Experts Database

Jenna Hennebry is an Associate Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Coordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Program, and Associate Dean of the School of International Policy and Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is Co-Founder of the International Migration Research Centre and the Migration Worker Health Project, and Founder of the Gender+Migration Hub funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Jenna is a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees Subcommittee on Migrant Workers and the UN Expert Working Group on Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration. She is an Expert Advisor to the Auditor General of Canada, Performance Audit on Temporary Foreign Farm Workers – Covid-19, a member of the UN Network on Migration’s Thematic Working Group 4 on Bilateral Labour Agreements as well as the newly formed Thematic Priority Group 7 on Gender. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Migration Data Centre (GMDC) and the Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Advisers, both of the IOM.

Jenna has carried out globally comparative research on labour migration governance, gender and migrant worker rights and health, for over 15 years. She has consulted for UN Women, IOM, UNODC, and multiple government agencies. Her work has been funded by national and international agencies and governments, and it has been published in English and Spanish in journals such as International Migration, the Journal on International Migration and Integration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others. Her work has informed policy recommendations for gender-responsive and rights-based approaches to labour migration governance at local, provincial, national, regional and international levels.

Professor Yolanda Hernández-Albújar works at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, in Seville where she teaches courses in Cultural Anthropology, Migration and Gender. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master´s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She explores, from a cultural perspective, issues of identity, migration and gender. She has conducted ethnographic research in Syrian refugee camps in Beirut, where she interviewed refugee women to document their experiences of displacement. She is now involved in two research projects: one studying the impact that GBV has upon indigenous women in Honduras and their intention to migrate. The second one is on the psychosocial well-being of left-behind children and their caretakers in Honduras.

Erika Herrera Rosales is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of Warwick. Her PhD research addresses the consequences of the relationships between Central American migrants and NGOs. Drawing from critical perspectives on humanitarianism and bordering practices she explores the experiences of vulnerable individuals. She is interested in topics of global migration, innovative methodologies and colonial legacies.

Researcher in Political Philosophy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, with an emphasis on Migration Ethics and Theories of Democracy

Historian and and lawyer. Expert in gender, migration and trafficking human for sexual explotation.
PhD candidate at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. Title of the research: “The prostitution of Chinese women in Spain. Analysis of supply and demand. The case of Madrid ”.
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I'm a researcher at Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University. I am currently leading a project on home care for elderly immigrants by their relatives in Sweden and a literature review project on working conditions of eldercare workers. Previous researches included working conditions of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, role of worker centres for organising of low-waged, immigrant and female workers, and role of civil society in global governance.