Claudia Masferrer is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies, Coordinator of the Seminar Migration, Inequality and Public Policies, Academic Coordinator of the PhD in Population Studies, and Member of the Research Group on Demographic Dynamics at El Colegio de México. Claudia holds a PhD in Sociology from McGill University and an MSc in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on internal and international migration, reintegration of returnees, immigrant integration, demographic dynamics, inequality, and how policy mediates these processes. She has studied return migration to Mexico and its implications for more than a decade. She is the coauthor of the book The Returned. Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City (Russel Sage Foundation, 2025), the author of Atlas of Return Migration of the United States to Mexico (Colmex, 2021), and coeditor of Migration Between Mexico and the United States: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, 2022), among other books and numerous journal articles. Claudia has contributed to policy discussions on migration and has collaborated with international migration research networks. Since 2026, Claudia Masferrer is a Vicepresident of the International Panel on Migration. She is an Associate Editor of International Migration Review (IMR) and a member of the Mexican National Researchers System (SNII-Level 2). She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies and Canadian Studies in Population, and has served in the Editorial Boards of Demography and Population Research and Policy Review. She is the Coordinator of the Americas research hub for the project “Complex Migration Flows and Multiple Drivers in Comparative Perspective” (MEMO), a member of the International Advisory Council of the Metropolis International Migration Network, Coordinator of the Red de Movilidad of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Población, and an active member of various professional associations. She has supervised and been the mentor of more than 20 individuals (undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers), with whom she enjoys working together and collaborating. Her research has received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Open Society Foundations, Fondo Sectorial SEDESOL-CONACYT, UCMEXUS-CONACYT, Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center, and SSHRC.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6556
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0902-7723
X/Twitter https://x.com/cmasfl

Roles

  • El Colegio de México AC

    University, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
    Associate Professor

Research

Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration

Authors Ian Van Haren, Claudia Masferrer
Year 2024
Citations (WoS) 3
4 Journal Article

Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas

Authors Craig Damian Smith, Craig Damian Smith, Claudia Masferrer, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
6 Journal Article

U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico

Authors Erin R. Hamilton, Claudia Masferrer, Paola Langer
Year 2022
Journal Name Population and Development Review
10 Journal Article

Economic Integration of Afro–Latin American Immigrants in Mexico

Authors Johana Navarrete-Suárez, Claudia Masferrer
Year 2022
Journal Name Population Research and Policy Review
11 Journal Article

Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration

Authors Ian Van Haren, Claudia Masferrer
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 3
12 Journal Article

Does family matter for recent immigrants' life satisfaction?

Authors Claudia Masferrer
Year 2016
Journal Name Advances in Life Course Research
17 Journal Article

Going Back Home? Changing Demography and Geography of Mexican Return Migration

Authors Claudia Masferrer, Bryan R. Roberts
Year 2012
Journal Name Population Research and Policy Review
Citations (WoS) 26
18 Journal Article

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