Title: Female Migrant Journeys: Criminalization Immigration Policies and Human Rights Violations at the Southern Border of Mexico
Associate Researcher at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she also coordinates the National Laboratory on Diversities. Mostly, her research focuses on “Rights, Migration and Mobility”, the study of gender immigration policies, institutional violence and immigration detention processes.
She coordinates the Erasmus M.A. Program “Euroculture” at UNAM and for the last five years has been a guest scholar at the Erasmus M.A. Program “Transnational Migrations” at the University of Lille, France. She obtained her Ph.D. with honors in Humanistic Studies from Tecnológico de Monterrey, with a dissertation titled “Autonomy processes for decision-making of Mexican female migrant workers returning from the U.S.” She holds an M.A. in European Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a B.A. in International Relations from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Currently, she is an elected member of the Conacyt-National System of Researchers. She collaborates with the Universitary Seminar on Internal Displacement, Migration, Exile and Repatriation at UNAM. Also, she is part of the UNESCO-Tec Chair on Ethics and Peace Studies and a board member of the Institute for Women in Migration based in Mexico City.
Her lines of research include Gender and migration, Immigration detention processes, Gender violence, and Autonomy of women. Her themes of interest are Institutions and gender order, Subjectivities and public policies, and Quantitative methodologies for the study of migration.