Biography
José Ignacio Carrasco (PhD, Pompeu Fabra University - UPF) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, where he works on the project MORE (Motivations, Experiences and Consequences of Returns and Readmissions Policy: Revealing and Developing Effective Alternatives) projects. He is involved in the package for analysing the political and economic motivations, media discourses and approaches to Returns and Readmissions (RR) Policy. Ignacio is the convener for the option course Migration in Latin America, part of the MSc in Migration Studies.
Based in Barcelona before moving to Oxford, Ignacio conducted his PhD research at UPF. For this, he used various quantitative methods and social simulation to work on three interconnected areas of migration research: labour market integration of Intraregional migrants, the dynamics of remittance behaviour, and the underpinning mechanisms of emigration rates.
He worked at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) between 2010 and 2018 and at the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Practice Group between 2021 and 2023. In this work, he co-authored various reports on migration, social development, and malnutrition issues.
In addition to his PhD, Ignacio holds a Master of Science in Demography from Stockholm University, a Master in Migration Management from Pompeu Fabra University, and a degree in Sociology from the University of Chile. He is an affiliate at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research (MPIDR) Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being.
You can find his publications on ORCID and Google Scholar.
