Alethia Fernández de la Reguera

Alethia is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Coordinator of the National Laboratory on Diversities at UNAM. She specialises in gender and migration, immigration detention, bureaucracies, gender-based violence and women's autonomy. She is a visiting scholar at the School of Law of the University of Warwick with the project "The effects of border militarisation in Mexico and Poland on the international protection and human rights of migrants". She is an Affiliate Professor at the College of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses on gender-based violence. In 2021, she received the National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars 2021 in social science research. She recently became a member of Border Criminologies.