Masferrer, Claudia
Correo electrónico: cmasferrer@colmex.mx
Teléfono: +(52) 55 5449 3000
Extensión: 3096
Área de especialización: Área de Demografía y Estudios de Población
Línea de especialización: Trabajo y movilidad territorial
Líneas de investigación: Migración interna e internacional -- Procesos de integración de migrantes -- Migración de retorno -- Relaciones étnico-raciales -- Dinámica familiar -- Política pública y desigualdades
Profile
Claudia Masferrer is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies, Coordinator of the Seminar Migration, Inequality, and Public Policies, and Member of the Research Group on Demographic Dynamics at El Colegio de México. Claudia holds a PhD in Sociology from McGill University, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the Institituo Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She is a member of the National Researchers System (SNI-Nivel 2) and PRODEP (Perfil Deseable). Her research focuses on internal and international migration, reintegration of returnees, immigrant integration, demographic dynamics, inequality, and how policy mediates these processes. She has studied return migration to Mexico and its implications for more than a decade. Her scholarship has been published at academic journals (Demography, Population and Development Review, Demographic Research, Journal of Migration and Human Security, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Advances in Life Course Research, Population Research and Policy Review, Revista Latinoamericana de Población, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research among others), as policy briefs, and as book chapters in edited volumes. She is the coauthor of the book The Returned. Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City (Russel Sage Foundation, 2025), author of Atlas of Return Migration of the United States to Mexico (2021), coeditor of La década en que cambió la migración. Enfoque binacional del bienestar de los migrantes mexicanos en Estados Unidos y México (2021), editor of Migración y desigualdades ante la pandemia COVID-19 en México y Estados Unidos (2021), coeditor of The intersection of foreign policy and migration policy in Mexico Today (2022), and coeditor of Migration Between Mexico and the United States: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, 2022). Since 2023, she is an Associate Editor of International Migration Review. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Demography, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, and Canadian Studies in Population. She is the Coordinator of the Americas research hub for the project “Complex Migration Flows and Multiple Drivers in Comparative Perspective” (MEMO), a member of the International Advisory Council of the Metropolis International Migration Network, Coordinator of the Red de Movilidad of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Población, and active member of various professional associations. She has supervised and been the mentor of more than 20 individuals (undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers) with whom she enjoys working together and collaborating. Her research has received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Open Society Foundations, Fondo Sectorial SEDESOL-CONACYT, UCMEXUS-CONACYT, Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center, and SSHRC.