Dr Ana Isabel López García is one of the two successful LEaDing Fellows grantees who won Marie Curie COFUND subsidy which aims to to provide opportunities for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, and allows LEaDing Fellows’ to establish their own research programme within the framework of strategic research themes of LDE partners.
During her 2-year postdoc term at ISS, Dr Ana Isabel López García will conduct her research, entitled ‘Polarizing from abroad? The Effect of International Remittances on Redistribution: Views and Challenges in the Developing World’, on the interactions between remittances and the development of welfare states and systems in developing countries.
It has strong relevance to the cross-cutting research themes of inequality and social protection, and migration, both of which are prioritized at ISS. Her research also fits closely with that of her supervisor, Dr Andrew Fischer, whose own ERC Starting Grant funded research project is on the external financing of social policy.
Embedded in ISS research
Her research will contribute to the building of quantitative capacity in the Political Ecology research group, while complementing and benefit from the quantitative expertise in the Development Economics research group, and in this and other ways, her presence will be an excellent catalyst for cultivating more cross-research group collaboration.
In addition to working with ISS colleagues, she will interact with academic colleagues from EUR and Maastricht University (Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development), Utrecht University (Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism), Amsterdam University (Migration as Development in the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research) and others.