Blanca Garcés is a Senior Research Fellow in the area of migrations and research coordinator at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). She has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and a B.A. in History and Anthropology from the University of Barcelona.  She has focused her research on the study of migratory and asylum policies from a comparative perspective, with a particular emphasis on the Netherlands, Malaysia, Spain, and Catalonia. She has published articles on regulation policies for labour migration, irregular migration, integration policies, reception systems, and European asylum and border policies.  She has recently coordinated the project BRIDGES (funded by the H2020 programme of the European Commission) which assesses the causes and impacts of migration narratives within a context of rising politicisation and polarisation in Europe. She is a member of the European network IMISCOE and of the editorial college of the Migration Politics Journal.