Bio
Sara is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law of Lund University, where she works on the interdisciplinary project ‘Refugee Finance: Histories, Framework and Practices (REF-FIN)’. She holds a PhD in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Nottingham, which was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and titled ‘Slavery in Refugee Status Determination Procedures in Europe: A Comparative Socio-Legal Study of Approaches to Eritrean Protection Claims’. Sara also serves as a member of the coordinating committee of the ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law and is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Spanish Bar Council. Previously, Sara worked as an Adjunct Professor of human rights at Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid), as a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab Beacon of Excellence (the world’s largest group of modern slavery researchers), as a Protection Consultant for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in London, and at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) as a legal trainee of the Americas Office in Brussels. At the Refugee Law Initiative, Sara is a Research Affiliate and a Tutor on the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies and was also a member of the editorial board of their Working Paper Series.
Outputs/impacts of work with the RLI
RLC Briefing Paper No. 1 https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/9673/; Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper No.14. https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6097/