MADRID 2019 The Future of AGEING

María Sánchez-Domínguez is a researcher and professor at the School of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2010. Her primary research line revolves around the question of how social stratification affects people’s life course. In this vein, both her M.A. thesis and her doctoral dissertation have focused on the study of international migration, especially on the topics on family formation and migrant’s strategies for social and economic integration.

As a postdoctoral researcher, she has pursued this agenda further, while also developing new research interests in the fields of demography and the reproduction of social inequalities in divergent European welfare states, with special focus on aging, gender equality, care crisis, and intergeneration transfers in developed countries. Sánchez-Domínguez has published on these issues in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Demographic Research, Migration Studies or The History of the Family.

Connected through a dense international network, she has collaborated with a variety of outstanding scholars based at excellent institutions such as the Centre for Population Studies (Umeå University Sweden), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Genève University, or the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (University of Oxford). Currently, she leads a research project on "Care Crisis in Spain: Family, health and the well-being of the dependents in Spain " funded by the Fundación Ramón Areces.