GRITIM (Interdisciplinary Research Group in Immigration) is a multi-departmental group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra made up of researchers from different disciplines who are interested in aspects of innovation in research and management of change processes arising from human mobility and immigration. The group's main objectives are to promote theoretical and applied research related to political and social agendas.
Human mobility is a key factor in the globalization process. The arrival and stay of immigrants in European societies is a dynamic reality that raises issues related to governance processes of social and political change, and management of diversity and social cohesion. The group aims to explore the different dynamics of this historic and global process, which must be approached from interdisciplinarity, with adequate conceptual, political, legal, social and economic tools. One of its main objectives is to contribute to the definition of a European approach in the study and management of immigration.
Basic priorities of GRITIM
Priority 1. Multidisciplinarity: Promotion of research in social sciences from a multidisciplinary perspective (politics, sociology, international relations, literature, law, economics, languages), promoting a methodological pluralism.
Priority 2. Innovation: Special interest in research on innovative aspects of the current academic debate, and to link the research agenda with the political and social agenda in Europe.
Priority 3. Transfer of knowledge: Promotion in professional and research training at the third cycle. Promotion and exchange of knowledge between academia, society and politics. Reception of prestigious researchers, young researchers with international projection and doctoral students with quality references.