Carolina Stefoni is a sociologist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (1996). She holds a Master's degree in Cultural Studies and Sociology from the University of Birmingham, UK (1999) and a PhD in Sociology from Alberto Hurtado University, Chile (2013). She is currently a Full Professor at the University of Tarapacá, Chile, director of the PhD program in Social Sciences at the same university, and an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES). Her research areas include human mobility, migration and borders in Latin America, gender and migration, coexistence, and discrimination. She has sponsored six postdoctoral researchers, directed three doctoral dissertations, 20 master's theses, and 16 undergraduate theses. She is currently a researcher on the international project "Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective (2021-2027)," directed by Harald Bauder and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; and a researcher on the project "Transnational Caregiving in Protracted Humanitarian Crisis Migration: Syrian Migrants in Switzerland and Venezuelan Migrants in Chile and Peru" (2023-2027), directed by Dr. Myrian Carbajal and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Carolina directs the project "Spaces of Recognition and Welcome: The Construction of the Commons in Migratory Contexts (2025-2029)," funded by the National Research and Development Agency (ANID), and is the alternate director of the ANID Millennium Nucleus project, "Insecurity and Urban Cohesion" (2025-2028).