Licence in Sociology (1975) and Masters in Sociology (1977) by René Descartes University (Paris V); BA in Political Science and Sociology (1979) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a doctorate in sociology (1998) from the University of Granada. Develops teaching at the University of Granada since 1979 Currently EU is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Granada. He is also a researcher at Group Research Laboratory for Intercultural Studies (since 1993) and the Institute of Migration since its inception in 2009, both from the University of Granada.

His main research interests focus on the construction of difference and the processes of social and cultural exclusion in migration contexts, in the media and in school. He has taught graduate courses and training at the University of Granada and foreign universities on issues related to migration and the presence of minorities in the Spanish society. He has, also, intercultural training courses targeting different professionals: teachers, social and labor intercultural mediators and social workers.

Among his works (in collaboration) include: Women in the Andalusian education system (1992); Sociology of Education. Old and new issues (1994); Education: integration or exclusion of cultural diversity? (1997); Multiculturalism and education in the nineties: a critical view (2001), and Reading for Intercultural Education (with Francisco Javier Garcia Castaño, 1999), published in the same Publisher.