Jéssica Nájera

Professor-researcher at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies of El Colegio de México, since 2015; BA in Economics, MA in Demography and PhD in Population Studies. Member of the sni and research networks on migration, family and work, and support groups for migrants. Her research focuses on the links between migration and work from a sociodemographic perspective, with quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She develops particular topics such as cross-border mobilities and migrations between Mexico and Guatemala; international migrations in Latin America, particularly in the Mesoamerican region; migratory flows and integration of migrants in Mexico; family, work and gender. She was responsible for the Survey on Migration in the Southern Border of Mexico (Emif Sur) from 2005 to 2008; and since 2019 she is a member of the Project on Mexican/Mesoamerican Migration (mmp) and Latin America (lamp-enir), projects of El Colegio de México and Brown University.