Magaly Sánchez is a Fulbright Scholar 2021-2022 and Visiting Researcher at Department of Political Sciences and Global Studies at the Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES). She served as Senior Researcher and Scholar at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University (2003-2020),and at Penn University (1998-2003) after being a Professor at the Urbanism Institute of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Her work in Latin America has been characterized by the study of urban areas, metropolis and the growing informal world that has permanently coexisted in all spheres of society. She has stressed research on urban segregation, ‘barrios’, and youth violence and radicalization.
In the United States, Professor Sanchez has studied international migration to the United States, with special interest in the construction of Latino identities. She advanced research on the international migration of Venezuelan highly skilled, educated talent to the United States, as well as that of other immigrant groups. She researches the new State-Society alliances under the authoritarian regime in Venezuela, towards a criminalized State. Recently, following the complex humanitarian crisis and the progressive imposition of an authoritarian regime, she is advancing her research work on Venezuelan HSE migrants to Colombia.
