Lab
INMIX Lab
Institution: Autonomous University of Barcelona
Department: Departamento de Antropología Social y Cultural
About the lab
The INMIX is a consolidated research team with experienced researchers trained in different disciplines in the social sciences and with an interdisciplinary approach that combines different research methodologies and analytical perspectives. Its areas of research are international migration, interethnic relations, and the social integration processes of immigrants and their descendants. One of its main focuses is the comprehensive study of 'mixedness', an encompassing concept that refers to sociodemographic patterns of intermarriage (across cultural, religious, racial or class boundaries), social attitudes towards mixing, everyday culturally hybrid spaces, socialization and identity processes of the descendants of mixed couples, mixed social and cultural capital, racism and discrimination.
Featured research (20)
Presentation at the 18th EASA Biennial Conference in Barcelona, July 2024:
“Othering, Racialization and Discrimination Beyond Migration: Spanish Roma and Ethnoracial Mixing”
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2024/p/14800
Invited Open Seminar MAUMIS, May 2024:
“La significación social de la mixticidad: divisiones, márgenes e intersecciones étnico-raciales”
https://x.com/dafitsURV/status/1792865302302130353
This topical short documentary, Directed by Prof. Dan Rodríguez-García and produced by the INMIX-UAB (Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion), features interviews with multiethnic and multiracial youth living in Catalonia, Spain, who talk about their mixed heritage and its meaning for them, their identity and sense of belonging, and their experiences of discrimination and agency. Through these narratives, MIXED VOICES reveals that the positive, empowering experiences of mixedness—a growing reality in Spain as well as across the globe—can coexist with negative stereotypes and prejudices and the continued stigmatization and discrimination of racialized groups, who are more constrained in their identity options. In this way, the documentary highlights the socially transformative aspects of mixedness while alerting us to persistent social divisions that hinder social inclusion and cohesion.
MIXED VOICES was produced as part of the MIXED-YOUTH Research Project (“Social Relations and Identity Processes of Children of Mixed Unions: Mixedness—Between Inclusion and Social Constraints,” CSO2015-63962-R), for which a total of 152 Spanish-born individuals from very diverse ancestries were interviewed.
The material for this documentary was recorded in 2020 in Catalonia, Spain, in the midst of a full lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each participant self-recorded their video, which may have affected the sound and image quality in some cases. All participants have given their consent to use their recordings for the purposes of this documentary.
For more information about the documentary, click on “Show more” under the Youtube video screen.
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Youtube link: https://youtu.be/RYHKCaERcFs
On Sept. 28, 2022, member of INMIX-UAB Dr. Cristina Rodríguez-Reche participated in the STAND-UP seminar (Standing up against hate in the EU Project, co-funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice and Consumers) at the European Parliament, talking about islamophobia and hate crimes.
Lab head
Department
- Departamento de Antropología Social y Cultural
About Dan Rodríguez-García
- Dan is tenured Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the INMIX—Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His areas of research are international migration, interethnic relations, social cohesion, identity and mixedness. He has been a Guest Editor for The ANNALS, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Genealogy. He is currently the PI of the R&D project GITMIX. https://webs.uab.cat/dan/
