Ana Melisa Pardo received her Ph.D. in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her Master´s in Population and Development from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico headquarters, and her Bachelor of Social Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia. She is currently an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Geography of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Mexico since 2011. She is a co-coordinator of the Permanent Seminar Critical Perspectives on Urban-Territorial Development. Her works focus on the urban and spatial transformations derived from international migration, the impact of Mexican migration policy on foreign population. Along with the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program, she participated in a project on access to health services for the Mexican immigrant population in Minnesota. She is the principal researcher of the UNAM Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM), where she coordinates the Area of Studies on Migrations and Social Transformations and the CONACYT Chair on qualified migration. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas, Austin (1999) and a Master in Demography from the College of Mexico (1993). During the last twenty years she has worked on issues related to US-Mexico migration, economic and social impact of migrant remittances, debates on the link between migration and development, skilled migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, and return migration. She has published more than seventy essays on these topics. Her most outstanding books are: "Return in the migratory processes of Latin America: concepts, debates, evidences" (2015), "Working conditions in times of crisis: an analysis of the qualified migration of Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States" (2015) "Spatial analysis of remittances, return migration and regional growth in Mexico" (2014), "The Practice of Research on Migration and Mobilities "(2014)," Remittances and Tax Collection in Mexico "(2011)," Qualified Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Wasted Capacities? "(2010)," Bringing It Back Home. Remittances to Mexico from Migrant Workers in the United States "(1993). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Network of Migration and Development and of the Academic Technical Committee of the Migration and Mobility Thematic Network (Migrāre). She was president of the Latin American Population Association (2011-2012) and Coordinator of the UNAM Seminar on Migration Studies (2011-2016). It belongs to the National System of Researchers level II.