Bio
Júlia graduated in Law in 2012 in Brazil, where she completed different internships and volunteer positions in varied fields of law. She holds an LL.M in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy. In Geneva, she worked as a legal researcher at the human rights NGO Alkarama and as an associate at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Before joining the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), she also worked as a legal advocate for asylum seekers and refugees at Asylum Access Thailand in Bangkok and as a legal assistant at the Refugee Advice and Casework Services in Sydney.
Júlia became a PhD candidate at the VUB in October 2018. While developing her research on undesirable unreturnables, she contributes to multiple research projects. She was involved in the development of the second edition of the ICRC and Brussels Privacy Hub Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action and on the Horizon 2020 projects Rebuild and HEROES.
Currently, she is part of VUB’s team working on the ALUNA project and also manages her research centre’s role as Belgian national contractor for the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
Outputs through the RLI
- Article: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: a Human Rights Assessment of the Fate of Excluded Asylum-seekers and Criminal Refugees in Australia, Júlia Zomignani Barboza, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 725–745, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdac024 (written during a research stay at the RLI in London)