I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation, which is part of the larger project Theorising Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration (TRiMM). My case study focuses on Senegalese migration to Spain, involving fieldwork in Spain and Senegal.
María Hernández-Carretero left PRIO in 2014. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation, which is part of the larger project Theorising Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration (TRiMM). My case study focuses on Senegalese migration to Spain, involving fieldwork in Spain and Senegal.
Other research areas (past and present) include:
Education:
2008: MPhil in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies.
University of Tromsø, Norway.
2006: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociocultural Anthropology and International Development Studies (Joint Honours).
McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
2002: International Baccalaureate (IB).
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Working experience:
2009 - present: Researcher, PRIO
2008 - 2009: Research Assistant, PRIO.
2008 and 2009: Assistant Coordinator for the Peace Research course at the International Summer School (ISS) of the University of Oslo.
June-December 2006: Research Assistant at the International Center for Migration and Health (ICMH), Geneva, Switzerland.
Languages:
Spanish (mother tongue), English, French, Norwegian, Wolof (conversational).
Book chapter in Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
PhD thesis
Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
European Policy Brief
Journal article in Human Organization
Conference paper
Journal article in British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Conference paper
PRIO Policy Brief
Conference paper
Today, Friday 29 January, Maria Hernandez-Carretero has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Oslo: Leaving to belong: migration, transnational connectedness and social becoming.
What images of Europe lie behind the wish to migrate? And who are the people who prefer to remain in their own country? A new policy brief, Who wants to go to Europe? (PRIO Policy Brief 04/2013) was launched at a breakfast seminar at PRIO today.
FIWON is a network at PRIO that aims to develop and promote competence on fieldwork-based research.
PRIO's new project Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration (TRiMM) is presented on the Research Council's web site in connection with the programme for funding independent projects (FRIPRO).
The doctoral research fellowship that was announced by PRIO in March has been offerd to María Hernández Carretero, who has accepted the position.