Temas de investigación
Matrimonio Migraciones de retorno Análisis de redes sociales Relaciones de parentesco y de amistad Homogamia Migración internacional Familia
Contacto
amparo.gonzalez@cchs.csic.es
amparo.gonzalez@upf.edu
Curriculum Vitae (Spanish version)
Amparo Gonzalez is a Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-IEGD). Until 2008 she was also Assistant Professor at the Political and Social Sciences Department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Her dissertation, titled “Family and Labor Strategies in Migration. Family reunification, partner choice and labor participation of migrants in the host country”, was awarded with the Spanish Socio-Economic Council prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in 2006. Her interests lie, especially, in the areas of social demography, international migration, integration and immigration policies. She has participated in the FP6 EU Project LOCALMULTIDEM and the FP6 EU Project PROMINSTAT, and is currently involved in and FP7 Project MAFE. Two of her most recent publications in English are: “Sampling international migrants with origin-based snowballing method. New evidence on biases and limitations" (with Cris Beauchemin), Demographic Research (2011); “Explaining the labour performance of immigrant women in Spain: the interplay between family, migration and legal trajectories", International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2011).
GONZÁLEZ-FERRER, A. (2011) 'The electoral participation of naturalised immigrants in ten European cities', in Laura Morales and Marco Giugni (Eds.). Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? Basingstoke: Palgrave.
In this chapter we contribute to the debate on the voting behaviour of the population of immigrant origin by utilising the data collected by the Localmultidem survey in ten European Cities: Barcelona,... +leer mas