Ricard Zapata Barrero

He is a full professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM-UPF).

At the age of seven, together with his mother and two sisters, he crossed The Portbou border with a family false passport and spent his childhood in Paris, France.

Once there, he helped to organize the Spanish diaspora, learnt from his father political activities against the francoist regime and followed critically the democratic transition.

In 1989, he studied in Paris at Ecole des Hautes Etudes, with Pierre Bourdieu, Luc Boltanski and Raymond Boudon, where he obtained a Diplôme d'études Approfondies (DEA).

Ricard Zapata-Barrero is a full professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.