Blanca Garcés is a Senior Research Fellow in the area of Migrations 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. For more than 15 years she has studied immigration and asylum policies from a comparative perspective. In her book Markets, citizenship and rights (2012), she analysed to what extent different political contexts (Spain and Malaysia) lead to different immigration policies. In the book Integration, processes and policies in Europe (2014), written together with Rinus Penninx, she proposes a heuristic model to study integration processes and policies. In the last five years she has studied policies and political discourses on asylum in Europe, with a special attention to border policies and state reception systems. Since 2021, she coordinates a H2020 project to understand the causes and consequences of migration narratives in a context of increasing politicisation and polarisation in Europe. She is member of the european network IMISCOE and of the editorial college of the recently created Migration Politics Journal.
Neus Arnal, educadora social i investigadora i Blanca Garcés Mascareñas, investigadora sènior, CIDOB
Joaquín Arango, Blanca Garcés, Ramón Mahía and David Moya (dir.)
Olatz Ribera-Almandoz, investigadora associada, CIDOB, Albert Sales Campos, investigador, IERMB i Blanca Garcés Mascareñas, investigadora sènior, CIDOB
Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, investigadora sénior, CIDOB and Berta Güell, investigadora, CIDOB
Berta Güell and Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas
Eduard Soler i Lecha, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB (coordinated and edited)
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.
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.
The main objective of BRIDGES is to understand the causes and consequences of migration narratives in a context of increasing politicization and polarization
In recent years, the EU has received an unprecedented number of migrants and asylum seekers, often in a disordered way. This has led to a growing presence of immigrants in small and medium-sized cities and rural areas
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
Un mundo en movimiento
- 06/2020
Migraciones en tiempos de Covid-19
of CIDOB - 12/2020
Ceuta: entre la crisis migratoria y la diplomática
of CIDOB - 05/2021
Bridging the gaps in the study of migration narratives
of BRIDGES Project - 07/2021
