Zakaria Sajir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Communication at the University of Salamanca and a member of the research group “Labour Market, Migration and Health” (M2S). He is also affiliated with the University Institute for the Sciences of Religions (IUCR) and the Analysis Group on Islam and Arab-Islamic Cultures in Transnational Contexts (GRAIS) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Leicester (2018) and previously held a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography (IEGD-CSIC) in Madrid (2021–2023).
His research focuses on contemporary migration mobilities, labour exploitation, structural discrimination, Islamophobia, the securitisation of new minorities, and the governance of religious and ethnic diversity in Europe. He has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Critical Social Policy, International Journal of Communication, Religions, Italian Sociological Review and Revista Internacional de Sociología, among others. He is co-editor, with Rafael Ruiz Andrés, and author of several chapters in the volume Religious Diversity in Post-Secular Societies: Conceptual Foundations, Public Management and Upcoming Prospects (Springer, 2025).
Sajir has participated in competitively funded projects supported by the British Academy, the ESRC, the Ford Foundation, International Media Support, the KAICIID Dialogue Centre and national research agencies. He is currently a member of the research teams of CULTIHAB (PID2024-158550NA-I00) and RECHANGE (PID2024-160251NB-C21), both 2025–2029 Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Within the COST Action ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, he contributed from 2016 to 2021 to the creation of the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Registry, which received the Open Science – Open Data award from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research in 2022. Since 2024, he has served as secretary of the Sociology of Religion Research Committee (CI 16) of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (Federación Española de Sociología, FES) and is active in academic and policy networks on migration, religion and inequality. His work combines mixed-method survey analysis with qualitative and multilingual fieldwork in Arabic, Italian, French, Spanish and English.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3532 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-7131 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakaria-sajir-sociology-migration-research/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/ZakSajir |
| Researcher ID | AAE-7232-2022 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zakaria-Sajir/research |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Other, Madrid, Spain
Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow -
European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN)
Other, Madrid, Spain
Research Officer -
American University
University, Madrid, Spain
Part-time Lecturer -
That's Fun
Other, Madrid, Spain
English Teacher -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Research Assistant - Project "Voices of African Migrants" -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Associate Tutor -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Research Assistant - Project: Pathways -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Research assistant - Project: Minority women's activism in tough times -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Teaching assistant - Undergraduate module: Ethnicity and Society (SY1015) -
University of Leicester
University, Leicester, United Kingdom
PhD Studentship -
Universidad de Salamanca
Other, Salamanca, Spain
Assistant professor
Research
‘They think you belong to them’: migrant workers’ perspectives on labour exploitation in Spain
| Authors | Mercedes Fernández García, Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Zakaria Sajir |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
“A life on standby”. The effects of irregular status and the pursuit of regularity on the quality of life of unaccompanied minors in Spain
| Authors | Zakaria SAJIR, Rafael Ruiz ANDRÉS, Yoan MOLINERO-GERBEAU |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Revista Calitatea Vieții | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Oxford handbook of citizenship
| Authors | Zakaria Sajir |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Shifting Shadows of Uncertainty: The Utilitarian Migration and Intersectional Risks Among Moroccan Women Agricultural Workers in Spain During COVID-19
| Authors | Zakaria Sajir |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Diversity | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Post-Secular Approach to Managing Diversity in Liberal Democracies: Exploring the Interplay of Human Rights, Religious Identity, and Inclusive Governance in Western Societies
| Authors | Zakaria Sajir |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Religions | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Desinformación e islamofobia en tiempos de infodemia. Un análisis sociológico desde España
| Authors | Rafael Ruiz Andrés, Zakaria Sajir |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Revista Internacional de Sociología |
“Todo cambia, todo sigue igual”. La gobernanza de la mano de obra migrante en la agricultura española e italiana en el primer año de la pandemia de Covid-19
| Authors | Zakaria Sajir, Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Gennaro Avallone |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Estudios Geográficos | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Acuerdos comerciales, migratorios, de seguridad y de empleo centro-periferia. Un análisis de ecología-mundo
| Authors | Zakaria Sajir |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Relaciones Internacionales | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Recuperar la nacionalidad como premio. Utilitarismo migratorio y pensamiento de Estado en el programa VISAR en España
| Authors | Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Zakaria Sajir |
| Journal Name | REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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