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Catarina Reis Oliveira
Biography
Catarina Reis Oliveira is Assistant Professor in Data Analysis and Sociology of Migration at Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), Lisbon University. She holds a PhD in Sociology and a MA in Statistics and Data Analysis. Her main areas of research are Sociology of Migration, integration of immigrants and its statistical monitoring. Since 2014, she is the scientific coordinator of the series collection “Immigration in Numbers” of the Portuguese Observatory for Migration, and the author of the Statistical Reports on Indicators of Immigrants Integration of Portugal (the most important publication of official data on immigrants in Portugal with statistical and administrative data), annually published. She was the Executive Director of the Observatory for Migration between 2005 and 2024, and its Scientific Director between 2016 and 2024. As advisor of three High Commissioners for Migration (ACM) in Portugal and the Head of the Unit of Research, Statistics, and International Relations of ACM, between 2005 and 2015, she was involved in the discussion and evaluation of several policies and services targeting immigrants. In 2018 and 2019 she was part of a working group designated to work with the National Statistical Institute (INE) on the feasibility to collect ethnic and racial data in population Census in Portugal. In 2019 and 2020 she participated in the Statistical Council (the entity of the State which guides and coordinates the National Statistical System) on behalf of the Ministry of the Presidency. Until 2005 she was Lecturer in the Sociology Department of the New University of Lisbon, namely in a post-graduate course on Migration, Ethnic Minorities and Transnationalism. In 2000 she received an academic award on Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in the Contemporary society by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and in 2022 she was distinguished with an Honourable Mention in the 6th Edition of the António Dornelas Award, by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the only work about migration among the winners.
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