and the good life. More broadly, she is interested in understanding how migration and immobility are shaped by –and, in turn, shape– societies, families and individuals. Her research has received the Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award and her PhD dissertation received the Best Dissertation Award from the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association.

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