Rocío Medina Martín

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Rocío Medina Martín holds a PhD in Human Rights, Development and Interculturality from the Pablo de Olavide University, with the doctoral thesis “Sahrawi women: experiences of resistance and agency in a decolonial feminist future”. Postgraduate in Migrations, Interethnic Relations and Multiculturalism from the Department of Social Anthropology, she also holds a degree in Law from the University of Seville. Medina is a professor and a research technician at the Pablo de Olavide University (2004-2018). She is currently a lecturer in the Philosophy of Law Area at the Department of Political Sciences and Public Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she is also a member of the Antígona research group on rights and society with a gender perspective. She is also a lecturer of the Erasmus Mundus master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Granada, the Catalan interuniversity master’s degree in Women’s, Gender and Citizenship Studies, the postgraduate course in Gender-based Violence, and the postgraduate course in Gender and Equality, both from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, among other master’s and postgraduate degrees, such as the master’s degree in Legal Feminism (UAB). She has been visiting researcher at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), the National University of Costa Rica and Harvard University (USA). She currently lives in Argentina, researching on anti-trafficking policies at the Faculty of Law from the University of Buenos Aires. Her fields of study and publications have dealt with issues linked to critical theories of human rights, theories of emancipation, academic activism, decolonial feminisms and decolonial, postcolonial, feminist epistemologies. Much of her work has been carried out in support of several processes for the rights of migrants in Spain, internally displaced women in Colombia, Sahrawi refugee women and sex workers in Spain.