Autonomous University of Barcelona - Centre on Education, Migration and Childhood - Spain
The Education, Migration, Infancia [Childhood], Group, Research, Anthropology (EMIGRA) was created in 2004 and has been the first producer of anthropology dissertations focusing on educational inequalities and public policies since then in Spain, specializing in migrant and minority groups that are overrepresented in underachievement and ESL figures. Its members belong either to the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology or to the Department of Systematic and Social Pedagogy, and all belong to the Centre for Studies and Research in Migrations (CER-M), that gathers multidisciplinary research groups with expertise on migration flows, minorities, racism and xenophobia, citizenship issues, impacts of public policies, media analysis, education and ethnographic research and evaluation. Members of CER-M have coordinated and participated in several international research projects (Migcities Network, FP6 Wellchi Network, FP6 TRESEGY; FP6 INCLUD-ED), several Spanish Ministry of Science projects (since 2002), regional competitive and commissioned projects, an ongoing Open Society Institute project, and the last international project funded by NSF (US)– Nuffield Foundation (UK) The children of immigrants in schools in the EU and the US: US, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, The Netherlands.
The EMIGRA website exists in Spanish, in Catalan, and in English. Email contact: gr.emigra@uab.cat
Relevant publications
J. PÀMIES (2009) “Inclusive education: open debates and the road ahead”. Prospects: quarterly review of comparative education; XXXIX(39), 3 / 151. p. 227-238.
J. PÀMIES (with Ferrer. F.); (with Gibson, M. A, Alba, R. and others) (2012). Different systems, similar results. Immigrant students in Catalonia and California. NY Univ. Press.
J. PÀMIES (with Carrasco, & Bertrán) (2012) ‘School segregation and Education in Catalonia: an ethnographic approach’, in Garcia Castaño, ed. Studies in Education and Migration in Spain, Madrid: CIDE.
S.CARRASCO (Ed.) (2012) Immigration and the national politics of schooling: comparative ethnographies in California and Catalonia. Amsterdam: Peter Lang Publ.
S.CARRASCO (with Margaret Gibson) (2009). ‘The education of immigrant youth: some lessons from the US and Spain’. Theory Into Practice, Vol 28 (4), pp 249-257.
S.CARRASCO. (with Abajo, J. E., eds) (2004) Experiencias y trayectorias de gitanas/os en España. Madrid: CIDE.
Á.BEREMÉNYI. (2011). ‘Intercultural policies and teachers’ contradictory views. The Roma case in Catalonian schools’. Intercultural Education Journal. Vol. 23/1
Á.BEREMÉNYI. (2011) “Equal schooling opportunities for Spanish Gitano students? Obstacles and possible solutions” In: S.M. Deirmencioglu (ed) Some still more equal than others? Or equal opportunities for all. Brussels: Council of Europe Publishing.
M.BERTRÀN (2010) “Representations of Parenting Practices of Native and Immigrant Families in Institutional Care Service Settings in Barcelona” in (eds) A Haukanes, H.; Thelen, T.: Parenting after the century of the child. London: Ashgate.