Marcela Cerrutti has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin with specialization in Population Studies. She was a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center. Currently she is Principal Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research at the Center for Population Studies (CENEP) in Argentina and Full Professor at the National University of San Martín. She was director of CENEP and Vice-President of the Latin American Association of Population. She has conducted more than twenty research projects and has been consultant for several international organizations (IOM, UNFPA, ECLAC, CELADE, UNDP, UNICEF, IADB, and PAHO) and the Argentinean Government (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, City Government of Buenos Aires). Her research interests include Intra-regional migrations in South America; gender, family and migration; return migration; migration policies and human rights.