Victoria Prieto Rosas
Programa de Poblacion, Universidad de la Republica
victoria.prieto@cienciassociales.edu.uy
Associate Professor of Demography at the Population Program, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de la República (UDELAR, Uruguay) and is a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Holds a PhD in Demography from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with a background in Sociology, and is a former student of the European Doctoral School in Demography.
Her research focuses on digital demography, international migration, migrant inclusion and exclusion, with a focus on labour incorporation and legal status trajectories. Currently co-leads the research group Human Mobility and Digital Demography at UDELAR and coordinates the Observatory of International Migration in Uruguay (OMIF). Recent work examines migrant regularization pathways across Latin America, life-course approaches to migration, and the use of digital trace data and social media audiences for demographic estimation. Is also a member of CAMINAR, a regional research network studying migration governance and regularization processes across Latin America.
Serves as Associate Editor of International Migration Review and is a member of the editorial boards of Comparative Migration Studies and Revista de Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos. Also serves as a member of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration and is a member of the Latin American Population Association.
Bengochea, J., Prieto, V., Del Fava, E., Zagheni, E. Mind the differences. An Assessment of Available Data Sources To Study Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean. Can. Stud. Popul. 52, 18 (2025).
Torres, C., Rosas, V. P., De Armas, G., & Paredes, M. (2024). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Uruguay from 2020 to 2022. Demographic Research, 51, 911-926.
Prieto Rosas, Victoria; Montiel, Camila; Montoli Fernández, Pablo; Riaño, María Eugenia (2024) Encuesta sobre migración e impactos de la pandemia por COVID-19. Informe de resultados.
Varona, T., Masferrer, C., Prieto Rosas, V., & Pedemonte, M. (2024). Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data. Demographic Research, 50(39), 1171-1184.
Zapata, G., Gandini, L., Vera Espinoza, M. & Prieto Rosas, V. (2023). Weakening Practices amidst Progressive Laws: Refugee Governance in Latin America during COVID-19. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 21(4)
Wang, Z., Prieto Rosas, V., Márquez Scotti, C., & Bengochea Soria, J. (2023). The Social Inclusion of Migrants Between Policy and Practice: Lessons from Uruguay. International Migration Review.
Prieto Rosas, V., Bengochea, J., Fernández Soto, M., Márquez Scotti, C., & Montiel, C. (2022). Informe de resultados de la Etnoencuesta deInmigración Reciente en Montevideo (ENIR 1, 2018). Documento de Trabajo PP No. 7. FCS UM UdelaR, Montevideo.
Prieto Rosas, V. & Bengochea, J. (2022) International Migration in South America, en Feldmann, A. E., Bada, x., Durand, J., Schütze, S. (Ed) The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration, 62–77. New York: Routledge.
Vera Espinoza, M., Prieto Rosas, V., Zapata, G. P., Gandini, L., Fernández de la Reguera, A., Herrera, G., … Palla, I. (2021). Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparative Migration Studies, 9(1): 52.
Zapata, G. P. and Prieto Rosas, V. (2020) Structural and Contingent Inequalities: The Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant and Refugee Populations in South America, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 40(1): 1-7.
Gandini, L.; Lozano-Ascencio, F. y Prieto Rosas, V. (2019). Crisis y Migración de la población venezolana. Entre la desprotección y la seguridad jurídica en Latinoamérica. México: UNAM.
Prieto Rosas, V.; Recaño, J. and Quintero, D. (2018) Migration responses to the great economic recession in Spain among immigrants. Demographic Research, 38: 38-61.
Associate Editor, International Migration Review.
Member, IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration.
Member, UN Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS).
Guest Researcher, MPIDR.
Founding Member, CAMINAR.
Guest researcher - Adjunct assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Clemson University(USA)
Awarded best dissertation from Autonomous University of Barcelona cohort 2012