Ana Inés Mallimaci Barral: PhD in Social Sciences at l’École des Hautes Études and the Buenos Aires University; Master’s degree in Methodology of Social Research from Tres de Febrero National University and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Buenos Aires University. She is a researcher at the National Council and Scientific Technical Research (Conicet) and specializes in migration, gender and transnationalism at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Buenos Aires University.