Sara Carrasco Granger completed her bachelors degree in Policy Studies at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, NY, US (2011). Her research focus is on migration studies, human rights and global justice. She has recently completed her PhD thesis (2026) titled: A qualitative study on unauthorized arrivals to the EU: refugees, migrants, smugglers and the power of labels. The thesis explores narratives and practices of criminalization from a critical human rights perspective deconstructing the everyday legal categories of people on the move that intend to justify state violence against them.
She currently works as Technical Researcher at the Department of Public Law I and Political Science at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), and is member of the Good Governance Observatory and the COMMRADES research team (URJC) the migration and asylum research group (ELCANO), and external collaborator of PICUM.
She has completed a Master in International Migration (University of Valencia, 2019), a Master in Public Policies and Ethics for Democratization and Development (IEPALA, University Complutense of Madrid, 2013), as well as academic research fellowships completed at the University of Chile, Chile (2011), Université Catholique de Lille, France (2019), the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2023) and the Sorbonne University, France (2026). She is also alumni of the School of Civic Studies in Civicaly Engaged Research at Tufts University, Boston, M.A., U.S (2021) and holds a Diploma in Mental Health in Situations of Political Violence and Catastrophes from the Community Action Group, Complutense University of Madrid (2016).
She has been a member of several research projects related to migration: migration to the European Union (H2020 PERCEPTIONS Project); International Refugee Visa Research in collaboration with the International Bar Association in Paris, France, 2019; intervention with unaccompanied foreign minors under the supervision of Professor Emmanuel Jovelin, Université Catholique de Lille, France, 2019; human rights in the West Bank in collaboration with the Women's Affairs Technical Committee of Ramallah, Palestine (2013), and West Side of Syracuse Community Organizing project under the supervision of Professor John Burdick, Syracuse University, NY, US (2010).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4230 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3145-2168 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara-Carrasco-Granger |
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Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Campus de Madrid
University, Madrid, Spain
Research Fellow & PhD Candidate member of the Observatory on Good Governance
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