LAIZ MOREIRA Sofia

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Sofia.LAIZ-MOREIRA@univ-amu.fr

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  • Sofia Laiz Moreira is a psycho-sociologist and researcher at the University of Aix-Marseille. She currently teaches in the Department of Sociology, the Faculty of Psychology and Inspe. She is also a research associate (fellow) at the Institut Convergences Migrations, Collège de France, and a member of the European network COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology): 'Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe'.

 

 

 

 

 

Curriculum

  • Postdoctorate in sociology of education: Evaluation of the school and university guidance system PIA3 PANORAMA project. Aix Marseille University (Mesopolhis CNRS SciencePo Laboratory), University of Avignon and University of Toulon. France.
  • Post-doctorate in sociology of education: Evaluation of the system "Cordée de la réussite", Rectorat de l'Académie d'Aix Marseille and Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie- (LAMES), Aix Marseille Université-CNRS. France.
  • PhD in Sociology of Migration (2015),  Universidade da Coruña, Spain.
  • Master 2 Migration and Intercultural Studies . Faculty of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
  • D.E.A in public law: Child protection " Migrant minors in precarious social and legal situations". Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
  • D.E in analytical psychology (5-year course). Ifaap, Fédération nationale de psychanalyse. France
  • Licence psychologie, Aix Marseille Université, France.
  • Degree in Sociology, Universidade da Coruña, Spain.
  • Bilingual Spanish-English bachelor's degree (Cambridge University), CDP, Argentina.

 
  • Qualifications:
  • Section 19: Sociology - Demography
  • Section 14: Hispanic and Latin American Studies (Romance Studies)

 
  • Languages spoken:

 

 
  • English,
  • French,
  • Spanish (mother tongue),
  • Portuguese (notions)

 

Academic work

DOCTORAL THESIS

Intergenerational social mobility strategies and trajectories of young migrants in Spain

Access to thesis manuscript: URL https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/14186?locale-attribute=en

Edited by Laura Oso Casas and Natalia Ribas Mateos

Summa Cum Laude

 

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International research contracts:

  • 2011-2013: Set-up and coordination of the " Project Namae: For an evaluation of educational policies in the migration of minors and young migrants to Spain" . University of A Coruña, selected and funded by the Spanish Government's Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID).
  • 2009-2011: Set-up and coordination of the " Project Arbax: Against racial bullying and xenophobia project. "Galician Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Government of Galicia, Spain. Project selected and funded by the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency (EACEA).
  • 2007-2009: Development and coordination of continuing education projects within the framework of the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency (EACEA) calls: "E retail" project (Leonardo da Vinci call); "Igloo" (Grundtvig call) and "CECE" (Leonrado da Vinci call). Femxa Formation, Vigo, Spain.

 

Areas of research

Disciplines: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Migration, Psycho-sociology, Romance Studies.

Geographical areas :  Latin America, Spain, France, Morocco 

  • Latin American migration and social mobility
  • Youth, young migrants: pschool guidance course and professional
  • Evaluating public policies: educational measures under the equal opportunities policy
  • Ethnicity, discrimination and identity
  • Family, gender and migration 
  • Ethno- psychologie, psychologie transculturelle

Member of the COST ACTION Transnational families in Europe: https://transnational-families.eu/objectives/

 

Productions

 

BOOKS

  1. RICHARD BOSSEZ A., BERTHET T. and LAIZ MOREIRA S. (Dir.) (2025) From secondary to higher education: the challenges of guidance. Cahiers du LEST. Octares ed.
  2. RIBAS MATEOS, N. and LAIZ, S. (Eds.) (2014) Movilidades adolescentes. Elementos teóricos emergentes en la ruta entre Marruecos y España. Barcelona: Editorial Bellaterra. 345 pages.

 

  • CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE WORKS
    1. LAIZ MOREIRA. S (2025) " Du lycée au supérieur: facteurs psychosociaux dans la réussite du projet d'orientation ", in Berthet T.Richard Bossez and Laiz Moreira, S. From secondary to higher education: the challenges of guidance. Cahiers du LEST. Octares ed.
    2. RICHARD BOSSEZ and LAIZ MOREIRA S. (2025) Passer du collège au lycée: ce qu'en disent les élèves de REP+ en Berthet T. Richard Bossez and Laiz Moreira, S. From secondary to higher education: the challenges of guidance. Cahiers du LEST. Octares Ed..
    3. LAIZ MOREIRA. S (2025) "From social capital to ethnic capital" in OSO CASAS, L. , RIBAS MATEOS N. and MORALLI, M. (Eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Activism. Editorial Elgar. Barcelona.
    4. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2023) in "Economic crisis and intergenerational social mobility: Argentines and Moroccans in Galicia" in " The Migratory Experience. From words to systems". under the direction of Amanda Da Silva, Cécile Giraud, Josepha Milazzo and Kelly Poulet. Paris, Editions L'Harmattan. Available in : http://liseuse.harmattan.fr/978-2-8061-3259-8
    5. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2014). "Familia, migraciones y procesos de incorporación de los jóvenes migrantes en Galicia" en RIBAS MATEOS, N. y LAIZ, S. Movilidades adolescentes. Elementos teóricos emergentes la ruta entre Marruecos y Europa. Barcelona: Editorial Bellaterra, pp. 281-201
    6. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2014) Prologue (in Spanish and French) to RIBAS MATEOS, N. y LAIZ, S.  Movilidades adolescentes. Elementos teóricos emergentes la ruta entre Marruecos y Europa. Barcelona: Editorial Bellaterra, pp.13-19/ 20-25.
  • ARTICLES IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL
  1. DALLE, Pablo and LAIZ MOREIRA, Sofia (2025) The role of ethnic capital in the social mobility strategies of the children of immigrants and young Latin American migrants in Argentina. European Journal of Migration International. Accepted 17/07/2025. To be published.
  2. LAIZ MOREIRA, S and NOVARO, Gabriela (2025) Sforging a path: education and youth work bolivians in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Les cahiers des Amériques Latines. In the assessment phase.
  3. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2025) Young people in the making: School guidance for equal opportunities. Hybrid review of education. In the evaluation phase.
  4. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2025) Du lycée à la fac: Les difficultés liées à la transition vers l'enseignement supérieur. Études & Pédagogies magazine.  https://doi.org/10.20870/eep.2025.8504
  5. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2025) The role of ethnic, family, and social capitals in intergenerational social mobility among the Argentineans and Moroccans in Galicia, Spain.  Two Homelands. (61) pp.135-155. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/14367/12436
  6. LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2022) Girando la rueda: capitales familiares y estrategias de movilidad social intergeneracional de argentinos en Galicia. Special issue Revista Población y SociedadUniversidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina.
  7. with GUTIERREZ SANCHEZ (2021) Expectativas educativas y laborales de jóvenes inmigrantes. El caso de Marruecos y Rumanía REIM Revista internacional de estudios migratorios. Volumen 11(1), 132 - 159.
  8. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2021) La reproducción de las desigualdades en las trayectorias de movilidad social intergeneracional de los jóvenes marroquíes en España. Revista Migraciones. Universidad de Comillas.
    https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.i52.y2021.004
  9. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2021) A la recherche d'une insertion sociale réussie : le rôle des programmes d'accompagnement à l'emploi dans les parcours de vie des jeunes étrangers non accompagnés. JMM magazine Young people and minors on the moveNo. 6, forthcoming, MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers, France.
  10. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2020) "I dream of a better future to help my mother, to give her back all she gave to me...: social mobility projects, the family and other determinants in children's migration", Questions Vives [Online], No. 32 | 2019, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/questionsvives/4142.
  11. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2020) "Capital étnico e migrações de jovens argentinos e suas famílias que voltaram para Galícia". PERIPLOS, Revista de Pesquisa sobre Migraçõesv. 4 n. 1 (2020), Universidade de Brasília- UnB. CLACSO - GT Migrações Sud Sud. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/obmigra_periplos/article/view/30551
  12. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2020) "Crónica de una migración anunciada: las migraciones de retorno a las raíces de argentinos en Galicia (España) a principios del siglo XXI". Journal of contemporary societies and cultures Europe-America. Amnis [Online], 19 | 2020, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/amnis/5441 DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/amnis.5441
  13. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2020) "¿Movilidad social a partir de la movilidad geográfica?: los casos de familias argentinas y marroquíes inmigradas en un contexto regional español". Cuestiones De Sociología(23), Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Buenos Aires, Argentina https://www.cuestionessociologia.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/CSe105
  14. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2020) "Jóvenes migrantes en el puente transnacional Argentina-España: trayectorias de movilidad social a partir de la movilidad geográfica". The Cahiers d'ALHIM n°39, 2020, edited by Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Nathalie Jammet-Arias and Mercè Pujol Berché.<https://journals.openedition.org/al...>
  15. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2020) "Catapulted into upward educational mobility. Gender, age and educational attainment in Moroccan girls settled in Spain". African journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research (AJSSHR),(ISSN : 2689-5129), Volume 3, Issue 1, 2020.
  16. - with RICHARD-BOSSEZ et al.(2020) "Accompagner la transition collège-lycée : les enseignements des Parcours d'Excellence en Rep+". E&D magazine.
  17. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2019) "El impacto de las jerarquías de género y edad en las estrategias de movilidad social inter-generacional de familias argentinas y marroquíes en Galicia", POLIS, Revista LatinoamericanaNo. 51 (January-February 2019) Universidad de Santiago, Chile. https://journals.openedition.org/polis/16450
  18. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2017) "Género, edad y generación: la familia y los meso determinantes en las trayectorias educativas y ocupacionales de los hijos de inmigrantes marroquíes asentados en España"; Studi Emigrazioni. (206), aprile - guigno 2017; 258 - 275. Centro Studi Emigrazione di Roma, Italia.
  19. - with GIMENO, CH. (2017) 'Minors who migrate alone and child protection systems: a regional approach in the Spanish state'. EMPAN Journal, 2017/3 (107); 126 - 132.
  20. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2016) "Familias migrantes y estrategias de movilidad social intergeneracional en las migraciones argentinas y marroquíes a Galicia: un enfoque inter-seccional" en "Procesos migratorios y dinámicas familiares desde una perspectiva de género.Circuitos en, desde y hacia América Latina" (Coords.) GIL ARAUJO, S. and ROSAS, C., .Odisea. Revista de Estudios Migratorios, (3) 78-98, 2016. Ed. Instituto de Investigación Gino Germani, Univerdad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  21. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2015): 'The impact of the institution in the emancipation processes of migrant minors from Beni Mellal (Morocco) to Galicia (Spain)' ; European Journal of International Migration 31 (2), 79-98
  22. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2013). Itinerarios institucionalizados: Responsabilidades y dinámicas de exclusión en la protección de los menores migrantes no acompañados en Galicia. Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Docencia (REID), (10), pp 83- 100.
  23. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2012): Family, community and transnationalism in the migration of Moroccan minors to Spain: the case of Beni Mellal ; Hommes et Migrations magazineNo. 1300 Nov-Dec 2012, pp. 63-70.
  24. - LAIZ MOREIRA S (2012) Buscando una oportunidad. Menores que migran solos a Galicia. Libro de Actas I Congreso Internacional de las Migraciones en Andalucía. Instituto de las Migraciones. Universidad de Granada. Granada. 16-18 Febrero 2011, pp. 943-956. ISBN 978-84-921390-3.
  25. - LAIZ MOREIRA, S. (2011) El tratamiento institucional de los menores no acompañados en Galicia: ¿Hacia una emancipación? REINAD (Revista de infancia y adolescencia), (1) Sep. 2011. Universidad de Valencia, pp. 72-85. ISSN 2174-721.

 

 

Reports:

  1. "El género en movimiento,Familias y migraciones" by María Eugenia Zavala de Cosío and Virginie Rozée Gomez, in "Les Cahiers ALHIM", special issue Baby-Collin, V. andParraudin, A. 2016) coords.
  2. "In transition: training trajectories of young migrants in precarious legal situations". Claudio Bolzman; Alexandra Felder and Antonio Fernandez. Revue REMI; University of Poitiers.

Reports:

  • LAIZ MOREIRA Sofia (2025) Rapport de résultats : Enquête de mesure d'impact du dispositif d'orientation Panorama, pour un suivi de parcours auprès de 5 établissements de la région PACA - (Report on the results: survey to measure the impact of the Panorama guidance system, to monitor the career paths of 5 establishments in the PACA region).Cohort 2023-2025. PIA3 PANORAMA project. Aix Marseille University, University of Avignon and University of Toulon.
  • LAIZ MOREIRA Sofia (2024) Report on results: Survey to measure the impact of the Panorama guidance system, to monitor the progress of 5 establishments in the PACA region, Cohort 2022-2024. PIA3 PANORAMA project. Aix Marseille University, University of Avignon and University of Toulon.
  • LAIZ MOREIRA (2023) Rapport de résultats Enquête exploratoire de mesure d'impact, Projet PANORAMA. Aix Marseille University
  • RICHARD BOSSEZ, A et al. Crossing the ford. The transition from third to second year in REP+: what the research says. [Research Report] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LAMES, Aix-en-Provence. 2019. ⟨halshs-02120126⟩

Member of the editorial committee of the journal PsyCause :

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