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• The Professor of Sociology has focused her studies on international migration dynamics and the social inclusion of ethnic minorities from a sociological perspective
• She has been director of the “Centre d'Estudis i Recerca en migracions” of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, which is a reference in migration studies.

Madrid, July 7, 2023. The Professor of Sociology of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Carlota Solé i Puig, has received the 2023 National Prize for Sociology and Political Science, after a professional and policy for more than 50 years.

Graduated in Economic Sciences from the universities of Barcelona and Bilbao between 1961 and 1967, she has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Reading (England) since 1982 and in Economic Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, since 1975, and Professor. of Sociology from the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

He has worked as a teacher at both the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Complutense University of Madrid, at the Higher School of Business Administration and Management (ESADE), or at various foreign universities such as the University of Reading or the Instituto Universitario dei Studi. Europei in Turin.

In 1989 he founded the Study Group on Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (GEDIME), a center dedicated to the study of international migration dynamics, transnational practices in migration contexts and the social inclusion of ethnic minorities, from a sociological perspective.

This group has been attached since its inception to the Department of Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Her studies focus on modernization, immigration and business organizations, although she deals with topics such as women, nationalism and the labor market. Among his publications he has magazine articles, collaborations in collective works, reviews, books, thesis direction and coordination in other publications.

She has been director of the “Centre d'Estudis i Recerca en migracions” of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a center that is concerned with carrying out studies on migration and is considered a reference in this field. His books include, among others, “Modernization: a sociological analysis” (1976), “The sociocultural integration of immigrants in Catalonia” (1981), “Ethnic businesses: the businesses of non-EU immigrants in Catalonia” (2006). or “Immigration and citizenship” (2011).

She was awarded the Mary Parker Follet Award from the American Political Science Association with her article “Language and the Construction of States: the Case of Catalonia in Spain” in 1995. Between 1994 and 2015 she directed the sociology magazine «Papers », since 1998 he has been a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and since 2022 he belongs to the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

The jury for this award, which made the decision unanimously, was made up of the president of the CIS, the Professor of Sociology, Jose Félix Tezanos Tortajada, the Professor of Sociology of the National University of Distance Education, María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales, the Professor of Sociology at the Carlos III University of Madrid and 2021 National Sociology Prize, Constanza Tobío, the Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid and 2019 National Sociology Prize, Inés Alberdi, the Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid and former president of the Center for Sociological Research, Cristóbal Torres Albero, and the Professor of Sociology at the Public University of Navarra and National Sociology Award 2022, Rafael Pardo Avellaneda.

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