Camelia Tigau

Camelia Tigau is a full researcher at the Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Prof. Tigau teaches migration and international studies at the same university, at a graduate and undergraduate level. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (2007) and a Masters in Communication (2004) from UNAM. She also studied journalism and communication at the University of Bucharest and the Schools of Journalism in Utrecht (Holland) and Aarhus ...See more

Camelia Tigau is a full researcher at the Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Prof. Tigau teaches migration and international studies at the same university, at a graduate and undergraduate level. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (2007) and a Masters in Communication (2004) from UNAM. She also studied journalism and communication at the University of Bucharest and the Schools of Journalism in Utrecht (Holland) and Aarhus (Denmark). She served as the Coordinator of the Area of Integration Studies of the CISAN (2020-2022). In 2022, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for outstanding women scientists at UNAM. Camelia Tigau is a regional vice-president Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (GRFDT, India). She was a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, (Global Migration Lab), Rice University (The Baker Institute for Public Policy) and the University of York, Canada. At present, she coordinates the collective research project ]Diaspora Communication and Diplomacy. Perspectives From the Receiving contexts in the Americas, Europe and Asia], funded by the General Department of Academic Personnel (DGAPA, UNAM). She has published in the journals Migration and Development , Migration Letters , Education Policy Analysis Archives , Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Place Branding and Public Diplomacy and Norteamérica , among others. Her last authored book is called Discriminación y privilegios de la migración calificada: el caso de los profesionistas mexicanos en Texas (Discrimination and privileges of skilled migration: the case of Mexican professionals in Texas), 2020, CISAN - UNAM. She also co-edited the volume Trump's Legacy in Migration Policy and Postpandemic Challenges for Biden with Mónica Verea, CISAN/UNAM, 2022. See less