SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (2010- )
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
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
Solana, M.; Ortiz Guitart, A. & López Gay, A. (2021) “Me están echando de mi casa”. Repercusiones personales y sociales de la inseguridad residencial en Barcelona”, Papers. Revista de Sociologia, 106 (1): 139-162.
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. ISBN: 9780367522926.
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.
Navarro-Izquierdo, V. (2020) Bonaire’s talen (Los idiomas de Bonaire). Ethnographic documentary, 31 min. Master in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology: Visual Ethnography, Leiden University.
Rodríguez-Reche, C. (2019) “La alteridad domesticada. La política de integración de inmigrantes en España: actores y territorios”. Reseña, Documents d`Anàlisi Geogràfica, 65 (2): 433-435.
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.
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. Depósito legal: B 2541-2018.
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. (2017) “Multicultural / Multiculturalismo”. In: Cavalcanti, L. et al. (Org.) Dicionário crítico de migraçoes internacionais. Brasilia: Observatorio de Migraçoes Internacionais (OBMigra), Universidad de Brasilia, pp. 502-508. ISBN: 978-85-230-1211-3
Ballestín, 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.
Miguel-Luken, V. de; Solana, M. (2017) “Immigrants in the educational system in Spain: who persists?”, Social Indicators Research, 132 (2): 733-755.
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.
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. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18187.13601
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. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/150377
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.
Solana, M. (coord.) et al. (2016). Espacios globales y lugares próximos. Setenta conceptos para entender la organización territorial del capitalismo global, Barcelona: Icaria, Colección Antrazyt, 336 págs. ISBN: 978-84-9888-703-7.
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”. In: Vilalta, J.M. (dir.) Reptes de l’educació a Catalunya. Anuari 2015. Barcelona, Fundació Jaume Bofill. Col·lecció Polítiques, núm. 84. Pgs 325-357.
Navarro-Izquierdo, V. (2016) “La historia de cómo el islandés se convirtió en idioma oficial en 2011”, El Faro de Reykjavík.
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. https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/caplli/2015/168429/recerca_immigracioVII_a2015p193.pdf
Rodríguez-García, D. (2015) “Realities and legends about ‘intermarriages of convenience’.” Stop Rumores (Andalucía Acoge – European Integration Fund), March 9, 2015.
Ballestín, 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.
Rodríguez-Reche, C., García del Moral, L.,Garrido Salcedo, A. (2015) “La evaluación por los estudiantes”. In Szmolka Vida I., Santos Guerra M.A. (Eds). Reflexionar sobre la evaluación. Experiencias en la facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la Universidad de Granada, pp. 279-283. Granada: EUG. ISBN: 978-84-338-5780-4.
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.; Solana Solana, M.; Lubbers, M.J.; Miguel Luken, V. de (2014) “Límites, condicionamientos y transgresiones, en torno a la mixicidad: análisis de narrativas de uniones mixtas en Cataluña”. Periferias, fronteras y diálogos. Actas del XIII Congreso de Antropología de la FAAEE: Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, ISBN: 978-84-697-0505-6, pp. 827-843. http://digital.publicacionsurv.cat/index.php/purv/catalog/book/123
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
Ballestin, B. (2014) “What (cultural) difference does it make? Children of immigrant background between colour-blind and culturalist ideologies at primary schools in Catalonia”. In Tervooren, A. et alt. (Eds.) Ethnography and Difference in Educational Fields. International Developments of Educational Research. Nürnberg (Germany), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Aliaga, N., Girona, M., Habimana, T., & Pastó, J. (2014) “Antropología con ojos freelance: Entrevista a William A. Christian”. Perifèria. Revista d’investigació i formació en Antropologia, 19(1): 108-121.
Rodríguez-García, D. (2013) “The Abomination of Hybridity: Mixophobia as State Policy”. 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.
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
Ballestín, 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.
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. de; 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
Ballestín, 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”. In Poveda D., Jociles M.I., Franzé, A. (eds.) Etnografías de la infancia: discursos, prácticas y campos de acción. Madrid, La Catarata.
Ballestín, 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, junio-julio 2011.
Carrasco, S.; Pàmies, J.; Ponferrada, M.; Ballestín, B.; Bertran, M. (2011) “Segregación escolar e inmigración en Cataluña: aproximaciones etnográficas”. In F. J. García Castaño & S. Carrasco (eds.) Población inmigrante y escuela. Conocimientos y saberes de investigación. Textos reunidos en homenaje a Eduardo Terrén Lalana. Colección Estudios Creade N.º 5. Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, pgs. 367-400.
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.
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.
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.
SELECTED CONFERENCES
Organization of Panels and Conferences and Scientific Committee Participation
“Training seminar on forced migration, refugees / asylum and LGBTI+ diversity”. Organized by the INMIX-UAB, Fundación ACATHI and Fundació Autònoma Solidària. UAB, Barcelona. March 10, 2022. https://twitter.com/AntropologiaUAB/status/1500038671076106242
III Doctoral Conference on Religions and Spirituality: Agency, Subjectivity and Social Networks: The Role of Religions in Troubled Times. Co-organized by INMIX-UAB. November 25-26, 2021.
First GRITIM-UPF / INMIX-UAB Collaborative Research Seminar. Online, April 24, 2021.
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), 8thCongress 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.” 11thAnnual IMISCOE Conference: Immigration, Social Cohesion and Social Innovation. Madrid, August 27-29, 2014.
Scientific Committee, “International Conference: Transatlantic Anthropology in the 21st Century: 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,” 9th International Metropolis Conference: ‘Co-operative Migration Management: International, National, and Local Answers,’ Geneva, Switzerland, September 27-October 1, 2004.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“The daily Bordering of Mixedness: Intersectional Positionalities of Afro-descendant Women in Catalonia Through their Relief Maps.” (with Teresa Habimana) Paper accepted to be presented at the XVI Congreso Nacional de Antropología (ASAEE), A Coruña, September 6-8, 2023.
“Mixed Voices / Voces Mixtas”. Audiovisual documentary accepted to be presented at the Muestra Audiovisual XVI Congreso Nacional de Antropología (ASAEE), A A Coruña, September 6-8, 2023.
“Mixedness and Difference at School: Between Invisibility and the Stigma of Foreignness in the School Trajectories of Children of Mixed Couples in Catalonia.” (with Beatriz Ballestín) Paper accepted to be presented at the XVI Congreso Nacional de Antropología (ASAEE), A Coruña, September 6-8, 2023.
“Conjugal ethnic preference and socio-educational mobility of the Roma population in Spain” (With A. Beremenyi & B. Ballestín). Paper accepted to be presented at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR, Mexico, August 8-11, 2023.
“Voces Mixtas: visibilizando la mixticidad a través del audiovisual”. Audiovisual documentary accepted to be presented at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR, Mexico, August 8-11, 2023.
“Immigration and Mixedness: The Spanish Case”. Invited Seminar, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED), UAB, June 29, 2023.
“An approach to the dynamics of mixedness among Roma populations in Spain: interethnic relations and socio-cultural transformations”. Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA):Transformation, Hope and the Commons, Belfast, July 28, 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.
“Aproximación a las dinámicas de mixticidad entre la población gitana (Rrom): relaciones interétnicas, aculturación y procesos de inclusión y exclusión social”. Paper presented at the VIII Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR, Salamanca, Spain, July 14, 2022.
“Dynamics of mixedness among Roma people in Spain. Decentering migration and ‘race’ in diversity and integration studies in superdiverse Europe”. Paper presented at the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference: Migration and Time, Temporalities of Mobility, Governance and Resistance, Oslo, June 29, 2022.
“Migration, Diversity and Mixedness”. Invited lecture at the GRITIM-UPF Research Seminar. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, May 5, 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”. Paper presented at the International Symposium “Muslim Non-Muslim Families”, Center 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 theV 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.” 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”. Paperpresented 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. 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, 22-24 November 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, 20 September, 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, 6 to 9 September 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, 1-2 October, 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, 7-10 July, 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 25-27 June, 2015.
“Mixed Marriages and Mixed-race Children in Catalonia: From ‘charnegos’to ‘café con leche’?”.Invited conference presented at the ConferenceMigracions 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, 17 December, 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, 2-5 September, 2014.
“Relationships with Spaniards in the personal networks of immigrants in endogamous and exogamous couples”: The extent of relational integration. Paper presented at the 1stEuropean Social Networks Conference(EUSN), Barcelona, Spain, 1-4 July, 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, 16-17 January, 2014.
“Immigration and New Mixedness in Catalonia and Spain.” Invited conference presented at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. Paris, France, 14 November, 2013.
“Testing the Relationship between Intermarriage and Socio-cultural Integration in Catalonia, Spain: A Multi-method Analysis.” Invited conference presented at the Séminaire de l’Unité Migrations Internationales et Minorités, Institut National d’Êtudes Démographiques (INED). Paris, France, 12 November, 2013.
“Measuring the Integration of Immigrants Who Are in Mixed Unions: Findings from the Analysis of Personal Networks.” Paper presented at the 11thSpanish 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.” Paper presented at the 33rdSunbelt 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 6thInternational 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 15thMetropolis Conference: Justice and Migration: Paradoxes of Belonging, workshop: “Comparative Perspectives on Settlement and Integration: The European Union and Canada,” The Hague, Netherlands, October 5, 2010.
“Current Trends and Challenges of Immigration and Transnationalism in Europe and China in the Context of Globalisation. Featured speaker, 2ndChina-Europe Forum: China and Europe Facing the Challenge of Migrations. CIDOB, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Barcelona, Spain, October 4, 2007.
“Relativizing Segregation in Multicultural Contexts: The Case of Toronto, Canada, from a Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented at the 11thInternational Congress of the Spanish Association of Canadian Studies: Identities in the Make: Migration and Cultural Change in the Twenty-first Century. Madrid, Spain, November 18, 2006.
“Reception Models and Integration Policies.” Invited opening presentation for the International Seminar on Reception Models and Integration Policies; and Chair of Panel 1 (“Reception Models and Integration Policies”) and of Panel 2 (“The Role of Local and Regional Actors in Reception and Integration Policies”). CIDOB, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. Barcelona, Spain, October 19, 2006.
“Socio-ethnic and Institutional Factors in Patterns of Marriage in Toronto, Canada: Contesting the Horizontal Mosaic.” Paper presented at the 101stAnnual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada, August 11, 2006.
“Marriage Patterns and Discourses of Segregation and Assimilation Among Ethnic Groups: The Case of Chinese Ethnic Communities in Toronto, Canada.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association. Montreal, Canada, August 10, 2006.
“Living Hybridity: Socio-cultural Change and Maintenance Among African-Spanish Families in Catalonia, Spain.” Paper presented at the IMISCOE Cluster B6 Workshop on Debating Cultural Difference in Europe: The Family. University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, April 8, 2006.
“From Emigration to Immigration: Changing Trends in International Migration in Europe and the Case of Spain.” Invited Public Seminar, CERIS-Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement. Toronto, Canada, January 27, 2005.
“Comparing Hybridities: Migration, Intermarriage, Youth, and Multicultural/Hybrid Identities in Spain and Canada.” Paper presented at the 9thInternational Metropolis Conference: “Co-operative Migration Management.”Geneva, Switzerland, September 29, 2004.
“Diversity and Conflict in the Political Agency among Senegambian Immigrants in Catalonia, Spain”. Paper presented at the VII Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists(EASA): Engaging the World, Workshop: “Anthropological Perspectives on Political Engagements in 21stCentury Europe”. Copenhagen (Denmark), August 14-18, 2002.
“Hybridity and Inter-ethnic Marriages: The Case of African Immigrants in Catalonia.” Paper presented at the 2ndNational Conference on Immigration, Hybridity, and Coexistence. Instituto de Estudios Ceutíes, Ceuta, Spain, June 17, 2002.
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER – PARTICIPATION IN THE MEDIA
Production of the documentary “MIXED VOICES / VOCES MIXTAS”, 2022. Dir. Dan Rodríguez Gracía: https://youtu.be/RYHKCaERcFs
“María, the explanation for mixedness in Spain created with artificial intelligence. Four out of every ten births are to a foreign father or mother. This is how the future of a Spanish girl changes depending on the country of origin of her parents”. Featured research story in the newspaper ABC Sociedad, November 21, 2022. https://www.abc.es/sociedad/espana-pais-mestizo-cuatro-diez-nacimientos-padres-20221121085635-nt.html
“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 Segre on 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.