Laura Oso is Professor of Sociology at the University of A Coruña. She was coordinator of the research group: Equipo de Investigación Sociedades en Movemento (ESOMI) for 13 years (2011-2024).

Her lines of research include migration, gender and the labour market, highlighting studies on ethnic entrepreneurship, domestic service and social mobility. She also works on Galician migration to France and Argentina and on the impact of transnational migration dynamics on development.

She participates, as principal researcher of the UDC in the projects “Care, inequality and Wellbeing in Transnational Families in Europe: A Comparative Intergenerational Study in Spain, France, Sweden and UK” (PCI2021-121924) e “Welcoming Spaces – Investing in “Welcoming Spaces” in Europe: revitalizing shrinking áreas by hosting non-EU migrants” (ID: 87095), H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2019.

Among her publications we hightlight:

• Oso, L., & Martínez‐Buján, R. (2022). Welfare Paradoxes and Interpersonal Pacts: Transnational Social Protection of Latin American Migrants in Spain. Social Inclusion, 9(4).
• Bermúdez, Anastasia y Laura Oso (2020): Recent trends in intra-EU mobilities: the articulation between migration, social protection, gender and citizenship systems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020-06-16.
• Laura Oso (2020): Crossed mobilities: the “recent wave” of Spanish migration to France after the economic crisis, Ethnic and Racial Studies 2020-03-20.;
• Bermúdez, Anastasia; Oso, Laura (2018): ‘Kites’ and ‘anchors’: the (im)mobility strategies of transnational Latin American families against the crisis in Spain, Population, Space and Place.