This is an open access website named Migration Research Gallery (Galeria de Recerca sobre Migracions GRM ) and focused on human migration studies. GRM was set up in year 2002 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB) within the framework of the Migration Research Group (Grup de Recerca sobre Migracions) that then was directed by Prof Àngels Pascual de Sans. As research gallery, GRM was set up by A Prof Ricard Morén-Alegret with funding from the Ramon y Cajal Research Programme (Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology). See additional updates linked to GRM on X Twitter @RicardMoren
Since 2017, GRM and the researchers linked to it are organised as migration research program of ECONECOL, a Funded and Consolidated Research Group of the SGR2017-2021 & SGR2021-2025 Programme, supported by AGAUR, the Catalan Government’s Agency for Research and Universities. Thus GRM has become one of the 5 research programs of that group. ECONECOL is coordinated by Dr Giorgos Kallis and includes professors and researchers linked to UAB-ICTA and the Department of Geography, among other institutions. This Migration Research Gallery (GRM) and the aforementioned research programme on migration are coordinated by Dr Ricard Morén-Alegret.
From October 2014 to 2017 this GRM website offered content related to activities, among others, from the migration research programme of the renovated Interfase consolidated research group (SGR, 2014-2017), UAB Geography Department. During that period, the Interfase group was coordinated by Dr Françoise Breton, until her retirement from UAB.
GRM is mainly based at the Geography Department and the Philosophy and Arts Faculty of UAB. The UAB Department of Geography was set up in the 1970s. According to the 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is among the best 100 universities in the world in Geography, see: https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2022/geography
In addition, this GRM website also offers contents related to the already historical Migration Research Group – Grup de Recerca sobre Migracions, GRM -, which was also based at the Geography Department and the Philosophy and Arts Faculty of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB. Grup de Recerca sobre Migracions, GRM, was awarded as Consolidated and Funded Research Group by AGAUR (Catalan Government) for the period 2009-2014 with Ricard Morén-Alegret as Coordinator (SGR2009-728). During this period GRM increased, internationalised and diversified the research outcomes production. Previously, during the period 2005-2008, Dr Àngels Pascual de Sans was coordinator of the group, and from 2009 to her official retirement in September 2013 she was Emeritus Professor. Since the 1960s, Àngels Pascual has been an appreciated scholar devoted to migration research in Spain.
Along the years, GRM has carried out interdisciplinary research on migration and settlement with a special reference to Catalonia, the Iberian peninsula, Europe and the Mediterranean. Its members have taken part in several international and national research projects and have collaborated with a range of institutions at local, national and international level.
The activities indicated below are just some visual examples, but please see other sections of this website for more details.
NETWORK OF MIGRATION STUDIES
GRM participated in the Spanish-scale Network of Migration Studies / Red de Estudios Migratorios, REsMi. This was one of the 2016 Networks of Excellence in Social Sciences funded by MINECO, Government of Spain (2017-2019). This network was directed by Francisco Javier García Castaño (Universidad de Granada) and incorporated a dozen researchers from a variety of social sciences. These researchers were linked to universities and other research institutions placed in the following regions: Andalusia, Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid and Valencia. At UAB, A. Domingo (CED), S. Carrasco (CERM) and R. Morén-Alegret (GRM) were the researchers participating in REsMi.
Among other outputs, REsMi helped to set up the Documentation Centre for Migration Studies at Granada University, see: https://cdem.info/centro-de-documentacion/
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCT PARTICIPATED BY GRM (2012):
“IF I WERE THE MAYOR OF MY NEIGHBOURHOOD“
This international multimedia product approaches life in neighbourhoods of five cities belonging to a variety of European countries: Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, UK. This audio-visual output was developed within the framework of the Concordia Discors project, which was funded by DG-V of the European Commission and coordinated by Ferruccio Pastore & Irene Ponzo (FIERI, Italy). Among other organisations, GRM-GEO-UAB contributed to this multimedia initiative, including contributions of Albert Mas, Dawid Wladyka and Ricard Morén-Alegret.
See: http://www.concordiadiscors.eu/multimedia/
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO PRODUCED by GRM (2009):
“IBERIANA”
Immigrants’ Integration Processes
in Five Small Towns Placed in Peninsular Spain
Duration: 38 minutes (+ 5′ extra minutes)
Brief description: The popular science documentary video “Iberiana” has been produced in 2009 from GRM (Department of Geography, UAB) as an outcome of the R+D project “Foreign Immigration, Sense of Place and Territorial Identity in Five Small Towns in Spain”, funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. “Iberiana” shows some general features of the making process of a social science research project, it presents some recent geographical dynamics in territories located in five Spanish provinces (Alicante, Cáceres, Girona, Huelva, and León), and, furthermore, it puts some light on five cases of successful immigrants’ integration explained by migrants themselves. Thus this documentary gives voice to persons living in so-called peripheral areas and, as a popular science video, it is devoted to both students and public interested in immigration and integration dynamics.
Keywords: Geography, International Immigration, Integration, Small Towns, Spain
Watch this VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC9DNDHlY0
Download details of this DVD:
Front page – Credits – Back page – DVD label