Marc Alcalà is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) since October 2023. His research focuses on the identities and sense of belonging of migrants from Korea in Spain, and is supervised by Miranda Lubbers and Jihye Kim, lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). Marc has a full predoctoral "Joan Oró" scholarship (FI) from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
In 2023, he worked as a lab manager at the COALESCE lab and on the ERC Advanced Grant project PATCHWORK ("A Network Science Approach to Social Cohesion in European Societies"), where he interviewed people from Barcelona and its outskirts.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Ethnography from the University of Barcelona. Additionally, he has previously participated as a research assistant in the Religious Map of Catalonia at the Department of Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in the Volkswagen Foundation international research project INCLUSIVITY ("Inclusivity norms to counter polarization in European societies") at the same Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
In 2023, he received the honorable mention in the 27th edition of the Young Sociologists Competition (Catalan Association of Sociology) for his bachelor's thesis "Use of Catalan and allophone immigration in Catalonia. Case study of young people of Maghreb descent". He has already published in the Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia and the Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya.
