The group was born in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and was officially recognised by the UAB in 2007, the year in which it organised the II International Congress on Ethnography and Education at the UAB.

EMIGRA is part of the materialist tradition in the social sciences from the socio-critical paradigm, with an explicit commitment to the social transfer of applied anthropology. Specifically, we work mainly on the conditions of integration of children and young people and their families and environments in the context of contemporary global dynamics between cultural diversity and social inequality, from an intersectional perspective of class, gender and origin.