Alpha Martell-Gamez is a doctoral candidate in International Migration Studies and Citizenship at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She received her B.Sc. in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research based on field work in Mexico and the United States, particularly analyses Mexican Immigrant Labour-Market and Transnational Social Networks in Southern California and Yucatan. Her research interests include international migration, transnationalism, labour market, and the impact of control policies on migration behaviour.
She was a COMPAS Visiting Academic March-October 2010.