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 |
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Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
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Qualitative research
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El Colegio de México AC
University, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Associate Professor
Research
Understanding Regularization, Temporary, and Permanent Residence in Mexico Using Administrative Data
| Authors | Johana Navarrete-Suárez, Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2026 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Implications of Complex Migrant Trajectories, Itineraries, and Legal Pathways in the Americas: Lessons from Fieldwork in Mexico
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer, Johana Navarrete-Suárez |
| Year | 2026 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data
| Authors | Tania Varona, Claudia Masferrer, Victoria Prieto Rosas, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |
Visitor Visa Policy Changes and Mexico-Canada Migration
| Authors | Ian Van Haren, Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2024 |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer, Claudia Masferrer, Luicy Pedroza, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
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 |
Introduction: Towards a New Migration and Asylum Research Agenda for the Americas
| Authors | Craig Damian Smith, Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2023 |
Concurrent Displacements: Return, Waiting for Asylum, and Internal Displacement in Northern Mexico
| Authors | Isabel Gil-Everaert, Claudia Masferrer, Oscar Rodríguez Chávez |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal on Migration and Human Security |
Considerations for a New Research Agenda on Migration and Refugee Studies: Lessons from Studying Migration and Foreign Policies in Mexico
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer, Luicy Pedroza, Ana Covarrubias, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
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 |
Economic Integration of Afro–Latin American Immigrants in Mexico
| Authors | Johana Navarrete-Suárez, Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Population Research and Policy Review |
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 |
Returning to a New Mexican Labor Market? Regional Variation in the Economic Incorporation of Return Migrants from the U.S. to Mexico
| Authors | Nicole Denier, Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Population Research and Policy Review |
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, Nicole Denier |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | DEMOGRAPHY | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mexicans on the Move: Migration and Return in Rural Mexico
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2017 |
Does family matter for recent immigrants' life satisfaction?
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2016 |
Does family matter for recent immigrants' life satisfaction?
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Advances in Life Course Research |
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 |
Suggested Research
Future Changes in Age Structure and Different Migration Scenarios
| Authors | Claudia Masferrer, Víctor M. García-Guerrero, Silvia E. Giorguli-Saucedo |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Revista Latinoamericana de Población |