Camelia Nicoleta Tigau

Senior Fellow
Center For Research On North America

cameliatigau@hotmail.com

Field of Study: Public Administration/ Government, Sociology
 
Specialization: International Migration, Labor force/Employment, Population and Development
 
Regional focus: Latin America and the Caribbean, United States and Canada
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), National Autonomous University of Mexico, Social and Political Science, 2007
 
Working languages: Spanish
English, Romanian
 
Curriculum Vitae:
 
Professional Summary:

 

 

Camelia Tigau is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), currently appointed as a visiting professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She is a regional vice-president of the Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (GRFDT, India). She has published extensively on skilled migration, scientific diplomacy, and Canadian studies. In 2022, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for outstanding women scientists at UNAM.

 

 

Publications:
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    Selected Publications

     

    Authored Books

    2021. Discriminación y privilegios de la migración calificada: profesionistas mexicanos en Texas (Discrimination and Privileges of Skilled Migration: Mexican Professionals in Texas), CISAN/UNAM, ISBN 978-607-30-3242-1, 316 pages. Based on research at Rice University, Houston and University of Texas at Austin, https://www.amazon.ca/Discriminaci%C3%B3n-privilegios-migraci%C3%B3n-calificada-Profesionistas-ebook/dp/B091SJ722L

    2013. Riesgos de la fuga de cerebros en México: construcción mediática, posturas gubernamentales y expectativas de los migrantes (Risks of Brain Drain in Mexico, Media Framing, Governmental Positions and Migrant Expextations). CISAN – UNAM,172 pgs., ISBN 978-607-02-4777-4. https://ru.micisan.unam.mx/handle/123456789/16694

    2009. Diplomacia en la era digital. La ayuda alimenticia como maniobra neoliberal (Diplomacy in the Digital Age. Food Aid as a Neoliberal Maneuvre). México: UNAM/ CISAN & Editorial Cenzontle, 170 pgs., ISBN 978-970-9929-19-5, https://www.academia.edu/6358218/Diplomacia_en_la_era_digital_La_ayuda_…

     

    Booklets

    2022. Minorías Atípicas en Norteamérica: Profesionistas desplazados y migrantes que se vuelven antimigrantes (Atypical Minorities in North America: Displaced Professionals and Migrants Turning Anti-Immigrant), México: UNAM/CISAN, 68 pgs, with Alejandro Mosqueda. ISBN 978-607-30-6266-4, http://www.libros.unam.mx/minorias-atipicas-en-norteamerica-profesionistas-despalzados-y-migrantes-que-se-vuelven-9786073062664-libro.html

    2010. ¿Fuga de cerebros o nomadismo científico? (Brain Drain or Scientific Nomadism?), México: UNAM/ CISAN (2010), 62 pgs., ISBN 978-607-02-1742-5. https://ru.micisan.unam.mx/bitstream/handle/123456789/19640/C0016.pdf?s…

     

    Edited books

    2022. Trump’s Legacy In Migration Policy And Postpandemic Challenges For Biden, CISAN/UNAM, edited with Mónica Verea, CISAN/UNAM, 2022, ISBN 9786073054454, 192 pages, http://www.cisan.unam.mx/assets/novedades/preliminares/Prel_indice_presentacion_Trumps_Legacy.pdf

    2021. Canadá y sus paradojas en el Siglo XXI. Artes, Ciencia, Política, Medios y Migración  (Canada and its Paradoxes in the 21st Century. Arts, Science, Politics, Media and Migration), (2021), edited with Graciela Martínez-Zalce, CISAN/UNAM, ISBN 978-607-30-5445-4, 296 pages, http://www.cisan.unam.mx/assets/novedades/preliminares/Prel_indice_e_introd_Canada_2.pdf

    2017. Canadá Hoy. Política, Sociedad y Cultura (Canada Today. Politics, Society and Culture) Edited by Gutiérrez, Elizabeth; Oliver Santín and Camelia Tigau. UNAM/CISAN. ISBN 978-607-02-9849-3, https://www.academia.edu/35869645/CANAD%C3%81_HOY_POL%C3%8DTICA_SOCIEDAD_Y_CULTURA

     

     

    Recent Book Chapters

    2022. ¨Exilio intelectual y humanitarismo en el siglo XXI: el caso de Ukrainetakeshalter en Canadᨠ(¨Intellectual Exile and Humanitarianism in the 21st Century: the Case of the Ukrainetakeshalter in Canada¨), in Lértora Mendoza, Celina A. (ed.by). Temas actuales de política científica, Red de politica científica desde Latinoamérica, Buenos Aires: Ediciones F.E.P.A.I. (Fundación para el Estudio del Pensamiento Argentino e Iberoamericano), cap. 10, pp. 167-188, ISBN 978-987-4483-39-3, http://bibliotecafepai.fepai.org.ar/Libros/redpolcien/LibroRedPCL-2022.pdf

    2022. ¨Médicos extranjeros al rescate: retos del sistema de salud norteamericano durante la pandemia por Covid19¨ (¨Foreign Doctors to the Rescue: Challenges of the North American Health System During the Covid19 Pandemic¨) in Ballesteros, Carlos (ed. by). El gran desconcierto. Las regiones internacionales y las crisis de 2020, México: UNAM/DGAPA/FCPYS, ISBN: 978-607-30-5961-9, with Telésforo Ramírez – García and Alejandro Mosqueda, pp. 113-131, https://www.politicas.unam.mx/cri/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/EL-GRAN-DESCONCIERTO.jpg

    2022. ¨Friends on Other Continents: Representations of Biden´s migration diplomacy outside the Americas¨, in Verea, M. and Tigau, C. Trump’s Legacy in Migration Policy and Postpandemic Challenges For Biden, CISAN/UNAM CISAN/UNAM, 2022, ISBN 9786073054454, 192 pgs., pp. 71-102, http://www.cisan.unam.mx/assets/novedades/preliminares/Prel_indice_presentacion_Trumps_Legacy.pdf

    2021. ¨Brain Gain in North America. Changes in a Long-Term Paradigm ¨, in Migration and Borders in North America, edited by Martínez-Zalce, G. and Verea, M., CISAN/UNAM, 2021, ISBN 978-607-30-5206-1, pp. 71-102, http://www.cisan.unam.mx/novedades/Preliminares/Prel_indice_introduccion_MigrationandBorders.pdf

     

    Academic Articles

    2021.¨La excepcionalidad migratoria de las ciudades cosmopolitas:  el caso de Nueva York durante la presidencia de Donald Trump¨ (¨Migration Exceptionality of Cosmopolitan Cities: the Case of New York During the Presidency of Donald Trump¨), with Esther Alonso. Revista Gaceta Internacional, Taus, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú, 2021, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 15-24 (by invitation), https://taus.org.pe/review/la-excepcionalidad-migratoria-de-las-ciudades-cosmopolitas-el-caso-de-nueva-york-durante-la-presidencia-de-donald-trump/

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

    2019. ¨Profesionales en ciencias, tecnología, ingenierías y matemáticas (CTIM) en la migración calificada mexicana a Estados Unidos¨ (¨STEM Mexican professional Migrants in the US¨),  Revista Latinoamericana de Antropología del Trabajo, with Telésforo Ramírez-García, Publicado, ISSN 2591-2755, no. 6, diciembre 2019, http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/lat/article/view/53

    2018.¨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 2018, with Bernardo Bolanos, ISSN:25819437, https://grfdt.com/Upload/JournalGallery/1_203189456_Camelia%20Tigau.pdf

    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, p. 8-31,  ISSN:25819437, https://grfdt.com/Upload/JournalGallery/1_711627535_Camelia%20Tigau.pdf

    2018. ¨¿Dónde están los que vuelven? Un análisis de la integración laboral de los migrantes calificados que retornan de Estados Unidos a México¨, Revista Ser Migrante de la OIM, no. 5, ene-junio 2018, with Telésforo Ramírez-García, pp. 9-23, http://oim.org.mx/publicaciones/

    2018. ¨Mujeres mexicanas altamente calificadas en el mercado laboral estadounidense: ¿integradas o segregadas?¨, withTelésforo Ramírez García. Revista Sociedad y Economía, 34, pp. 75-101, ISSN 1657-6357, https://www.doi.org/10.25100/sye.v0i34.6475

    2017. ¨Skilled Mexican Migrants In Texas: What The Numbers Hide¨, Research Paper, Baker Institute Mexico Center, https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/98848

    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 and and Yan Yuan, Migration and Development, ISSN en línea 2163-2332, 2017, 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 and Yan Yuan. ISSN: 1741-8984 e-ISSN: 1741-8992, https://migrationresearch.com/item/diaspora-policies-and-co-development…

    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, https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/1845

    2015. ¨La imagen de la migración calificada en América de Norte¨, Migraciones Internacionales, COLEF. Migraciones internacionales 8.2 (2015): 195-229, ISSN 1665-8906, https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1665-89062015000200007

    2013. ¨Policies for High-Skilled vs. Low-Skilled Migration in North America¨, Open Journal of Political Science, vol. 3, no. 4, 2013, p. 158 - 166. Edited by Scientific Research Publishing, California, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=38580

    2012. “Circulation of the Highly Qualified Workforce in Latin America: A Focus on the Mexican Diaspora”. Latin American Essays,Vol. 25, 2012. Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies pp.38-52, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57f588b8cd0f68cfa768c7dd/t/581a6322197aea1a94d7c170/1478124323909/Journal-25.pdf

    2009. ¨GMO Public Diplomacy for Biosafety in Mexico Applications of a hierarchical model of communication¨. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Palgrave McMillan, February 2009, 5 (1), pp. 38-53. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/pb.2008.28

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Vice-President of Global Research Forum on Transnationalism and Diasporas
Research grants:
Reserach scholarship from the General Department for Academic Personnel, UNAM (2022-2023)