Prof. Tigau has a PhD in Political and Social Sciences (2007) and a Master in Communication (2004) from UNAM. She has studied journalism and communication at the University of Bucharest (Romania), the Journalism Schools of Utrecht (Holland), and Aarhus (Denmark).

Since has been associated with CISAN since 2009, working on skilled migration and diaspora diplomacy. She teaches at undergraduate and graduate levels at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM.

She coordinates the PAPIIT IN 302324 collective project, “Communication and diplomacy of diasporas. Perspectives from the reception contexts in the Americas, Europe, and Asia¨ (2024 – 2027), supported by DGAPA/UNAM.

She was a visiting researcher at the Global Migration Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto (2022-2023), the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Texas (2016-2017), and the University of York, Canada (2010). She participated in the Chair of Studies on the Americas, a collaboration of the University of Montreal, the Institute for Social Research, and CISAN (2021-2023).

She represents CISAN in various international and national forums. She is vice president of the Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (India); co-coordinator of the International Relations Track of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, 2023-2024); co-coordinator of the event organization group of the University Seminar for Studies on Internal Displacement, Migration, Exile and Repatriation (SUDIMER) at UNAM.

She is a National System of Researchers member, level II and has PRIDE C. In 2022, she received the Son Juana Inés de la Cruz Award from UNAM.

Her work includes books and articles on skilled migration and science diplomacy topics.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4537-2855

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Full Researcher level A, Area of Integration Studies.

• International migration
• Skilled diasporas
• Diaspora communication
• Diplomacy and international communication

English language publications (excerpts)

Edited books

2024 (upcoming). Migration and the Rise of the United States: The Role of Old and New Diasporas, co-edited with Amba Pande, Edinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism, Edinburgh University Press

2022. Trump’s Legacy in Migration Policy and Postpandemic Challenges for Biden, CISAN/UNAM ed. con Mónica Verea, CISAN/UNAM, 2022, ISBN 9786073054454, 192 pgs., http://www.cisan.unam.mx/assets/novedades/preliminares/Prel_indice_presentacion_Trumps_Legacy.pdf

 

Peer-reviewed articles

2023. ¨Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US¨, Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho de IIJ, with Alejandro Mosqueda and Rubén Chávez, January – December 2023, ISSN 20074387, https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/filosofia-derecho/article/view/18211/18482

2020. ¨The Scarcity of Nobel Prizes in Latin America. A Culturalist Approach to the History of Brain Drain in the Region¨. Migration and Diasporas, an Interdisciplinary Journal, july– December, ISSN: 25819437, https://grfdt.com/Upload/JournalGallery/1_203189456_Camelia%20Tigau.pdf

2019. ¨Conflict - Induced Displacement of Skilled Refugees: A Cross-Case Analysis of Syrian Professionals in Selected OECDCountries¨, Norteamérica, CISAN, 14: 1, January – June, DOI: ,http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2019.1.359 p.341-368

2018. ¨The Scientific Diplomacy of Medical Diasporas: A Case Study of Foreign Medical Doctors in Texas¨, Migration and Diaspora: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol 1. no. 2, July – December 2018, ISSN: 25819437, https://www.grfdt.com/Upload/JournalGallery/1_434534141_Camelia%20Tigau.pdf, p. 8-31

2017. ¨Skilled Mexican Migrants In Texas: What The Numbers Hide¨, Research Paper, Baker Institute Mexico Center, julio de 2017, https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/76c88ca8/MEX-pub-Migrants-071017.pdf

2017. Skilled Immigration and the Conditions of Labour Competition in the US: A Comparative Study of the Indian, the Mexican and the Chinese Diasporas¨. With Amba Pande (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) and Yan Yuan (Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan). Migration and Development, ISSN 2163-2332, impreso: 2163-2324, 6 (3), http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17415977.2017.1301044

2017. ¨Diaspora Policies and Co-development: A Comparison between India, China and Mexico". Migration Letters, 14.2: 181 – 195 (2017). With Amba Pande (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) and Yan Yuan (Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan). ISSN: 1741-8984 e-ISSN: 1741-8992.

2015. "Education Premiums and Skilled Migration in Mexico: Lessons for an Educational Policy." Education Policy Analysis Archives 23.104 (2015). With Bernardo Bolaños Guerra, ISSN 1068-2341