Blanca Garcés is a Senior Research Fellow in the area of migration and Research Coordinator at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). PhD cum laude in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and BA in History and Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Dutch Sociological Association (NSV) prize for the best sociological dissertation defended in the Netherlands in 2009 and 2010. Blanca has worked on immigration policies in Malaysia and Spain, the policymaking of integration policies from a multilevel perspective, political discourses on immigration and on irregular immigration from a comparative perspective. Between 2010 and 2016 she was Juan de la Cierva postdoc researcher and visiting professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Blanca is lecturer at the Political Science Department of Barcelona University and member of the European network IMISCOE. Together with Rinus Penninx, she has recently published a book about the concept and policies of integration in Europe (Springer, 2016). She is now working on policies and political discourses on refugees from a European comparative perspective.
Eduard Soler i Lecha, investigador sénior, CIDOB (coordinated and edited)
Blanca Garcés Mascareñas, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB
Francesc Fàbregues y Oriol Farrés, gestores de proyectos, CIDOB (coord.)
Carme Colomina, investigadora, CIDOB (coord.)
Blanca Garcés Mascareñas and Gracia María Moreno Amador
Eduard Soler i Lecha, Senior Research Fellow and MENARA Project Scientific Coordinator
The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (NIEM), Measuring and improving integration of beneficiaries of international protection is a six-years long transnational project which aims to prepare key actors in the integration field in 15 EU Member States to better face the current challenges and improve the integration outcomes of beneficiaries of international protection. Conflict situations tend to last longer and it takes currently on average 17 years, before refugees fleeing civil wars may eventually have a chance to return to their home country. Hence, the long-term integration of newly arrived beneficiaries of international protection is without alternative and presents an immediate challenge for European societies.
The project carries out a comprehensive evaluation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in terms of its framework and practice. It analyses the harmonisation which goes beyond the formal institutional setting and takes into account the complex relations among the actors engaged from the local and the national levels, to the European level, in order to explain the success and the failure of coordinated action between these varied actors.
El proyecto quiere crear un espacio de diálogo y reflexión entre les diferentes actores implicados en la gestión de la llamada "crisis de los refugiados" en la Unión Europea.
The project has a threefold objective: 1) to generate data on the housing conditions of asylum seekers and refugees in Catalonia; 2) to understand those factors that facilitate or hinder their access to housing; and 3) to provide guidelines for the formulation of specific policies and programs in this area.
This project studies the past, present and future of differentiated integration models in the European Union’s governance with the aim of facilitating policy-making, problem solving and policy implementation in the EU.
ADMIGOV aims to promote an alternative migration governance model studying the reality of existing polices and practices on the ground.
What is Going on in the World?”: What is Going on at the EU Borders?
- 12/2016
Ciudades refugio en el contexto europeo: ¿hacia un enfoque más inclusivo?
- 05/2017
Atentados de Barcelona y Cambrils: reacciones, explicaciones y debates pendientes
- 02/2018
Research objectives for WP5 – Patterns of politicisation of refugees and policy responses
- 03/2018
La representación de las mujeres en los conflictos internacionales.
- 06/2018
Ciclo “¿Qué pasa en el mundo?” África: la huida hacia Europa
of Ciclo “¿Qué pasa en el mundo?” África: la huida hacia Europa - 04/2019
Countering or Preventing Violent Extremism?
- 05/2019
El Ciberleviatán y el colapso de la civilización
of CIDOB - 06/2019
