Editorial Board Members

Beatriz Padilla joined the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida in 2018, after living in Portugal for 16 years, where she was associate research professor at IUL-ISCTE and associate professor at the University of Minho. She is the interim director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at USF and the co-chair of the International Migration Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). As a Global Migration Scholar, her work includes immigration, diversity, race/ethnicity, gender, health and public policy. She coordinated several research projects including Transatlantic initiatives GOVDIV (Multilevel Governance of Cultural Diversity in a Comparative Perspective: EU-Latin America.