Irene Pañeda-Fernández
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
irene.paneda[at]wzb.eu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
irene.paneda[at]wzb.eu
I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where I co-coordinate TRANSMIT (Transnational Perspectives on Migration and Integration). Through TRANSMIT I have collected survey data in Senegal, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Germany. We are now preparing the next phase of data collection: a face-to-face representative survey of prospective migrants and their families in northern Morocco.
My research interests lie in the broad themes of inequality and migration. Within the first theme, I work on understanding when and why people come to oppose large income disparities. Within the second, I study what shapes people's aspirations to leave, and how publics in destination and transit countries form attitudes toward immigrants and refugees. My research relies on experimental or quasi-experimental designs for causal inference and I analyze a combination of geo-spatial data, large scale original or secondary surveys, and experimental data.
In 2022, I obtained my Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.
In this website you'll find more information about my research as well as the projects I am involved in.
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