Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo
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Sociologist and demographer, Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo served as the President of El Colegio de México from 2015 to 2025. She holds a position as professor at the Center for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at El Colegio de México and is a member of El Colegio Nacional.
Her research focuses on three main areas: international migration in the Americas; youth and transitions to adulthood in Mexico and Latin America; the intersection of demographic dynamics, education, and public policy.
Currently, she is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Mesoamerican Migration Project (El Colegio de México and Brown University) and the 2021 Recent Immigration Survey of the Latin American Migration Project (El Colegio de México, Brown University, and the Universidad de la República). She has collaborated at diverse academic committees with UNESCO, UNICEF, UN Women and UNFPA, as well as in scientific committees in Vienna, Barcelona, Oxford and Mexico, among others. She has held fellowships at Stanford University, University of Chicago and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
She joins the Paris IAS for a one-month writing residency in March 2027.
Research sujects
International migration in the Americas; demographic dynamics and public policies in Latin America; migration and education; transitions to adulthood.
Between border and fallacies: the management of migration in the Americas
Migration has increasingly become a matter of public debate and political confrontation at a moment of increasing polarization in Latin America. Countries in the region have recently experienced rapid and sudden shifts in the characteristic of international migration flows, including a rapid increase in the intraregional mobility during this century and the arrival of new migrants settling mainly in cities. In addition, the flows are more diverse regarding their motivations (economic, labor, climate and politically driven) and the profile of migrants which include children and family units moving together.
Within this scenario, countries in the region face new challenges regarding the management of migration and the integration of migrants in the communities of reception. The main goals of this research are to analyze comprehensively the changes in the international migration moves in Latin America and the Caribbean, anticipate possible scenarios given the demographic dynamics and the low fertility in most of the countries, review the different responses to the international flows and the integration policies and assess the role of the migration policies from the US on the management of migration in the region. A comprehensive analysis of the ongoing changes in the region offers potential new insights to inform the current debate regarding the theories of migration and integration in receiving contexts as well as the main paradigms on the management of migration worldwide.
Key publications
Giorguli Saucedo, Silvia Elena, Los senderos demográficos en el futuro de México. El Colegio Nacional, 2025
Zúñiga, Víctor & Silvia Elena, Giorguli, Saucedo The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to Mexico, Oakland, California. University of California Press, 2024
Giorguli Saucedo, Silvia Elena et Miguel Amaro,“Sitting on the Wall: The Intersections of International Migration and Education”, in Mark Berends, Barbara Schneider, Stephen Lamb (editors), The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education, Cap. 19 United Kingdom, SAGE, 2024
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