PhD in Sociology (Complutense University of Madrid, 2007), is a Juan de la Cierva researcher -in the framework of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Program- at the Granada University Department of Social Anthropology. Member of the Migrant Researcher Interdisciplinary Group (Grupo Interdisciplinario de [email protected] Migrantes-GIIM) and of the Laboratory of Intercultural Studies (Laboratorio de Estudios Interculturales), Granada University. Dr. Gil Araujo has been involved in several European research projects for the last seven years, working on migration policy, welfare state regimes, civic stratification, gender and family migration. She lectures on European and Latin American Postgraduate Studies. Areas of interest: public policies, governmentality studies, descolonial perspectives, and the links between migrant integration policies, nation-building processes and social issues. Among her recent publications are: “Migraciones latinoamericanas hacia el Estado español. La reactivación del sistema migratorio transatlántico”, Rodríguez, Ileana y Martínez, Josebe (eds.) Postcolonialidades históricas: In/visibilidades hispanoamericanas/colonianismos ibéricos, Anthropos, Barcelona, 2008; “La política migratoria de la Unión Europea durante 2007”, Informe anual 2008. Sobre el racismo en el Estado español, Icaria-SOS Racismo, Barcelona, 2008; “Discursos políticos sobre la nación en las políticas catalanas de integración de inmigrantes”, Zapata-Barrero, Ricard y Van Dijk, Teun (coords.) Discursos sobre la inmigración en España. Los medios de comunicación, los parlamentos y las administraciones, Barcelona, Fundació CIDOB, 2007.