Border Militarisation and Immigration Detention in Mexico
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Alethia Fernández de la Reguera
- Host
- Latin American Centre (Unit)
- Series
- Latin American Main Seminar Series
- Location
- 1 Church Walk - LAC Main Seminar Room, LAC Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6LY, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Alethia Fernández de la Reguera is a Departmental Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, where she coordinates the project Border Militarisation in Transit Countries: A Global South–Global East Perspective. Over the past decade, she served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). From 2023 to 2025, she was a Visiting Fellow at Warwick Law School, where she launched the project The Effects of Border Militarisation in Mexico and Poland on the International Protection and Human Rights of Migrants. In 2021, she received UNAM's National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars in the field of Social Science Research. Her most recent book, Inside the Bureaucracy of Immigration Detention: Disgust, Contempt, and Humiliation, has recently been published by Routledge. She is also Affiliate Faculty at the University of Arizona, where she teaches in the M.A. Program in Human Rights Practice. She is a member of the Border Criminologies Network at the University of Oxford, the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) Network at the University of Warwick, and the Comparative Analysis on International Migration and Displacement in the Americas Network (CAMINAR). She also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Feminist Legal Studies and Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México.
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