About

Erika Herrera Rosales is an early-career sociologist interested in questions of transnational migration, border regimes, decolonial perspectives, intersectional inequalities and participatory methodologies in social research. 

She received a Postdoctoral Research Award from the Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS) to continue researching state violence, migrant detention and family injustices at the US-Mexico border.

Previously, she was a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her book Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the experiences of migrants in Mexico, edited by Routledge (London) provides an in-depth analysis of the ambiguous roles of humanitarian organisations, contributing to ongoing discussions on global colonial governance, the criminalisation of migrants and their everyday resistances. Some of her more recent interviews and talks have been with a local radio station in Mexico, IIS-UNAM and the University of Oxford: Southernising Criminology.