is Professor of Sociology at the University of Valle, Colombia. After completing his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews in 2012, he worked as a temporary Lecturer in Social Anthropology and as a Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and held Work Fellowship at IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He conducted extensive ethnographic research among Slovak, Czech and Hungarian Romani groups, exploring issues related to different forms of migration from East Central Europe to Great Britain and Canada (and back).