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Sofia Gaspar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sofia Gaspar (PhD in Sociology) is Senior Researcher at CIES-Iscte, Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. She has coordinated several projects on bi-national couples, transnational families and Chinese immigrants, and she has vastly published on this field. Her publications include the co-edition of the books The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories (2021, Brill) and Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in Search of Work, Refuge and Belonging (Sussex Academic Press, 2015), and also papers in peer-review journals (International Migration; Population, Space and Place; Journal of Chinese Overseas, and Portuguese Journal of Social Science). She is co-coordinating the Thematic Section Migrations, Ethnicity and Racism of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS), and she is co-organizing the workshops Meetings on Chinese Studies and Seminar of Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Families, both at Cies-Iscte. She is also member of several international networks: CHERN – China in Europe Research Network (COST Action), CERPE – China Europe Platform on Migration, PRIMOB – Privileged Mobilities: Local Impacts, Belonging and Citizenship (IMISCOE), DIVCULT – Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (IMISCOE) and Lifestyle Migration Hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since January 2023, she is the local coordinator of the Iscte Team of the project AspirE, “Decision making of aspiring (re)migrants to\/within the EU: The case of labour market-leading migrations from Asia”, on the scope of HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01). Her current research activity is focused on the privileged migrations, investment mobilities, social integration of immigrants’ descendants, particularly on the Chinese community in Portugal and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Source: https:\/\/aspire.ulb.be\/team\/research-team\/sofia-gaspar<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sofia Gaspar Sofia Gaspar (PhD in Sociology) is Senior Researcher at CIES-Iscte, Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. She has coordinated several projects on bi-national couples, transnational families and Chinese immigrants, and she has vastly published on this field. Her publications include the co-edition of the books The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/migracioneschinas\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}