Research Affiliate
Mariña Fernández-Reino (PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) is a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the Spanish Research Council (Madrid, Spain). Between 2018 and 2024, she was a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and the Migration Observatory. She was the Principal Investigator of a research project investigating migrants’ lived experiences of the UK immigration system. She also leads two work packages within the EqualStrength project (‘Cumulative discrimination and prejudice against marginalised groups in Europe’), funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Throughout her academic career, she has investigated a variety of research topics related to migration and ethnic inequalities, including the discrimination of Latinos and Muslim minorities, public opinion towards migration, educational inequalities in Spain and the UK, relationships in migrant families, the selectivity of migration inflows, and the labour market integration of migrant workers. She has published in high-impact journals such as the European Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Oxford Review of Economic Policy, among others. While working at the Migration Observatory, she authored over twenty briefings and reports on migrants’ integration, immigration policy, and public attitudes towards migration.
Link to her CV and her publications on Google Scholar
