Claudia Masferrer

Claudia Masferrer has been a Professor at the Center for Demographic, Urban, and Environment Studies at El Colegio de México (Colmex) since January 2016. She coordinates the seminar Migration, Inequality, and Public Policy at the college. In 2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société in Montreal, Canada.

Her research centers on the intersection of migration, immigrant integration, inequality, and family dynamics, and how public policies shape these issues. Her projects seek to understand North America as a region of emigration, immigration, transit, and return. She has studied the changing nature of return migration and reintegration of returnees for more than a decade. Her research has been published in Demography, Population Research and Policy Review, Advances in Life Course Research, Coyuntura Demográfica, as policy briefs, and as chapters in edited books.

Dr. Masferrer received her doctorate in sociology from McGill University, her master’s in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, and her BA in applied mathematics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Before her graduate studies, she served as Deputy Director of Methodologies for Measuring Poverty in the National Council for Evaluating Social Development Policy and as an Analyst in the Ministry of Social Development.