On Wednesday, September 25, researchers Ana Maria Carneiro and Elizabeth Balbachevsky, who are part of the “Research on Research” project, participated in the seminar “Strategies and Policies for Diaspora Engagement: Cases from Brazil and Argentina,” alongside Argentine researcher Ana Margheritis.
The seminar was promoted by the International Center for Research on Migration and the Brazilian Academic Diaspora (CIIMDAB) and is part of the Preparatory Seminar Series for the IV CIIMDAB Congress (CIMDAB’2025), which will take place from July 21 to 26, 2025, in a hybrid format. Ana Margheritis and Ana Maria Carneiro delivered lectures at the event, which was moderated by Elizabeth Balbachevsky.
Margheritis is a professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and also a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). Her studies focus on geopolitics, migrations during times of crisis, and political rights in diasporas.
In her talk, the researcher provided an overview of Argentine initiatives aimed at members of the scientific diaspora. “The diaspora is not significant in terms of its numbers but in its profile. There is much to investigate. It’s a topic that invites us to explore the current state of the scientific sector and how it relates to other sectors of the diaspora as well,” she stated.
Carneiro, a member of the Laboratory for Studies on the Organization of Research and Innovation (Geopi), leads two projects researching the scientific diaspora: the Brazilian Scientific Diaspora project and Front 3 of the Research on Research and Innovation, which aims to develop methods and indicators to assess the results and impacts of national and international mobility and cooperation on the career paths and professional performance of academics and researchers.
“The movement of people is an undeniable fact in the contemporary world, including in the scientific realm. When researchers are free to move, science itself benefits,” said Carneiro, who aims to bring a new perspective on the mobility of highly qualified individuals, in which the STI diaspora is seen as diverse and with potential gains. “There are various forms of collaboration and diaspora engagement that need to be further explored and that do not imply a loss for the country of origin,” the researcher added. The lecture addressed the various diaspora engagement policies implemented by the Brazilian state over the past decades.