Giorguli Saucedo, Silvia Elena

Correo electrónico: sgiorguli@colmex.mx
Teléfono: +(52) 55 5449 3000
Extensión: 3001

Área de especialización: Área de Demografía y Estudios de Población

Línea de especialización: Trabajo y movilidad territorial

Líneas de investigación: Dinámica demográfica y educación -- Transiciones a la adultez -- Migración internacional: mercados de trabajo, impactos de la migración en las comunidades de origen, migración y familia

Profile

Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo Sociologist and demographer, she has been president of El Colegio de México since 2015. She studied a B.A. in Sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Master in Demography at El Colegio de México. In 2004 she earned her PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She has been Professor and Researcher at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) of El Colegio de México since 2003. She was Director of CEDUA (2009-2015). She was also Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Univeristy (2007-2008). In her demographic research, she has concentrated in three main research lines: (i) international migration in the Americas; (ii) transitions to adulthood in Mexico and Latin America; (iii) the intersection between demographic dynamics, education and public policies. Most of her publications concentrate in these three areas. Among her recent publications:

Zuñiga V. and S. Giorguli. (expected year of publication: 2023). Children Moving from the United States to Mexico: The 0.5 Generation. University of California Press [version in Spanish published by El Colegio de México, 2019]

Giorguli S. and A. Bautista (coordinators). 2022. Derechos fragmentados. Acceso a derechos sociales y migración de retorno a México. El Colegio de México, México.

She was president of the Mexican Demographic Society (2011-2012) and she founded and directed the journal Coyuntura Demográfica. Revista sobre los procesos Demográficos en México hoy (2011-2014). She has also participated as part of the Councils for the Population Policy and Migration Policies in Mexico, and with UNFPA, UNICEF, UN-Women and ECLAC in diverse initiatives linked to the discussion on demographic trends and public policies.

She has also participated as member of the Scientific Academic Committee of IIASA, member of the Academic Committee of the Blavatnik School of Government Oxford University and co-chair of the North and Central America Task Force on Migration. She is currently principal investigator on the Mesoamerican Migration Project (El Colegio de México and Brown University) and on the Recent Immigration Survey in Latin American Cities (IDB-LAMP), a collaboration among El Colegio de México, the Inter-American Development Bank, Brown University and Universidad de la República in Uruguay. She is Founder and Director of the review Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México.

She is member of the National Research System in Mexico, level II. She is a fomer Fulbright-García Robles Fellow and she received the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM in 1993 and the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University in 2018.