Professor Mario Pérez Monterosas was born in August 1968 in the rural town of Tetla, Tlaxcala. He is a Sociologist by the Universidad Veracruzana, Master in Rural Studies by El Colegio de Michoacán and Ph.D. in History and Regional Studies, Universidad Veracruzana.

Since 2014 he has been a Professor of the Department of Sociology, a Professor with a desirable profile Promep-SEP since 2016. He belongs to the National System of Researchers, Level I, since 2015.

He is a founding partner of Servicios Integrales para el Desarrollo Comunitario 2010; Association dedicated to strengthening women's organizational processes and the social production of housing in Veracruz. (https://www.sidecmujeres.org/)

His research specializes in the sociology of international migration from a subjective and interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on social and cultural factors, networks and interactions of rural and indigenous multisituated actors, socioemotional and identity factors of rural women, and transit of Central Americans through Mexico. Her contributions are based on a focus on socio-cultural, emotional, and inter-subjective aspects based on the experiences and meanings of the actors obtained from fieldwork in situ and in vivo.

His work is strengthened in field practices with sociology students, for the sensitization with the rural reality and the linkage with civil society organizations in northern and central Veracruz.

Projects: UAM Azcapotzalco Campus Staff. Social interactions and sociocultural change in the Mexico-United States migratory circuits of the XXI century. Approved in divisional council on April 13, 2015; Staff. Funded by Promep. Interacciones sociales y cambio sociocultural en los circuitos migratorios del centro y norte de Veracruz a los Estados Unidos a finales del siglo XX e inicios del XXI. SEP. 2015-2018.

Collaborator of the research group: "Migratory flows in the northern and southern borders of Mexico and in transit to the United States" Project funded by the Basic Science Fund Conacyt: 178078. Principal Researcher Dr. María Eugenia Anguiano Téllez. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. 2013-2018. Collaborates in research networks with Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco. With Universidad Veracruzana.

Distinctions: Membership to AMER. Since 2015. 2019-2021. June 2019. Mexico; Citizen advisor to the advisory board of the Veracruz State Human Rights Commission. 2010-2015; First place in the State Journalism Contest. Rubén Pabello Acosta A.C." Foundation, Xalapa. 2004; Fellow of the CRIM-Hewlett Foundation doctoral program in International Migration. October 2004-January 2005. CRIM-UNAM. Cuernavaca; Fellow-presenter The Second Summit of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska at Omaha. 2005. CONACYT Project: 2002-C01-41178; National Excellence Fellow for Doctoral Studies 2001-2004. CONACYT; Latin American Studies Association XXIII meeting, Washington D.C. 2001; and Fellow of national excellence for Master's studies 1995-1997. CONACYT.

Publication of indexed articles and book chapters: Universidad de Santiago de Chile, UNAM, Universidad de Zaragoza, U. De La Pampa, Argentina, Unidad Azcapotzalco de la UAM, Universidad Veracruzana, U. Guanajuato, U. Ciénega de Michoacán, COLEF, SEGOB, Plaza y Valdés, BUAP, CRIM-UNAM, U Iberoamericana. Gernika, U.A. Chapingo. Unidad Cuajimalpa de la UAM, U. Guadalajara. COLSAN, COLMICH. Author's book El Colegio de Michoacán-UAM-A, currently has 174 citations of his work.