Miranda Lubbers is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. She directs the COALESCE Lab, which is part of a consolidated group recognized by the Catalan Government. Her research addresses migration and transnationalism, poverty and livelihood strategies, and social cohesion. In these areas, she analyzes in particular the role that formal and informal social relationships and settings have in the production, mitigation...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    University, Barcelona, Spain
    Associate Professor

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

    Other, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

    University, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
    Full Professor

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

    University, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
    Associate Professor, tenured (Profesora Agregada)

  • Autonomous University of Barcelona

    University, Barcelona, Spain
    Associate Professor (Profesora Agregada Interina)

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Other, Bellaterra, Spain
    Investigadora Ramón y Cajal

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Other, Barcelona (Bellaterra), Spain
    Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher

  • Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Other, Tarragona, Spain
    Lecturer (Profesora Asociada)

  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

    Other, Groningen, Netherlands
    Postdoctoral researcher (NWO grant)

Research

Automated Name Selection for the Network Scale-up Method

Authors Adrià Fenoy, Michał Bojanowski, Miranda J. Lubbers
Year 2024
Journal Name Field Methods
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1 Journal Article

Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’: the role of transnational structures

Authors Ignacio Fradejas-Garcia, Ignacio Fradejas-García, José Luis Molina, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Globalizations
Citations (WoS) 4
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2 Journal Article

Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Organizational Ethnography
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3 Journal Article

Short Take: Sampling from Transnational Social Fields

Authors Jose Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, Marian-Gabriel Hancean, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name FIELD METHODS
Citations (WoS) 3
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4 Journal Article

(Im)Mobilities and Informality as Livelihood Strategies in Transnational Social Fields

Authors Ignacio Fradejas-García, José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers
Year 2022
Book Title Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness
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5 Book Chapter

“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda J. Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina
Year 2021
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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6 Journal Article

In Good Company? Personal Relationships, Network Embeddedness, and Social Inclusion

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers
Year 2021
Journal Name Social Inclusion
Citations (WoS) 3
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7 Journal Article

Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields: Personal Networks, International (Im)Mobilities, and the Migratory Capital Paradox

Authors Renata Hosnedlova, Ignacio Fradejas-Garcia, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Social Inclusion
Citations (WoS) 3
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8 Journal Article

Measuring transnational social fields through binational link-tracing sampling

Authors Marian-Gabriel Hâncean, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, José Luis Molina
Year 2021
Journal Name PLOS ONE
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9 Journal Article

The networked character of migration and transnationalism

Authors Başak Bilecen, Miranda J. Lubbers
Year 2021
Journal Name Global Networks
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10 Journal Article

How do migrants’ processes of social embedding unfold over time?

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Molina, Christopher Mccarty
Year 2020
Journal Name Global Networks
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11 Journal Article

Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Mario Luis Small, Hugo Valenzuela García
Year 2020
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
12 Journal Article

Relationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela García, Paula Escribano Castaño, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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13 Journal Article

«Él es emprendedor, pero yo no; yo soy autónomo»: Autorrepresentación y subsistencia de los neocampesinos en Cataluña

Authors Paula Escribano, Agata Hummel, José Luis Molina, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name AIBR, Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana
14 Journal Article

The embeddedness of social capital in personal networks

Authors José Luis Molina, Alejandro García-Macías, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Network Science
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15 Journal Article

A typology of ecological intentional communities: Environmental sustainability through subsistence and material reproduction

Authors Paula Escribano, Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Molina
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Cleaner Production
16 Journal Article

When networks speak volumes: Variation in the size of broader acquaintanceship networks

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Molina, Hugo Valenzuela-García
Year 2019
Journal Name Social Networks
17 Journal Article

Charities as symbolic families: ethnographic evidence from Spain

Authors Jorge Grau Rebollo, Paula Escribano Castaño, Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Organizational Ethnography
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18 Journal Article

Charities under austerity: ethnographies of poverty and marginality in Western non-profit and charity associations

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, James Gordon Rice
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Organizational Ethnography
19 Journal Article

Social Networks and Transnational Social Fields: A Review of Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches

Authors Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Ashton M. Verdery, José Luis Molina
Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration Review
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20 Journal Article

Social Networks and Knowledge Transmission Strategies among Baka Children, Southeastern Cameroon

Authors Sandrine Gallois, Miranda J. Lubbers, Barry Hewlett, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name Human Nature
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21 Journal Article

Industrial districts and migrant enclaves: a model of interaction

Authors José Luis Molina, Luis Martínez-Cháfer, Francesc Xavier Molina-Morales, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name European Planning Studies
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22 Journal Article

“The Cowl Does Make The Monk”: Understanding the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship in Times of Downturn

Authors José Luis Molina, Hugo Valenzuela-García, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
23 Journal Article

Off the Methodological Records: Sample Selection, Institutional Access, and Ambivalent Audit/Ethical Issues When Investigating Vulnerable People

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-García, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, José Luis Molina
Year 2018
24 Book

The missing link: Social network analysis in migration and transnationalism

Authors Başak Bilecen, Markus Gamper, Miranda J. Lubbers
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Networks
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25 Journal Article

A personal network approach to the study of immigrant structural assimilation and transnationalism

Authors Raffaele Vacca, Giacomo Solano, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Networks
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27 Journal Article

The dual role of friendship and antipathy relations in the marginalization of overweight children in their peer networks: The TRAILS Study

Authors Jan Kornelis Dijkstra, Ronald P. Stolk, Loes van Rijsewijk
Year 2017
Journal Name PLOS ONE
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28 Journal Article

Cooperation and competition in social anthropology

Authors J.L. Molina, M.J. Lubbers, H. Valenzuela-García, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Anthropology Today
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29 Journal Article

Preference and prejudice: Does intermarriage erode negative ethno-racial attitudes between groups in Spain?

Authors Dan Rodríguez-García, Miguel Solana-Solana, Miranda J Lubbers
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 5
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30 Journal Article

Recent Advancements, Developments and Applications of Personal Network Analysis

Authors Marian-Gabriel Hâncean, José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers
Year 2016
Journal Name International Review of Social Research
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31 Journal Article

Contesting the Nexus between Intermarriage and Integration: Findings from a Multi-dimensional Study in Spain

Authors Dan Rodriguez-Garcia, Miranda J. Lubbers, Miguel Solana, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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32 Journal Article

Evaluation of the Relational Integration of Immigrants in Mixed Unions Based on an Analysis of Their Personal Networks

Authors Veronica de Miguel Luken, Miranda J. Lubbers, Miguel Solana Solana, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas
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33 Journal Article

Funds of Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Higher Education

Authors Filipa M. Ribeiro, Miranda Lubbers
Year 2015
Book Title New Voices in Higher Education Research and Scholarship
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34 Book Chapter

On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality: Clashing Interests in the Ethnic Enclave of Lloret de Mar

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-García, José Molina, Miranda Lubbers, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Societies
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36 Journal Article

The reconstruction of personal networks among immigrants: A longitudinal description

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina
Year 2013
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37 Journal Article

El proceso de reconstrucción de la red personal de los inmigrantes: una descripción longitudinal

Authors Miranda Lubbers, José Luis Molina
Year 2013
Journal Name Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales
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38 Journal Article

Life Behind the Lobby. Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream

Authors Miranda Lubbers
Year 2013
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
39 Journal Article

Bulgarian Migrants in Spain: Social Networks, Patterns of Transnationality, Community Dynamics and Cultural Change in Catalonia (Northeastern Spain)

Authors Sílvia Gómez Mestres, Jose Luis Molina, Sarah Hoeksma, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Southeastern Europe
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40 Journal Article

Dynamics of Peer Relationships Across the First Two Years of Junior High as a Function of Gender and Changes in Classroom Composition

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Tom A. B. Snijders, Margaretha P. C. Van Der Werf
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Research on Adolescence
41 Journal Article

Personality as a moderator of context effects on academic achievement

Authors A.A. Jolijn Hendriks, Hans Kuyper, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of School Psychology
42 Journal Article

Migration and Networks

Year 2011
Journal Name Encyclopedia of Social Networks
43 Journal Article

Personal Network Analysis

Year 2011
Journal Name Encyclopedia of Social Networks
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44 Journal Article

Colaboración en ciencia-tecnología entre España/Unión Europea y América Latina. Tendencias en biotecnología, ciencia de los alimentos y nanomateriales

Authors José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Briansó, ...
Year 2010
Journal Name Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales
45 Journal Article

Recognizing modes of acculturation in personal networks of migrants

Year 2010
Journal Name Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
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46 Journal Article

Longitudinal analysis of personal networks. The case of Argentinean migrants in Spain

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Molina, Jürgen Lerner, ...
Year 2010
Journal Name Social Networks
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47 Journal Article

The relationship between affective response to social comparison and academic performance in high school

Authors Maike J.P.W. Wehrens, Abraham P. Buunk, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2010
Journal Name Contemporary Educational Psychology
48 Journal Article

Does homework behavior mediate the relation between personality and academic performance?

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Margaretha P.C. Van Der Werf, Hans Kuyper, ...
Year 2010
Journal Name Learning and Individual Differences
49 Journal Article

Social comparison with friends versus non‐friends

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Hans Kuyper, Margaretha P. C. van der Werf
Year 2009
Journal Name European Journal of Social Psychology
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50 Journal Article

Visual Statistics for Collections of Clustered Graphs

Authors Ulrik Brandes, Jurgen Lerner, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2008
Journal Name 2008 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium
51 Journal Article

Personal Networks and Ethnic Identifications

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, José Luis Molina, Christopher McCarty
Year 2007
Journal Name International Sociology
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52 Journal Article

How the interpretation of social comparison affects academic performance among high school students

Authors Maike Wehrens, Bram Buunk, Miranda Lubbers, ...
Year 2007
53 Data Set

A comparison of various approaches to the exponential random graph model: A reanalysis of 102 student networks in school classes

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Tom A.B. Snijders
Year 2007
Journal Name Social Networks
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54 Journal Article

Predicting Peer Acceptance in Dutch Youth

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Margaretha P. C. Van Der Werf, Hans Kuyper, ...
Year 2006
Journal Name The Journal of Early Adolescence
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55 Journal Article

The impact of peer relations on academic progress in junior high

Authors Miranda J. Lubbers, Margaretha P.C. Van Der Werf, Tom A.B. Snijders, ...
Year 2006
Journal Name Journal of School Psychology
56 Journal Article

Group composition and network structure in school classes: a multilevel application of the p∗ model

Authors Miranda J Lubbers
Year 2003
Journal Name Social Networks
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57 Journal Article

Quality and Opportunities in Secondary Education: Implementation and Effects of the Common Core Curriculum

Authors Greetje P. C. van der Werf, Hennie P. Brandsma, Lidwien M. C. M. Cremers-van Wees, ...
Year 1999
Book Title Enhancing Educational Excellence, Equity and Efficiency
58 Book Chapter

Belonging here and there: How social media affect the transnational lives of Spaniards in Iceland

Authors Sigrún K Valsdóttir, Miranda J Lubbers
Year 2023
Journal Name New Media & Society
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59 Journal Article

Labour Mobility and Informality: Romanian Migrants in Spain and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Croatia

Authors Abel Polese, Ignacio Fradejas-García, Ružica Šimić Banović, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Politics and Governance
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60 Journal Article

The Relational Vulnerability of People Experiencing Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) in Spain

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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61 Journal Article

Ethnographies of the coronavirus pandemic: Empirical emergency and social resignification

Authors Ignacio Fradejas-García, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Andrea García-Santesmases, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Perifèria. Revista d'investigació i formació en Antropologia
62 Journal Article

Emprendimiento Social. Autoempleo y extracción del valor en la era post-crisis

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-García, José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Revista de Antropología Social
63 Journal Article

Mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs in microstates. The case of Andorra

Authors Judith Pampalona, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, José Luis Molina
Year 2019
Journal Name Perifèria. Revista d'investigació i formació en Antropologia
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64 Journal Article

Someone To Talk To

Authors José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers
Year 2018
Journal Name Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales
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65 Journal Article

Efectos de la estructura de las redes personales en la red sociocéntrica de una cohorte de estudiantes en transición de la enseñanza secundaria a la universidad

Authors Daniel Holgado, Isidro Maya Jariego, Miranda J. Lubbers
Year 2018
Journal Name Universitas Psychologica
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66 Journal Article

Becoming Part of an Eco-Community: Social and Environmental Activism or Livelihood Strategy?

Authors Paula Escribano, Miranda Lubbers, José Molina
Year 2017
Journal Name Social Sciences
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67 Journal Article

Empresas sociales en Cataluña: ¿Cambio de paradigma o estrategia de clase media?

Authors Hugo Valenzuela García, José Luis Molina González, Marta Lobato, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Otra Economía
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68 Journal Article

Las redes sociales de la economía social

Authors Paula Escribano, Marta M. Lobato, José Luís Molina, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Perifèria. Revista d'investigació i formació en Antropologia
69 Journal Article

Immigració, unions mixtes i integració sociocultural: cap a una anàlisi complexa multimètode

Authors Dan Rodríguez García, Miguel Solana Solana, Miranda J. Lubbers, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica
70 Journal Article

Social Capital Companion: Capturing Personal Networks as They are Lived.

Authors Juergen Lerner, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, José Luis Molina González, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Grafo Working Papers
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71 Journal Article

The  Geographical  Distribution  of  the  Personal  Networks  of  People   Living  in  Catalonia:  a  dual  society

Authors José Luis Molina, Carlos Lozares, Miranda J. Lubbers
Year 2012
Journal Name Grafo Working Papers
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72 Journal Article

The psychometric properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-estimated network size

Authors Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Michał Bojanowski, Nuria Targarona Rifa, ...
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73 Journal Article

Automated Name Selection for the Network Scale-Up Method

Authors Adrià Fenoy, Michał Bojanowski, Miranda Jessica Lubbers
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74 Journal Article

Looking Inside the Ethnic Enclave: Inequality, Social Capital and Transnationalism

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-Garía, José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, ...
Book Title Migrant Capital
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75 Book Chapter

The relational toll of political involvement in polarized times: relationship decay within activists’ personal networks

Authors Alejandro Ciordia, Nuria Targarona Rifa, Miranda Jessica Lubbers
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76 Journal Article

Social Network Data Collection: Principles and Modalities

Authors jimi adams, Miranda J. Lubbers
Journal Name SSRN Electronic Journal
78 Journal Article

Looking Inside the Ethnic Enclave

Authors Hugo Valenzuela-García, José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, ...
Book Title Migrant Capital
79 Book Chapter

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