Dr. Maria Amigo

Biography

Maria Florencia Amigo is an anthropologist and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research predominantly encompasses cross-cultural understandings of childhood, education, work, and migration in diverse contexts. Amigo completed her undergraduate studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to Australia to pursue her doctoral studies at the University of Sydney, where her dissertation focused on children’s work in rural Indonesia. After completing her PhD in 2005, she was appointed as a post-doctoral fellow at Macquarie University's Children and Families Research Centre. Her interest lies in the implications of education for children from migrant families and their integration into Australian society. She was also appointed as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, emphasizing experiential learning in social research. Additionally, she served as the academic director for the PACE initiative to enhance university-community engagement. Her work aims to inform policy and practice to foster positive societal transformations, particularly regarding higher education's role in employability and work readiness for young people.

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