1. CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN EU
The ER designed a Career Development Plan whose main objective was to secure a permanent position in the EU academy. This objective has been fulfilled, since the ER has obtained a permanent position in the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). The ER successfully applied for a Spanish Ministry of Science grant, under the programme for attracting and retaining academic talent. The project title is "Endogenous Local Development and Mobilities in Rural Areas of Spanish and Portuguese Peripherical Regions". During the length of the two-year project, the ULPGC compromises itself to create a permanent position as a Associate Professor.
2. TRAINING
2.1 ER COURSES
•Sexual and Gender Diversity. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 08/02/2022 -10/02/2022
•French at Alliance Française-Bordeaux. Level: C1. 09/05/2022-13/05/2022. Grade: 7,5/10.
•Data Management. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 24/10/2022.
2.2 MA SUPERVISION
The ER successfully co-supervised two Master students (Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability, UAB) 01/09/2021-31/08/2022
2.3 SECONDMENT IN FRANCE
The ER did a research secondment at the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne (France), at the Passages laboratory of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). During the secondment, the MSCA fellow also visited MIGRINTER, a CNRS laboratory on migration and ethnic relations (University of Poitiers). The purpose of the secondment was bibliographical research, academic exchange, data exploitation, and fieldwork planning in France.
3. PUBLICATIONS
Mendoza, C. (2023) “International immigration and entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Spanish Pyrenees”. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 72 (2), 119-131. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.72.2.2(si apre in una nuova finestra)The ER participates in an edited book (Driving local economic development: immigrant entrepreneurs and the role of religion and ethnicity, Clara Margaça ed., Springer, 2024), and he is preparing an article on local development and international immigration in the Pyrenees, with Ricard Morén-Alegret (UAB) and William Berthomière (Bordeaux-Montaigne University), to be submitted at Sociologia Ruralis.
4. EXPLOITATION AND DISSEMINATION
4.1 CONFERENCES
• 2023 EUGEO 9th Conference. Organization of the session "New ruralities and international migration" / Presentation "Local developments and international migration in the Pyrenees". Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 4-7 September 2023.
https://www.eugeobcn23.eu(si apre in una nuova finestra)• X Congreso de Migraciones. Presentation “Inmigración internacional y mercados de trabajo rurales en los Pirineos de Aragón y Cataluña”. Madrid, Instituto Ortega y Gasset, 14-16 September 2022 (with Ricard Morén-Alegret).
https://congresomigraciones2022.com/(si apre in una nuova finestra)• 2022 International Geographical Union (IGU). Organization of the session "Immigrant entrepreneurship, international mobilities and sustainable local development. in rural areas"/ Presentation “Sustainable rural development and international immigrant entrepreneurs in Girona Pyrenees (Spain)”. Paris, Université de la Sorbonne.
https://www.ugiparis2022.org(si apre in una nuova finestra)4.2 WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
The ER presented results of the project in two workshops in Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico City, 14-18/11/2022), and Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (25-27/04/2023). He has also participated in the organisation of some sessions of the 18th GRM Seminar 18th GRM Seminar Series on Migration (UAB and ICTA), February-May 2022.
4.3 POLICY BRIEFS
A policy brief with the main conclusions and some recommendation for policy makers, business associations and civil society organizations was produced in four languages.
