María Sánchez-Domínguez (Universidad Complutense PhD in Sociology, 2010) is a Researcher and Full PhD Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. My primary research line revolves around the question of how social stratification affects people’s life course. In this vein, both my M.A. thesis and my 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, I have 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 intergenerational transfers in developed countries. I also have 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, I have collaborated with a variety of outstanding scholars based at excellent institutions such as the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) (Umeå University, Sweden), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) (The Hague), the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Genève University, or the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (University of Oxford). Currently, I lead 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.