Marina Gómez Hernández
Keywords: Human Trafficking; Gender and Decolonial Approaches in International Law; Protection of Refugee Women and Unaccompanied Children; Reproductive Violence in International Conflicts; State Responsibility and the Duty to Protect; EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
Working Group(s): Working Group on Feminist Theory, Refugees and Displacement
Bio
Marina Gómez Hernández is a Human Rights Qualified Lawyer (Spain) and a PhD Candidate in International Public Law at the University of Murcia, with an academic fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on international refugee, human rights, and international criminal law, particularly the protection of refugee and migrant women and unaccompanied children in the European Union, human trafficking, and reproductive violence. Employing gender-sensitive approaches, she critically examines structural inequalities in international law and explores colonial, neoliberal, and Western perspectives on violence against women and children in the Global South. Marina has extensive field, legal, and policy experience across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, working with IOM, the EUAA, UNHCR, and civil society organizations. She holds a double B.Sc. in Law and Economics from Carlos III University of Madrid and three M.Sc. degrees, including an Advanced LL.M. in International Public Law with a specialization in Human Rights from Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Recent publications
- La trata de menores sin referentes familiares y nacionales de terceros países que huyen de Ucrania: : Aspectos para su protección en España bajo un enfoque de infancia | Anales de Derecho
- Defender las garantías procesales en la frontera - Dialnet ‘’Defending procedural guarantees at the border’’ Claves de la razón Práctica, nº 272, June 2020 (co-author)