Paula Alonso

Paula holds a BA degree in Sociology from the University of A Coruña (UDC). She has specialized in international migration completing the Official Master’s Degree in International Migration: intercultural mediation, research and public policies from the University of A Coruña and she was a trainee researcher within the Research Staff Training programme of the University of Santiago de Compostela, in the Social Pedagogy and Environmental Education (SEPA) research group, coordinated by José Antonio Caride (USC) and with which she collaborates.

She is currently on a contract as a management and research assistant in the ESOMI, financed by the Galician Government within the framework of Consolidation Aids for Competitive Reference Groups (GRC20014-048) and she is writing her doctoral thesis on ‘The Distinguishing Use of Educational and Social Times Among Migrant Teenagers – Incidence of this Use on Family, School and Community Socialization Processes’”, co-directed by José Antonio Caride (USC) and Laura Oso Casas (UDC). Her research lines are focused on the use of educational and social times among migrant teenagers, educational strategies among migrant families, socialization processes in migrant minors and educational policies collaborating with several publications.