Zenia Hellgren
Associate Professor (AQU)
Doctor of Sociology (Stockholm University)
Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (UPF) and Barcelona School of Management (BSM), and Senior Associate Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU Social Research).
Member of the research groups GRITIM-UPF and GRETA
Member of the Barcelona City Council's Anti-Racist Advisory Council
Presentation
I am a sociologist and migration scholar with an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, combining perspectives from, primarily, sociology and political theory. My research addresses the inclusion/exclusion of migrants and ethnic minorities in European societies. In this framework, I empirically investigate issues such as the policies and practices of integration and diversity management; discrimination and social boundaries; racism and anti-racism in education; job conditions and coping strategies of female migrant domestic workers; and access to social membership among undocumented migrants. Over the past ten years, I have increasingly developed an Action Research approach. My work aims to be transformative both at the academic and societal levels, and I collaborate regularly with policymakers and organized civil society to extend the impact of my work beyond academia. I have designed and led numerous international research projects and regularly publish my work in high-impact journals and books.
New publications
Hellgren, Z. (2026). Research as Resistance: Antiracist Counternarratives and Transformative Action. Metapolis, 6 (2).
Hellgren, Z. (2026). Towards a common research agenda? Addressing political and epistemological tensions around scholarship on racial/ethnic discrimination. In A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and Adjustment, eds. K. Bruce Newbold and Mary Crea-Arsenio. Edward Elgar Publishing
Zenia Hellgren
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Edifici Jaume I (campus de la Ciutadella)
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
