Dr. Carolina Ramírez

Carolina Ramírez is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Universidad de Chile. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Research and a PhD in Visual Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include migration and ageing, diversity and conviviality in urban space, care in transnational and local contexts, and qualitative, ethnographic, and visual methodologies.

She is currently Principal Investigator of the project Ageing as a Migrant ‘in Place’ of Destination (FONDECYT Regular, 2025–2029), which explores life trajectories, social connections, senses of home, and meanings of migrant old age among long-settled South–South migrant women. She is also Co-Investigator of the project Transnational Caregiving in Protracted Humanitarian Crisis Migration: Syrian Migrants in Switzerland and Venezuelan Migrants in Chile and Peru (Swiss National Science Foundation, 2024–2028), which examines how adult children who emigrated under conditions of humanitarian crisis sustain care for their ageing parents across borders. Her visiting fellowship at DeZIM further develops the comparative dimensions of this research agenda, with a focus on care and ageing in South–South and South–North migration contexts.