Mónica Ibáñez Angulo, PhD in Anthropology (1999) at the University of Chicago and currently professor of Sociology at the University of Burgos. Her research focuses on the construction of social imaginaries and the ways in which these constructions affect the everyday life of a given social group. She has studied these issues from different perspectives (Basque nationalism, Bulgarian transnational migrants) maintaining, nonetheless, a strong emphasis on migration. She has been the director of several national research projects dealing with social and labour integration of transnational migrants, and has participated in the past years as a researcher in other European and national projects. She has published many articles and several books on migration.