Orlandina de Oliveira

Orlandina de Oliveira (born 1943) is a Brazilian-born, naturalized Mexican sociologist and professor. Her areas of expertise are on social inequality, the status of women and youth, and the dynamics of labor markets. She has earned numerous honors for her academic research from international universities including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Harvard University.

Biography Orlandina de Oliveira Barbosa was born on 25 April 1943 in Araguari, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She earned a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Politics in 1966 from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and in 1968 obtained a Master's in sociology from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociaes (FLACSO) (Latin American Social Sciences Institute) of Santiago, Chile.

During 1969, de Oliveira worked as a research associate at FLACSO's in Santiago and in 1970 moved to Mexico. She began a professorship in February 1970 at the Center for Economic and Demographic Studies at El Colegio de México (COLMEX). In 1994 she was a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In November 1998 she taught a seminar entitled "Démodynamiques" at the Institut national d'études démographiques in Paris.

From 2000 to 2002, de Oliveira was a researcher with the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development working on research about globalization and its effects on the employment of women. She returned to the University of Paris in the academic year 2001–2002, when she was honored as the Alfonso Reyes Chair for the Institut des Hautes Etudes de L'Amerique Latine, Paris. She was honored in the 2003–2004 academic year as the Madero Visiting Scholar for the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2004 to 2005, she was visiting researcher at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. de Oliveira, Orlandina and Minor Mora Salas. "Las vicisitudes de la inclusión laboral en los albores del siglo XXI: trayectorias ocupacionales y desigualdades sociales entre jóvenes profesionistas mexicanos" Estudios Sociológicos (México), Vol. 30, No. 88, January–April 2012 (in Spanish) de Oliveira, Orlandina and Marina Ariza. "Viejos y nuevos retos de la precariedad en el sector terciario, 1995-2010" (coautora ), in Rabell Romero, Cecilia (editor) Los mexicanos. Un balance del cambio demográfico, FCE: México (2014) (in Spanish)