Publicaciones – Grupo de investigación sobre Inmigración, Mestizaje y Cohesión Social

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Rodríguez-García, D. (in preparation) “Race & Racism in Spain.” Invited entry for The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Edited by John Solomos, Claire Alexander & Remi Joseph-Salisbury. London: Routledge.

Rodríguez-García, D. (in preparation) “Intercultural Relationships and Marriages in Spain.” Invited entry for The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial Relationships and Mental Health. Edited by Roy Moodley, Kelley Kenney y Shivon Raghunandan. London: Routledge.

Rodríguez-García, D. (in press) “Intermarriage”. Invited entry for The Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism. Edited by Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas & Melissa Moralli. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2023) Beyond the Frontiers of Mixedness: New Approaches to Intermarriage, Multiethnicity, and Multiracialism. Special Issue guest-edited for Genealogy. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special_issues/multi_racialism

Habimana-Jordana, T.; Rodríguez-García, D. (2023) “Mixedness and Intersectionality: The Use of Relief Maps to Understand the Experiences of MultiracialWomen of African Descent in Spain.” Genealogy, 7(1): 6. DOI: 10.3390/genealogy7010006. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7010006

Rodríguez-García, D., Rodríguez-Reche, C. (2022) “Daughters of Maghrebian Muslim and Native non-Muslim Couples in Spain: Identity Choices and Constraints.” Social Compass, 69 (3). DOI: 10.1177/00377686221091045 https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686221091045

Rodríguez-Reche, C., Solana-Solana, M., Rodríguez-García, D. (2022) “I think I’m agnostic because I have a Muslim father and a Catholic mother’. Religious transmission to children from interfaith unions in Barcelona under the process of secularisation.” Journal of Beliefs and Values, 43 (2): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2022.2052619

Rodríguez-García, D. (2022) “The Persistence of Racial Constructs in Spain. Bringing Race and Colorblindness into the Debate on Interculturalism.” Social Sciences, 11(1):13. DOI: 10.3390/socsci11010013. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11010013

López-Gay, A.; Ortiz, A.; Solana-Solana, M. (2022) “Vivienda, cambio poblacional y desplazamiento en un barrio en proceso de gentrificación. El caso de Sant Antoni (Barcelona)”, Eure. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 48 (143). doi.org/10.7764/EURE.48.143.06

Rodríguez-García, D., de Miguel Luken, V. de, Solana, M., Ballestín, B. (2021) “Generación 2.5. Un análisis sobre la integración social de los hijos/as de uniones mixtas en España a partir de los datos de la Encuesta ILSEG”. En Rosa Aparicio y Alejandro Portes (eds.), Los nuevos españoles: la incorporación de los hijos de inmigrantes. Barcelona: Bellaterra, Cap. 7, pp. 183-226. ISBN: 978-84-18684-39-5 https://www.bellaterra.coop/es/libros/los-nuevos-espanoles

Ortiz Guitart, A., Rodríguez-García, D., Solana, M. (2021) “Negociación de la identidad religiosa de jóvenes de familias mixtas interreligiosas musulmanas en España: dinámicas de género, posibilidades y condicionamientos”. Migraciones, 52: 287-314. https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.i52.y2021.010

Rodríguez-García, D., Habimana Jordana, T., Rodríguez Reche, C. (2021) “‘Tú como eres negra, harás de lobo’. El debate pendiente sobre la cuestión de la ‘raza’ en España”. Periferia: revista de investigación y formación en antropología, 26 (1): 29-55. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/periferia.833

Habimana-Jordana, T. (2021) “Una aproximació metodològica a l’estudi de la mixticitat des de la interseccionalitat i l’auto-antropologia”. Quaderns de l’ICA 37 (1): 135-158.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2021) “Forbidden Love: Controlling Partnerships Across Ethnoracial Boundaries.” In International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Claude-Hélène Mayer and Elisabeth Vanderheiden. Switzerland: Springer, Chapter 48, pp. 923-942. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3. ISBN 978-3-030-45995-6.

Rodríguez-García, Dan; de Miguel Luken, Verónica y Solana-Solana, Miguel (2021) “Las uniones mixtas y sus descendientes en España: evolución y consideraciones sobre la mixticidad”. In Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración2020, J. Arango, B. Garcés, R. Mahía, & D. Moya (dirs.), Barcelona: CIDOB, pp. 168-195. ISBN: 978-84-92511-93-8 DOI: doi.org/10.24241/AnuarioCIDOBInmi.2020.168

Rodríguez-García, D., Irastorza, N., Osanami Törngren, S. Eds. (co-first authorship) (2021) Re-constructing ways ofbelonging: Cross-country experiences of multiethnic and multiracial people. Special Issue Guest-Edited for Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (4). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/47/4

Osanami Törngren, S., Irastorza, N., Rodríguez-García, D. (co-first authorship) (2021) “Understanding Multiethnic and Multiracial Experiences Globally: Towards a Conceptual Framework of Mixedness”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (4): 763-781. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1654150

Rodríguez-García, D., Solana, M., Ortiz, A., Ballestín, B. (2021) “Blurring of Colour Lines? Ethnoracially Mixed Youth in Spain Navigating Identity”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (4): 838-860. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1654157

Rodríguez-García, D., Solana-Solana, M., Ortiz-Guitart, A., Freedman, J.L. (2021) “Linguistic Cultural Capital among Descendants of Mixed Couples in Catalonia, Spain: Realities and Inequalities”. In The Boundaries of Mixedness: A Global Perspective, edited by Erica Chito Childs, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 51-72. ISBN: 9780367522926

Álvarez Litben, S. G. (2021) “Cultural sustainability and community water management in coastal Ecuador: jagüeyes or albarradas and small dams or detention ponds.” Sustainability in Debate, 12 (1): 101-132. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v12n1.2021.35516

López-Gay, A.; Sales-Favà, J.; Solana-Solana, M.; Fernández, A.; Peralta, A. (2021) “El avance de la gentrificación en Barcelona y Madrid, 2011-2019: anàlisis socioespacial a partir de un índice de gentrificación”, Estudios Geográficos, 82 (291), doi.org/10.3989/estgeogr.202195.095

Ortiz Guitart, A.; López-Gay, A.; Sales-Favà, J.; Solana Solana, M. (2021) “El proceso de gentrificación desde una mirada de género: un ejemplo en Barcelona”, Ciudad y Territorio. Estudios Territoriales, 53(210): 945-962. doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2021.210.03

Ortiz Guitart, A.; Solana Solana, M. (2021) “Desigualtats socials agreujades per la pandèmia” a La nova geografia de la Catalunya postcovid”, Societat Catalana de Geografia, 67-80.

Rodríguez-Reche, C., Rodríguez-García, D. (2020) “El estigma de la musulmaneidad: visibilidad percibida y racismo en hijas de parejas mixtas con padre/madre de origen magrebí en Barcelona y Granada.” Perifèria, revista de recerca i formació en antropologia, 25 (1): 4-27. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/periferia.723

De Miguel-Luken, V.; Solana-Solana, M. (2020) “Immigrants in the educational system in Spain: who persists?”, Social Indicators Research, 132(2): 733-755. doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1323-4.

Marco-Garcia, C.; López-Gay, A.; Solana-Solana, M. (2020) “Cicles dels barris i dels habitants. La renovació sociodemogràfica a un barri perifèric envellit: el cas de Montbau a Barcelona”, Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, 90: 39-66. doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.2842

Solana Solana, M., Ortiz Guitart, A.; López-Gay, A. (2020) “Me están echando de mi casa. Repercusiones personales y sociales de la inseguridad residencial en Barcelona”. Papers. Revista de Sociología, 106 (1): 139-162. doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.2842

Molina, J.L., Rodríguez-García, D. (2018) “Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Transnationalism.” In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, H. Callan (Ed.). New Jersey, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1924

Rodríguez-García, D., Solana-Solana, M., Ortiz-Guitart, A., Freedman, J.L. (2018) “Linguistic Cultural Capital among Descendants of Mixed Couples in Catalonia, Spain: Realities and Inequalities”, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39 (4): 429-450. DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2018.1487388

Rodríguez-García, D. (2018) “Endo/Exogamia”. In Aguirre Baztán, A. (ed.), Diccionario Temático de Antropología Cultural. Madrid: Delta, pp. 154-160.

Solana-Solana, M., Ortiz-Guitart, A.,Rodríguez-García, D. (2018) “Multilingüisme en famílies mixtes d’origen estranger a Catalunya”, Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, 28: 111-126. DOI: 10.2436/20.2504.01.146

Rodríguez-García, D. (2018) “Multicultural / Multiculturalism”. Dictionary of International Migrations, Observatório das Migrações Internacionais (OBMigra), Brasil.

Ballestín González, B.; Fàbregues, S. (2018) La práctica de la investigación cualitativa en ciencias sociales y de la educación. Barcelona: Editorial UOC. ISBN: 978-84-9180-212-9.

Miguel-Luken, V. de, Solana, M. (2017) “Immigrants in the educational system in Spain: who persists?”. Social Indicators Research, 132 (2): 733-755. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1323-4.

Ballestín González, B. (2017) Infants i joves d’origen immigrant a Catalunya. Un estat de la qüestió socioeducativa. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill. ISBN: 978-84-946592-3-2.

Álvarez Litben, S., Zulaica, L. (2017) “Sustentabilidad y Buen Vivir en la provincia de Santa Elena, Ecuador: aportes para la definición de indicadores compatibles”. Documents d’Analisi Geografica, 63 (1): 205-232

Álvarez Litben, S. (2017) “Territorio comunal en la costa de Ecuador: buscando caminos de entendimiento entre el buen vivir y el principio de bien común”. Revista de Antropología Social (RAS), 26 (2): 355-378.

Ballestín González, B.; González-Motos, S. (2016) “Educació i alumnat d’origen inmigrant: vells i nous reptes per a l’èxit escolar i la cohesió social”. En: Vilalta, J.M. (dir.) Reptes de l’educació a Catalunya. Anuari 2015. Barcelona: Fundació Jaume Bofill. Col·lecció Polítiques, núm. 84, 325-357.

Álvarez Litben, S. (2016) “La importancia de tener nombre: identidad y derechos territoriales para las Comunas de Santa Elena, Ecuador”. Revista de Antropología Experimental, 16 (22): 325-352.

Ortiz-Guitart, A., Rodríguez-García, D., Solana-Solana, M. (2016) Nois/es i joves de parelles mixtes a Catalunya: entre l’elecció i la constricció identitària. Research Report, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Secció de Filosofia i Ciències Socials.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2016) “Advances in the Study of Mixedness: Evaluating the Relationship Between Mixed Unions and Social Integration”. UAB Divulga Journal. Barcelona Research and Innovation. Articles, Research Progress in Anthropology, April 11, 2016.

Rodríguez-García, D., Solana, M., Lubbers, M. (2016) “Preference and Prejudice: Does Intermarriage Erode Negative Ethno-racial Attitudes Between Groups in Spain?”, Ethnicities 16 (4): 521–546 (Special Issue on Intermarriage).

Rodríguez-García, D.(2016) “The Mash of Cultures: Integration and Mixedness”. Interview for Social Science Space(SAGE Publishing) on the special issue guest edited for The ANNALS “Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-disciplinary Approaches”. December 14, 2015. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4444.9048.

Rodríguez-García, D.(Guest Editor) (2015) Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-disciplinary Approaches.The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Special Issue 662.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2015) “Introduction: Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-disciplinary Approaches”. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 662 (1): 8-36.

Rodríguez-García, D., Lubbers, M., Solana, M., Miguel-Luken, V. de (2015) “Contesting the Nexus Between Intermarriage and Integration: Findings from a Multidimensional Study in Spain”, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 662 (1): 223-245.

Miguel Luken, V. de, Lubbers, M.J.; Solana Solana, M.; Rodríguez-García, D. (2015) “Evaluation of the Relational Integration of Immigrants in Mixed Unions Based on an Analysis of their Personal Networks”. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 150: 151-172. doi:10.5477/cis/reis.150.151

Rodríguez-García, D.; Miguel Luken, V. de (2015) “Matrimonis mixtes i fills de la barreja a Catalunya: dels ‘xarnegos’ als ‘cafè amb llet’?” [Mixed Marriages and Mixed-race Children in Catalonia: From ‘charnegos’ to ‘café con leche’?] In: Domingo, A. (Coord.) Migracions dels segles XX i XXI a Catalunya. Una mirada Candeliana, Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Benestar Social i Família, Direcció General per a la Immigració. Col·lecció: Ciutadania i Immigració, 11, Cap. 8, 193-218.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2015) “Realities and legends about ‘intermarriages of convenience’.” Stop Rumores (Andalucía Acoge – European Integration Fund), March 9, 2015.

Ballestín González, B. (2015) De “su cultura es muy fuerte” a “no se adapta a la escuela”: alumnado de origen inmigrante, evaluación y efecto Pigmalión en primaria. RASE, Revista de la Asociación de Sociología de la Educación, 8 (3): 361-379.

Ballestín González, B. (2014) “What (cultural) difference does it make? Children of immigrant background between colour-blind and culturalist ideologies at primary schools in Catalonia”. En: Tervooren, A. et alt. (Eds.) Ethnography and Difference in Educational Fields. International Developments of Educational Research. Nürnberg (Germany), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2014) “Mixophobia as State Policy in Germany during the Nazi Period”. Revista de Demografía Histórica, XXXII (2): 117-146.

Rodríguez García, D.; Solana Solana, M.; Lubbers, M.J.; Miguel Luken, V. de (2014) “Immigration, Intermarriage and Socio-cultural Integration in Catalonia, Spain: Towards a Multi-method Analysis”. Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica, 60 (3): 627-657.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2014) “Contextualizing Transnational Kinship: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations”, AIBR-Journal of Iberoamerican Anthropology, 9(2): 183-210. DOI: 10.11156/aibr.090205

Rodríguez-García, D. (2013) ) “La abominación de lo híbrido: La mixofobia como política de Estado”. Glocalism: Journal of culture, politics and innovation. 2013, 1, DOI: 10.12893/gjcpi.2013.1.2.

Rodríguez-García, D.; Solana Solana, M.; De Miguel Luken, V.; Pascual De Sans, À. (2013) “The Integration of Foreign Immigrants in Catalonia: An Analysis Using Sources Previous to and During the Economic Crisis”. Biblio 3W. Revista Bibliográfica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, XVIII (1040) [Online]

Rodríguez-García, D. (2012) “Considérations théoricométhodologiques autour de la mixité”, Enfances, Familles, Générations, 17: 41-58 (num. spécial “Mixité conjugale et définition de soi: regards croisés”). DOI: 10.7202/1013414ar

Solana Solana, M.; Miguel Luken, V. de, Rodríguez-García, D., Pascual de Sans, A. (2012) “Official language knowledge among foreign-born immigrants in Catalonia, Spain, and implications for their social integration”. Migraciones, 32: 103-128.

Ballestín González, B. (2012) “‘¡Dile al negrito y al cola cao que paren de molestarnos!’. Sociabilidad entre iguales y dinámicas de segregación en la escuela primaria”. En: García Castaño, F. J., y Olmos Alcaraz, A. (eds.) Segregaciones y construcción de la diferencia en la escuela. Madrid: Trotta.

Jarrín Morán, A.; Rodríguez-García, D.; de Lucas, J. (2012) “Immigrant Detention Centres in Spain: A Critical Assessment”. Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, 99: 201-220.

Jarrín Morán, A.; Rodríguez-García, D.; de Lucas, J. (2012) Immigrant Detention Centres in Spain: Origin, Operation, and Legal and Social Implications. Documentos CIDOB Migraciones, 26. Barcelona: CIDOB.

Rodríguez-García, D. (ed.) (2012) Managing Immigration and Diversity in Canada: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the New Age of Migration. Montreal and Kingston: Queen’s Policy Studies Series, McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN: 978-1553392897

Rodríguez-García, D. (2012) “Managing Immigration and Diversity in the New Age of Migration: A Transatlantic Dialogue”. Introduction in: Managing Immigration and Diversity in Canada: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the New Age of Migration. Montreal and Kingston: Queen’s Policy Studies Series, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1-60.

Miguel Luken, V. de, Rodríguez-García, D., Solana Solana, M., Pascual de Sans, A. (2012) The Immigrant Population in Catalonia, Spain: Settlement and Integration. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans. ISBN: 978-84-9965-115-6

Grau Rebollo, J., Rodríguez-García, D., Valenzuela, H. (eds.) (2011) KinshipS: Cultural Models of Reproduction. Barcelona: PPU. ISBN: 978-84-477-1125-3

Rodríguez-García, D. (2011) “Astronaut Parents and Parachute Kids: Patterns of Kinship Among Chinese Populations in Canada. A Transnational Reproductive Model?”, in Grau, J., Rodríguez-García, D. y Valenzuela, H. (eds.), Parentescos: modelos culturales de reproducción, Barcelona: PPU, pp. 261-286.

Miguel Luken, V.; Solana Solana, M. Pascual De Sans, À. (2011) “La trayectoria migratoria internacional de la población inmigrada en España: la incidencia de las redes familiares y otras características sociodemográficas”. Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y ciencias sociales, 357. En línea: http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-357.htm

Ballestín González, B. (2011) “Los niños de la inmigración en la escuela primaria: identidades y dinámicas de des/vinculación escolar entre el ‘colour-blindness’ y los esencialismos culturalistas”. En: Poveda D., Jociles M.I., Franzé, A. (eds.) Etnografías de la infancia: discursos, prácticas y campos de acción. Madrid: La Catarata.

Ballestín González, B.; Roca, C. (2011) “La infància i les famílies procedents de la immigració a Catalunya en xifres: Població, llars i nuclis”. Revista Catalana de Sociologia, 26: 51-72.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2010) “Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: A Critical Review of the Debate on Managing Diversity”. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 11(3): 251-271.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2010) A Transatlantic View of Challenges and Trends in the Management of Immigration and Diversity. Documentos CIDOB Migraciones, 21. Barcelona: Fundación CIDOB.

Ballestín González, B. (2010) “Entre la força del prejudici i l’efecte Pigmalió: “cultures d’origen” i resultats escolars dels fills/es de famílies immigrades”. Quaderns-e de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia, 15 (1): 61-89.

Solana, M. (2010) “Rural Gentrification in Catalonia, Spain? A Case Study of Migration, Social Change and Conflicts in the Empordanet area”. Geoforum: Journal of Physical, Human and regional geosciences, 41(3): 508-517. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.01.005

Ballestín González, B. (2009) “La observación participante en primaria: ¿un juego de niños?”, AIBR-Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 4 (2): 229-244. http://www.aibr.org/antropologia/04v02/articulos/040203.pdf

Rodríguez-García, D. (2008) “Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Intermarriage in Spain: Beyond Simplistic Notions of Hybridity”, in Ralph Grillo (ed.) The Family in Question: Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press – IMISCOE, pp. 245-267.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2007) “Intermarriage Patterns and Socio-ethnic Stratification among Ethnic Groups in Toronto”. CERIS Working Paper Series, No.60. Toronto: Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.

Rodríguez-García, D., San Román, T. (2007) “Immigration, Health and Diversity Management: Preliminary Developments of a Project in Neighborhoods of Catalonia”, AIBR- Journal of Iberoamerican Anthropology, 2(3): 489-520 (published in English and in Spanish). DOI: 10.11156/aibr.020306.

Rodríguez-García, D., Biles, J., Winnemore, L., Michalowski, I. (2007) Policies and Models of Incorporation, a Transatlantic Perspective: Canada, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Documentos CIDOB Migraciones, 12. Barcelona: Fundación CIDOB. (published in Engish and in Spanish).

Rodríguez-García, D. (2006) “Mixed Marriages and Transnational Families in the Intercultural Context: A Case Study of African-Spanish Couples in Catalonia, Spain”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(3): 403-433. DOI: 10.1080/13691830600555186

Rodríguez-García, D. (2006) “Exploring the Meaning of Intermarriage” (with Joanna Freedman). In Love across cultures, The SIETAR Europa Magazine, Issue 2.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2004) “Immigration and Hybridity Today: Mixed Marriages and Transnational Families of Immigrants in Catalonia, Spain”. Migraciones, 16: 77-120.

Rodríguez-García, D. (2004) Immigration and Hybridity Today. Barcelona: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. ISBN: 84-490-2357-2.

SELECTED PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENDES AND SEMINARS (LAST 10 YEARS)

“An approach to the dynamics of mixedness among Roma populations in Spain: interethnic relations and socio-cultural transformations”. Paper accepted to be presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA): Transformation, Hope and the Commons, Belfast, July 26-29, 2022.

“Aproximación a las dinámicas de mixticidad entre la población gitana (Rrom): relaciones interétnicas, aculturación y procesos de inclusión y exclusión social”. Paper accepted to be presented at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR, Salamanca, Spain, July, 12-15 2022.

“Youth of cultural mixed families on “being transnational” in Catalonia, Spain: opportunities and challenges”. Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA): Transformation, Hope and the Commons, Belfast, July 29, 2022.

“Dynamics of mixedness among Roma people in Spain. Decentering migration and ‘race’ in diversity and integration studies in superdiverse Europe”. Paper accepted to be presented at the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference: Migration and Time, Temporalities of Mobility, Governance and Resistance, Oslo, 29 June – 1 July 2022.

“Children of mixed couples’ school trajectories: between invisibility and the risk of educational exclusion” (with Beatriz Ballestín and Miguel Solana). Paper presented at the VII International Conference in Anthropology AIBR, Vila Real, Portugal, June 30, 2021.

“Studying Mixedness: What, Who, How? An Approach to Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology.” (with Teresa Habimana Jordana). Lecture series of the Argó Program, UAB, December 4, 2020.

“Descendants of Muslim/non-Muslim Interfaith Binational Couples in Spain: Identity, Gender, Discrimination, and Agency” (with Cristina Rodríguez Reche). Paper presented at the 1st International Symposium on Muslim non-Muslim Families, Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), Leuven, Belgium, January 10-12, 2020.

“Intermarriage and Integration: Testing Assimilation Theory in Spain.” Paper presented at the 114th ASA Annual Meeting: “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World,” New York, August 10-14, 2019.

“Me siento algo camaleónica”: identidad, sociabilidad y discriminación de hijos e hijas de parejas mixtas inmigrantes.” Paper presented at the V Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR: “Pensar culturas, cambiar mundos,” Madrid, July 9-12, 2019.

“Daughters of Muslim/non-Muslim Interfaith Binational Couples in Spain: Mixedness, Identity and Discrimination” (with Cristina Rodríguez Reche). Paper presented at the International Conference: Identities and (Trans)Nationalisms in Mixed Families: Transmission, Agency and Social Constraints, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. October 17-19, 2018.

“Procesos de mixticidad en descendientes de parejas mixtas inter-religiosas en Cataluña: etnicidad, género y discriminación.” Paper presented at the IV International Conference in Anthropology AIBR, Granada, September 5, 2018.

“Ethnic Choices and Social Constraints: Multiracial Youth Negotiating Identity in Spain.” Paper presented at the 113th ASA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 12, 2018.

“Multiracial and Multiethnic Youth Negotiating Identity in Spain: Mixedness, Choices and Constraints.” Invited Harney Lecture, Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, June 18, 2018. https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/event/25649/ Special event report available at: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/feature/june-25-2018-harney-lecture-report/

“Mixedness and Social Integration in Spain.” Invited Seminar, Migration Seminar Series, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden, May 3, 2018.

“’I do not believe in God, but my mother does not accept that’: Experiences of Daughters of Mixed Interreligious Couples in Catalonia.” Research Conference of the Interuniversity Institute for Women and Gender Studies: Gender, Citizenship and Politics. Debates and Social Transformations, Barcelona, November 22-24, 2017 (with Teresa Habimana, Anna Ortiz, and Miguel Solana).

“Mixed Youth Negotiating Identity in Spain.” Paper presented at the International Metropolis Conference 2017: Migration and Global Justice, The Hague, September 20, 2017.

“Jóvenes de parejas mixtas en Cataluña: Entre la elección y la constricción identitaria.” Invited lecture at Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), Social Sciences Section, Barcelona, September 29, 2016.

“Constrained identities: Identity Processes of Children of Mixed Unions in Catalonia.” Paper presented at the II International Congress of Anthropology AIBR. Identity: Bridges, Thresholds and Walls, Barcelona, September 6-9, 2016.

“Global Mobility and Familial and Intimate Relationships,” IMISCOE Research Cluster Meeting. Dir. Eleonore Kofman & Albert Kraler. Middlesex University, London, 16-17 November 2015.

“Youth Descendants of Mixed Families in Catalonia: Intercultural Daily Practices.” Paper presented at the Jornadas ‘Pasado, presente y futuro de los estudios de juventud,’, Valencia, October 1-2, 2015.

“Attitudes towards Mixedness and Identity Processes of Mixed-Parentage Youth in Catalonia: Between Choice and Constriction”. Paper accepted for the I Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR, Madrid, July 7-10, 2015.

“Contesting the Link between Intermarriage and Integration: Results from a Multi-Method Approach in Spain.” Paper accepted for the 12th Annual IMISCOE Conference: Rights, Democracy and Migration – Challenges and Opportunities, Geneva, June 25-27, 2015.

“Mixed Marriages and Mixed-race Children in Catalonia: From ‘charnegos’ to ‘café con leche’?” Invited presentation at the Conference Migracions del segle XX i XXI a Catalunya. Una mirada Candeliana, organized by the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics, Fundació Paco Candel and Departament de Benestar Social i Família de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Museu d’Història de Catalunya, Barcelona, December 17, 2014.

“Limits, Constraints, and Transgressions around Mixed Unions in Catalonia.” Paper presented at the XIII Congreso de Antropología de la FAAEE: Periferias, fronteras y diálogos, Simposio: Etnografiando los márgenes y las periferias sexo-amorosas, Tarragona, Spain, September 2-5, 2014.

“Relationships with Spaniards in the Personal Networks of Immigrants in Endogamous and Exogamous Couples: The Extent of Relational Integration.” Paper presented at the 1st European Social Networks Conference (EUSN), Barcelona, Spain, July 1-4, 2014.

“Contrastando la relación entre uniones mixtas e integración social: un análisis multi-método.” Paper presented at the seminar Who Marries Whom? Past and Present, Barcelona, Spain, January 16-17, 2014.

“Immigration and New Mixedness in Catalonia and Spain.” Invited presentation at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, November 14, 2013.

“Testing the Relationship between Intermarriage and Socio-cultural Integration in Catalonia, Spain: A Multi-method Analysis.” Invited presentation at the Séminaire de l’Unité Migrations Internationales et Minorités, Institut National d’Êtudes Démographiques (INED), Paris, France, November 12, 2013.

“Measuring the Integration of Immigrants Who Are in Mixed Unions: Findings from the Analysis of Personal Networks.” Paper presented at the 11th Spanish Congress of Sociology. Madrid, Spain, July 10-12, 2013.

“Inter-ethnic Partnering and Integration: A Comparison of the Personal Networks of Immigrants in Mixed-Nationality and Same-Nationality Couples in Catalonia, Spain” (with Miranda Lubbers). Paper presented at the 33rd Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Hamburg, Germany, May 21-26, 2013.

“Immigration, Mixed Unions, and Social Integration: Towards a Multi-method Complex Analysis.” Paper presented at the 6th International Catalan Congress of Sociology, University of Perpignan Via Domítia, Perpignan, France, April 25-27, 2013.

“Immigrant Settlement and Integration in Spain: An Analysis of the Case of Catalonia Using the New National Survey of Immigration.” Paper presented at the 15th Metropolis Conference: Justice and Migration: Paradoxes of Belonging in the workshop “Comparative Perspectives on Settlement and Integration: The European Union and Canada,” The Hague, Netherlands, October 5, 2010.

SELECTED CONFERENCES: Organization of Panels and Conferences and Scientific Committee Participation

Scientific Committee IX Congreso sobre Migraciones. UAB, Barcelona, 4-6 September 2019.

Double Research Panel Organizer and Chair (together with N. Irastorza, and S. Osanami Törngren), “(Re-)constructing ways of belonging: Cross-country experiences of multiethnic and multiracial people”. 15th IMISCOE Annual Conference: “Europe, migrations and the Mediterranean: human mobilities and intercultural challenges”, Barcelona, July 2-4, 2018.

Scientific Committee 15th IMISCOE Annual Conference: Europe, migrations and the Mediterranean: human mobilities and intercultural challenges. Barcelona, July 2-4, 2018.

Chair of Session 8: “Theorizing Mixedness”, International Conference: Power, Intimacy and the State. Mixed Families in Europe and Beyond. University of Amsterdam, June 12-13, 2017.

Scientific Committee & Co-Chair and Co-Discussant (together with Miri Song) of Session 6: “Transnational partnering,” International Conference: New Research Challenges on Intermarriage and Mixedness in Europe and Beyond. Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, November 12-13, 2015.

Session Organizer (together with Miguel Solana), “Mixed unions and their descendants in Spain: state of the art, theoretical and methodological considerations around mixedness, and future agenda” (Las uniones mixtas y sus descendientes en España: estado de la cuestión, reflexiones teórico-metodológicas en torno a la mixticidad, y agenda de futuro), 8^thCongress on International Migration in Spain. Granada, September 16-18, 2015.

Double Research Panel Organizer and Chair, “Intermarriage, Mixedness, Integration and Social Cohesion Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-disciplinary Approaches.” 11^thAnnual IMISCOE Conference: Immigration, Social Cohesion and Social Innovation. Madrid, August 27-29, 2014.

Scientific Committee, “International Conference: Transatlantic Anthropology in the 21^stCentury: New Perspectives.” Co-organized by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. UAB, Spain, October 21-22, 2011.

Scientific Committee, “International Conference: The Economic Crisis and Small Businesses in Catalonia, Spain.” Autonomous University of Barcelona, June 14, 2011.

Founder and Director, International Conference: Managing Immigration and Diversity in Quebec and Canada Forum. Funded by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Embassy in Spain, the Québec Government Office in Barcelona, the Spanish Ministry of Immigration, and the Catalan General Directorate for Immigration. Palau Robert, Barcelona, October 22-23, 2008.

Workshop Organizer, “Fitting In: Contextualizing Plural Identities,” 9^thInternational Metropolis Conference: ‘Co-operative Migration Management: International, National, and Local Answers,’ Geneva, Switzerland, September 27-October 1, 2004.

MEDIA PARTICIPATION — KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Production of the documentary “MIXED VOICES / VOCES MIXTAS”, 2021. Dir. Dan Rodríguez Gracía, Editor Victor Navarro, Produced by INMIX-UAB.

“La inmigración es ya protagonista en una de cada 10 parejas.” Featured research story in the newspaper Diario de Burgos, April 3, 2021. https://www.diariodeburgos.es/Noticia/Z8139E865-93BB-315C-723D5104BBA80BF3/202103/La-inmigracion-es-ya-protagonista-en-una-de-cada-10-parejas

“What changes can the coronavirus crisis cause in human relations?”. Interviewed for the Catalan televisión (TV3) news, April 26, 2020. Video extract: https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies/despres-del-confinament-canviaran-els-nostres-habits-mes-basics/video/6040526/ Full Video-interview: https://youtu.be/1FemlQ-nPdA. Full interview transcript in Spanish: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340950094_The_effects_of_Covid19_on_sociocultural_relations_-_TV_news

“June 18, 2018 Harney Lecture Explores Multiethnic Reality in Spain.” Special event report by Shannon Clarke for The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. June 28, 2018.

“Mixed families: the stigma persists.” Interviewed by the the Spanish national newspaper La Vanguardia on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families. Barcelona, April 17, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1957.4641

“Lleida has 20,000 marriages in which one of its members is a foreigner.” Interviewed by the Catalan newspaper Segreon the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Lleida, April 16, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3006.0404

“Mixed families, with Dan Rodríguez García.” Interviewed by Radio Nadional de España, Radio 5 (The National Radio of Spain) on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Madrid, March 30 (Segunda hora, audio from min. 4), 2016.

“A study concludes that mixed couples do not always mean greater social integration.” Interview for the Radio news program BTV News on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Barcelona, March 29, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1367.6400

“Mixed unions between immigrants and natives do not equate to social integration.” Interviewed by the Catalan newspaper Catalunya Vanguardista on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Barcelona, March 20, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3333.7206

“A study warns about the difficulties of couples formed between natives and immigrants.” Interviewed by the Spanish national newspaper La Vanguardia on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Barcelona, March 29, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3726.9361

“Marrying a Spaniard does not equal integration.” Interviewed by the newspaper ABC (Cataluña) on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Barcelona, March 30, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2154.0726

“Mixed families are not always equal to social integration.” Interviewed by the Newsroom, Press, and Media of the Autonomous University of Barcelona on the final results of pioneering research on intermarriage, mixed families, and integration. Bellaterra, March 29, 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3989.0800

Interviewed as an expert speaker on intermarriage and multicultural families on the International Day of Families 2013, for the program Entrevista de actualidad, broadcast by Radio Nacional de España, Radio 5 (The National Radio of Spain), Madrid, May 15, 2013.

Interviewed by the Catalan newspaper Ara for the article “Children of Two Cultures,” November 3, pp. 4-5, 2012.

Participated as an expert speaker on intermarriage for the debate program “Intercultural Couples: Problems, Prejudices, and Everyday Life,” El Mirall, broadcast by Catalunya Radio (The National Radio of Catalonia), Barcelona, October 23, 2012.

Interviewed as an expert speaker on the topic “The Brain Drain As a Negative Impact of Catalan Emigration,” for the news program L’Observatori, broadcast by La Xarxa (Municipal Radios’ Network), Barcelona, October 15, 2012.

Participated as an expert speaker on migration on the television program “To Emigrate or To Stay” Banda Ampla, broadcast by TV3, the National Television of Catalonia, Barcelona, September 29, 2011.

Wrote editorial article published in the Spanish national newspaper La Vanguardia: “Vic, Salt, Immigration and Fear,”March 24, 2010.

Interviewed for a feature story by the Journal Wanafrica, #34, pp. 15-16, December 2008.

Interviewed by CBC Radio Canada – Radio Canada International on “Immigration in Spain and the Canadian Experience,” November 28, 2008.

Interviewed for a feature story by Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper The Toronto Star, “A Love Match? That’s So Last Century: New Research into Inter-ethnic Unions,” Weekend edition, March 15, Ideas section, pp. 1-3. Authored letter of clarification to the Editor, March 27, 2008.

Interviewed by the magazine Psychologies for the article “Living Between Two Religions,” #30, pp. 69-71, July 6, 2007.

Interviewed by the national newspaper La Vanguardia for the article “The New Couples: 11% of New Marriages Are Mixed,” p. 36, June 17, 2007.

Interviewed by the national newspaper El Correo Digital for the article “A Stranger in the Family,” pp. 36-38, June 6, 2006.

Interviewed by the national newspaper El Periodico for the article “New Families on the Rise: Immigrants Marry More Often with Spaniards Than with Co-nationals,” pp. 24-25, February 27, 2006.

Participated as an expert speaker on “The Canadian Immigration Model: A Comparison Between Canada and Spain” for the debate program l’Agenda, broadcast by Radio 4 (Spain’s national public radio broadcaster), Barcelona, November 22, 2005.

Interviewed by the nationally distributed newspaper Diario Vasco, “Dan Rodríguez-García, Anthropologist Specialising in Migration,” November 10, 2005.

Participated as an expert speaker on “Immigration: The Labour Force and Citizenship” on the current events television program Contrapunt, broadcast by Barcelona Television (BTV), Barcelona, May 23, 2005.

Participated as an expert speaker for the COMRàdio radio debate program Catalunya Plural on the subject of “Canons of Beauty and Interaction at Intimate Levels in the World,” Barcelona, April 4, 2005.