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BIO
Javier Polavieja (Oxford University PhD in Sociology, 2001) is Research Professor and Director of the D-Lab at the Institute of Public Goods & Policies, Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), as well as elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology. His main fields of research are social stratification, political sociology and migration research. His work has been published in leading international journals including, amongst others, the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces, International Migration Review, Labour Economics, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, Social Indicators Research, and International Migration, as well as in the leading Spanish academic journals in the social sciences.