Alisa Petroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 174745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alisa Petroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Petroff |
| SIGNATURE | PETROFF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7779-8426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Motherhood among immigrant entrepreneurs in Chile: Tensions and Coping Strategies in Digital Entrepreneurship
Amidst the digital transformation that has accelerated gig work globally, this article tackles the digital entrepreneurship experiences of immigrant mothers in Chile, a demographical group uniquely impacted by the digitalization trend and the COVID-19 pandemic's shift towards remote work. More specifically, it addresses the underexplored nexus of digital entrepreneurship, migration and gender, and how digital platform-mediated self-employment aid…
Educational Achievement Among Children of Latin American Immigrants in Spain
Crowd work in STEM‐related fields: A window of opportunity from a gender perspective
After the Global Financial Crisis (2008) many people found new job opportunities on crowd platforms. The COVID‐19 crisis reinforced this trend and virtual work is expected to increase. Although the working conditions of individuals engaged on these platforms is an emerging topic, of research, the existing literature tends to overlook the gendered dimension of the gig economy. Following a quantitative approach, based on the statistical analysis of…
Generational cohorts versus national origin: Explaining the educational attainment among children of Latin American immigrants in Spain
Over the last 25 years, Spain has experienced a significant increase of Latin American immigrants, which has raised questions about their children’s adaptation process. Yet, there is little evidence on the factors that explain school success or failure among this group. This paper aims to fill this gap by using data from the Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain (ILSEG is its Spanish acronym). The findings show that the children of…
A Mixed‐Method Analysis of Remittance Scripts Among Bolivian Immigrants in Spain
The use of mixed methods to deal with the complexity of remittance motivations is still infrequent. This paper uses statistical and qualitative data and provides evidence on the conceptual framework for understanding remittance behaviour proposed by the scholar Jørgen Carling. Carling's ‘remittance scripts’ understand remittances as multifaceted transactions and enrich the assessment of the relationship between remittances and development at orig…
A Multilevel Qualitative Perspective to Gendered Life Course, Socialization, and STEM Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Spain
The present study examines the five principles of the life course perspective—life span development, time and place, agency, timing, and linked lives—and their interplay on the experiences of 26 emerging adults (11 males and 15 females) during their transition from college completion into the STEM labor force in Spain. Findings derived from the in-depth interviews focus on the multilevel challenges these young people face and the set of strategie…
Framing inclusion: The media treatment of irregular immigrants' right to health care in Spain
With the passing of Royal Decree-Law 16/2012, Spain's national health system switched from a model defined by universal and free health care principles, to a private insurance system that excluded large population groups. Based on a qualitative research design, this paper examines the media treatment of undocumented immigrants’ prerogatives to public health care in Spain (2012–2018). The analysis of 234 articles, drawn from three major Spanish ne…
Planning to Go Back Home Because of the Economic Crisis? Evidence from the Short-Term Return Intentions of Bolivian Migrants in Spain
On the basis of data collected by the RETTRANS survey (2011–2012) on Bolivian migrants living in Spain, this article aims to identify the influence of the 2008 economic crisis on the determinants marking the migrants’ return intention. In this regard, there is a need to incorporate the concept of double embeddedness based on migrants’ social networks (meso level), the way migration is imbricated in persons’ lives (micro level); and how, at a macr…
Oportunidades y tensiones de la protección social más allá del marco nacional: La asistencia sanitaria transfronteriza en el contexto español
Sufrimiento social y migraciones de retorno: Una propuesta conceptual
El artículo pone de relieve cómo el sufrimiento social, concebido como manifestación de la opresión social y la injusticia incorporada en el individuo, posee atributos que atraviesan las distintas etapas del retorno migratorio, etapas que se encuentran marcadas por procesos transnacionales y multilocales. A tal efecto, el Modelo VIA -compuesto por los ejes analíticos de vulnerabilidad, incertidumbre y asistencia- permite describir, interpretar y …
Social welfare grey zones: How and Why Subnational Actors Provide When Nations Do Not
In an era where even citizenship is not a guarantee of access to the welfare state, can non-citizens gain access to social protection? Using health care as a lens, and the United States and Spain as cases, we find that non-citizens do have access to social protection via what we call ‘grey zones’, namely points of disagreement between national and local governments that create opportunities for non-citizens. Grey zones are possible due to process…
Return Intentions of Bolivian Migrants During the Spanish Economic Crisis: The Interplay of Macro-Meso and Micro Factors
Una aproximación a los métodos mixtos a partir de las trayectorias migratorias de profesionales rumanos en Barcelona
Two are the main aims of the paper: to highlight the contributions of sequential mixed method designs in the study of migrations, more specifically in the study of migratory trajectories of skilled Romanian professionals in Barcelona and explain the trajectories of a profile of immigrants that in the Spanish context must be understood from a double exceptionality. Based on a design that includes an online survey to 217 Romanians (belonging to a p…
Training, labour and migratory trajectories of skilled Romanians in Spain: Key elements explaining successful careers
Based on a qualitative approach (30 biographical interviews and 30 life satisfaction charts), this paper aims to frame the intra-EU skilled migration patterns into the life course perspective. In addressing this broad aim, the paper focuses on reconstructing the training, labour and migratory trajectories of skilled Romanians with tertiary education acquired in Romania, with previous labour trajectories in Romania, working in Barcelona’s IT, fina…
Turning points and transitions in the migratory trajectories of skilled Romanian immigrants in Spain
The academic interest on skilled migration patterns has increased at the same time as the flows of skilled migrants around the world. Despite this tendency, there is still a lack of knowledge regarding the migratory projects of particular ethnic communities or in specific receiving contexts. The current paper examines the migratory experiences of Romanian professionals and the extent to which the incorporation into the Spanish labor market repres…
Reversing the brain drain: Evidence from a Romanian brain networking organization
The Upward Occupational Mobility of Immigrant Women in Spain
This paper studies the upward occupational mobility trajectories of immigrant women performing unskilled work as a first job in Spain. The goals of the research are to go beyond the debate that focuses on the structural elements that condition their labour trajectories in Spain and to include both personal factors and the way in which these women use their agency in order to shape their labour trajectories. Factores explicativos de la diversifica…
The Upward Occupational Mobility of Immigrant Women in Spain
This paper studies the upward occupational mobility trajectories of immigrant women performing unskilled work as a first job in Spain. The goals of the research are to go beyond the debate that focuses on the structural elements that condition their labour trajectories in Spain and to include both personal factors and the way in which these women use their agency in order to shape their labour trajectories. Factores explicativos de la diversifica…
Generational cohorts versus national origin: Explaining the educational attainment among children of Latin American immigrants in Spain
Over the last 25 years, Spain has experienced a significant increase of Latin American immigrants, which has raised questions about their children’s adaptation process. Yet, there is little evidence on the factors that explain school success or failure among this group. This paper aims to fill this gap by using data from the Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain (ILSEG is its Spanish acronym). The findings show that the children of…
Framing inclusion: The media treatment of irregular immigrants' right to health care in Spain
With the passing of Royal Decree-Law 16/2012, Spain's national health system switched from a model defined by universal and free health care principles, to a private insurance system that excluded large population groups. Based on a qualitative research design, this paper examines the media treatment of undocumented immigrants’ prerogatives to public health care in Spain (2012–2018). The analysis of 234 articles, drawn from three major Spanish ne…
Social welfare grey zones: How and Why Subnational Actors Provide When Nations Do Not
In an era where even citizenship is not a guarantee of access to the welfare state, can non-citizens gain access to social protection? Using health care as a lens, and the United States and Spain as cases, we find that non-citizens do have access to social protection via what we call ‘grey zones’, namely points of disagreement between national and local governments that create opportunities for non-citizens. Grey zones are possible due to process…
Return Intentions of Bolivian Migrants During the Spanish Economic Crisis: The Interplay of Macro-Meso and Micro Factors
Training, labour and migratory trajectories of skilled Romanians in Spain: Key elements explaining successful careers
Based on a qualitative approach (30 biographical interviews and 30 life satisfaction charts), this paper aims to frame the intra-EU skilled migration patterns into the life course perspective. In addressing this broad aim, the paper focuses on reconstructing the training, labour and migratory trajectories of skilled Romanians with tertiary education acquired in Romania, with previous labour trajectories in Romania, working in Barcelona’s IT, fina…
Turning points and transitions in the migratory trajectories of skilled Romanian immigrants in Spain
The academic interest on skilled migration patterns has increased at the same time as the flows of skilled migrants around the world. Despite this tendency, there is still a lack of knowledge regarding the migratory projects of particular ethnic communities or in specific receiving contexts. The current paper examines the migratory experiences of Romanian professionals and the extent to which the incorporation into the Spanish labor market repres…
Reversing the brain drain: Evidence from a Romanian brain networking organization
The Upward Occupational Mobility of Immigrant Women in Spain
This paper studies the upward occupational mobility trajectories of immigrant women performing unskilled work as a first job in Spain. The goals of the research are to go beyond the debate that focuses on the structural elements that condition their labour trajectories in Spain and to include both personal factors and the way in which these women use their agency in order to shape their labour trajectories. Factores explicativos de la diversifica…
Turning points and transitions in the migratory trajectories of skilled Romanian immigrants in Spain
The academic interest on skilled migration patterns has increased at the same time as the flows of skilled migrants around the world. Despite this tendency, there is still a lack of knowledge regarding the migratory projects of particular ethnic communities or in specific receiving contexts. The current paper examines the migratory experiences of Romanian professionals and the extent to which the incorporation into the Spanish labor market repres…
Reversing the brain drain: Evidence from a Romanian brain networking organization
Una aproximación a los métodos mixtos a partir de las trayectorias migratorias de profesionales rumanos en Barcelona
Two are the main aims of the paper: to highlight the contributions of sequential mixed method designs in the study of migrations, more specifically in the study of migratory trajectories of skilled Romanian professionals in Barcelona and explain the trajectories of a profile of immigrants that in the Spanish context must be understood from a double exceptionality. Based on a design that includes an online survey to 217 Romanians (belonging to a p…
Training, labour and migratory trajectories of skilled Romanians in Spain: Key elements explaining successful careers
Based on a qualitative approach (30 biographical interviews and 30 life satisfaction charts), this paper aims to frame the intra-EU skilled migration patterns into the life course perspective. In addressing this broad aim, the paper focuses on reconstructing the training, labour and migratory trajectories of skilled Romanians with tertiary education acquired in Romania, with previous labour trajectories in Romania, working in Barcelona’s IT, fina…
Oportunidades y tensiones de la protección social más allá del marco nacional: La asistencia sanitaria transfronteriza en el contexto español
Sufrimiento social y migraciones de retorno: Una propuesta conceptual
El artículo pone de relieve cómo el sufrimiento social, concebido como manifestación de la opresión social y la injusticia incorporada en el individuo, posee atributos que atraviesan las distintas etapas del retorno migratorio, etapas que se encuentran marcadas por procesos transnacionales y multilocales. A tal efecto, el Modelo VIA -compuesto por los ejes analíticos de vulnerabilidad, incertidumbre y asistencia- permite describir, interpretar y …
Social welfare grey zones: How and Why Subnational Actors Provide When Nations Do Not
In an era where even citizenship is not a guarantee of access to the welfare state, can non-citizens gain access to social protection? Using health care as a lens, and the United States and Spain as cases, we find that non-citizens do have access to social protection via what we call ‘grey zones’, namely points of disagreement between national and local governments that create opportunities for non-citizens. Grey zones are possible due to process…
Return Intentions of Bolivian Migrants During the Spanish Economic Crisis: The Interplay of Macro-Meso and Micro Factors
Planning to Go Back Home Because of the Economic Crisis? Evidence from the Short-Term Return Intentions of Bolivian Migrants in Spain
On the basis of data collected by the RETTRANS survey (2011–2012) on Bolivian migrants living in Spain, this article aims to identify the influence of the 2008 economic crisis on the determinants marking the migrants’ return intention. In this regard, there is a need to incorporate the concept of double embeddedness based on migrants’ social networks (meso level), the way migration is imbricated in persons’ lives (micro level); and how, at a macr…
A Mixed‐Method Analysis of Remittance Scripts Among Bolivian Immigrants in Spain
The use of mixed methods to deal with the complexity of remittance motivations is still infrequent. This paper uses statistical and qualitative data and provides evidence on the conceptual framework for understanding remittance behaviour proposed by the scholar Jørgen Carling. Carling's ‘remittance scripts’ understand remittances as multifaceted transactions and enrich the assessment of the relationship between remittances and development at orig…
A Multilevel Qualitative Perspective to Gendered Life Course, Socialization, and STEM Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Spain
The present study examines the five principles of the life course perspective—life span development, time and place, agency, timing, and linked lives—and their interplay on the experiences of 26 emerging adults (11 males and 15 females) during their transition from college completion into the STEM labor force in Spain. Findings derived from the in-depth interviews focus on the multilevel challenges these young people face and the set of strategie…
Framing inclusion: The media treatment of irregular immigrants' right to health care in Spain
With the passing of Royal Decree-Law 16/2012, Spain's national health system switched from a model defined by universal and free health care principles, to a private insurance system that excluded large population groups. Based on a qualitative research design, this paper examines the media treatment of undocumented immigrants’ prerogatives to public health care in Spain (2012–2018). The analysis of 234 articles, drawn from three major Spanish ne…
Educational Achievement Among Children of Latin American Immigrants in Spain
Crowd work in STEM‐related fields: A window of opportunity from a gender perspective
After the Global Financial Crisis (2008) many people found new job opportunities on crowd platforms. The COVID‐19 crisis reinforced this trend and virtual work is expected to increase. Although the working conditions of individuals engaged on these platforms is an emerging topic, of research, the existing literature tends to overlook the gendered dimension of the gig economy. Following a quantitative approach, based on the statistical analysis of…
Generational cohorts versus national origin: Explaining the educational attainment among children of Latin American immigrants in Spain
Over the last 25 years, Spain has experienced a significant increase of Latin American immigrants, which has raised questions about their children’s adaptation process. Yet, there is little evidence on the factors that explain school success or failure among this group. This paper aims to fill this gap by using data from the Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain (ILSEG is its Spanish acronym). The findings show that the children of…
Motherhood among immigrant entrepreneurs in Chile: Tensions and Coping Strategies in Digital Entrepreneurship
Amidst the digital transformation that has accelerated gig work globally, this article tackles the digital entrepreneurship experiences of immigrant mothers in Chile, a demographical group uniquely impacted by the digitalization trend and the COVID-19 pandemic's shift towards remote work. More specifically, it addresses the underexplored nexus of digital entrepreneurship, migration and gender, and how digital platform-mediated self-employment aid…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works)