Oswaldo Truzzi
Oswaldo Truzzi is Full Professor at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), where he teaches in the Graduate Program in Sociology. He earned a B.S. in Production Engineering from the University of São Paulo (1979), a Graduate Certificate in Public Management from HEC (École des Hautes Études Commerciales, 1983), an M.B.A. from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas–São Paulo (1985), and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Campinas (1993). As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, he was affiliated with the University of Chicago in 1992, where he also completed postdoctoral research appointments in 1996, 2000, and 2006. From 1990 to 2002, he worked as a researcher at the Institute for...
The multidisciplinary field of Migration Studies: relevance and research perspectives on the topic
Over the decades, both in Brazil and abroad, the field of Migration Studies has established itself as a quintessentially multidisciplinary arena, bringing together academic contributions from diverse disciplinary traditions. This lecture aims to explore these various contributions—guided by distinct research approaches—and to highlight the topic´s relevance, both past and present.