Beatrice Scutaru is a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe, specialising in migration and refugees, childhood and youth, humanitarianism, international adoption, identity documentation, and socialist Eastern Europe.

Her research examines the intersections between state policies, international organisations and lived experience, with a particular focus on children, families and displaced populations during and after the Cold War. Her work has addressed, among other topics, refugee children in socialist Romania, international child adoption, migration and humanitarian practices, and the governance and institutionalisation of childhood.

Before joining the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she held research and teaching positions at the University of Padua, Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University. She was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua.

Email: Beatrice.scutaru@uab.cat

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