Graduated in philosophy and social anthropology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and with a master in migration studies (ERASMUS MUNDUS University of Amsterdam, Universidad de Deusto, University College Dublin), Alèxia is currently a doctoral candidate in social and cultural anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Barcelona) and the Universitat de Barcelona. Her PhD research focuses on the management of eligibility in the asylum reception system in Spain, through an ethnographic approach to the work of public and humanitarian actors.  

In the European Social Research Unit she works as a researcher in the projects REACT and SupportVoC and collaborates with Dr. Olga Jubany in the coordination tasks for the Migration, Diaspora and Citizenship Series. 

Recent publications include:

• Jubany, O., Rué, A. (2020) The [dis]order of the Spanish asylum reception system. In Sacramento, O., E. Challinor, & P.G. Silva, (Eds.) Quest for refuge: Reception responses from the Global North. Famalicão: Humus
• Mas Grau, J., Rué, A., Roiha, M. (2020) Hegemonías sexo-genéricas en los sistemas de asilo y protección social. El caso de las personas refugiadas LGTB+. In Intersecciones encarnadas. [Con]textos en género, identidad y diversidad. Eds: Olga Jubany/ Oscar Guasch. Publisher: Edicions Bellaterra.
• Jubany, O.; Pascualetto, M.; Rué, A. (2019) Vulnerable to the System: Torture and Migration in Spain. In Torture and Migration, Sapere l’Europa 5, Edizioni Ca’Foscari
• Nisa, M., Romogosa, M., & Rué, A. (2012). L’Àfrica com a experiència. Entrevista a Lluís Mallart. Perifèria: revista de recerca i formació en antropologia, 17(2).