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postgraduate students
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Department of Society and Contemporary Life
The Latin American
Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Argentina)
Situated Knowledge
Sustainable Futures in Latin America
+ 17
Latin American countries
We are building a collaborative academic network that articulates, teaches, learns, and
supports public and social agendas throughout the region.
+ 300
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that contribute knowledge and innovative solutions to Latin America’s public agendas and
social problems
Research in Action
Producing situated knowledge from the public social sciences to inform action on Latin America’s social problems and agendas.
Youth Transitions to Labour Market
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Education and Vocational Training
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Digitalization, Technological Change and the Transformation of Work
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Youth, Gender, and Transforming Family Regimes
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Ana Miranda
Coordinator Department of Society and Contemporary Life
Sociologist and senior researcher specializing in youth, education, labour and social inequalities from a public sociology perspective. She has conducted academic research for almost three decades and has been a Researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She founded FLACSO Argentina’s Youth Research Program and Work Research Program, leading comparative and longitudinal studies on school-to-work transitions in Latin America. Her work has been supported by international agencies such as IDRC, ILO, UNICEF, UN Women, and the World Bank, and she has served as Visiting Professor at universities across Latin America and Europe. She has authored or edited nine books and more than sixty academic publications, and serves on editorial boards and international research networks on youth studies.
Recent publications:
Cuervo, H., Miranda, A. (2024). Social Justice and Young People: Thinking About Distribution, Recognition, and Participation in Youth Studies. In: Wyn, J., Cahill, H., Cuervo, H. (eds) Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_43-2
Corica, A. M., Otero, A. E., & Miranda, A. (2024). Youth and Education: Past, Present and Future Inequalities in Argentina. Youth and Globalization (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/25895745-bja10044
Miranda, A. & Alfredo, M. A. (2022). Transitions in the Post‐pandemic COVID‐19 Context: Building Youth Policies in the Global South. Journal of Applied Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-022-00082-8
Miranda, A., Arancibia, A. & Fainstein, C. (2022). Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths. Journal of Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2118034
Bendit, R. & Miranda, A. (2016). Turning thirty: youth transition process in Argentina in 21 century. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, v.1, n.3, pp. 96–108. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.333211869235987