Alexia Rué has a doctorate in social and cultural anthropology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a background in philosophy, social and cultural anthropology and migration studies. The doctoral research has focused on the governance of migration from the international protection reception system in Spain through an ethnographic approach to the work of public and humanitarian actors. Alèxia’s main research interests revolve around issues such as bordering, bureaucracy, labor and humanitarianism.

At the European Social Research Unit (ESRU), Alèxia works in the management and implementation of action research projects.

Recent publications include:

• Poy, A.; Rué, A.; Borelli, C. (2023) “(Des)haciendo el asilo: Etiquetajes de los flujos migratorios y categorías de refugio en disputa en el contexto español”. In: Jubany, O.; Roca, J.; Mancinelli, F. (eds.) Categorías desbordadas: cuestionando etiquetas, jerarquías y alteridades. Barcelona: Bellaterra Edicions.
• Domínguez Ruiz, I. E.; Rué, A.; Jubany, O. (2023) Police Resilience as a Multilevel Balance: Needs and Resources for Victim Support Officers. Police Quarterly, 26(2), 213-244.
• Domínguez Ruiz, I. E., Rué, A. & Jubany, O. (2023) Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work. Policing and Society.
• Borelli, C., Poy, A., & Rué, A. (2023) Governing Asylum without ‘‘Being There”: Ghost Bureaucracy, Outsourcing, and the Unreachability of the State. Social Sciences, 12(3), 169.
• Martorell Faus, M.; Ramírez-March, A.; Rué, A. (2022) L’acollida, entre el control i l’hospitalitat. Etnografies, conceptualitzacions i debats. Quaderns de l’ICA, 38(1), 1-8.
• Rué, A. (2022) “Acollim. Però com acollim?” L’acollida des del sistema estatal de protecció internacional a Espanya. Quaderns de l’ICA, 38(1), 31-51.

• Jubany, O.; Rué, A. (2022) “Whose Welfare State? A Racialised Logic to [Un]Protect Immigration and Asylum in Spain”. En Perocco, F. (ed.) Racism in and for the Welfare State. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 141-163. ISBN: 978-3-031-06070-0

• 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).