Dr. Alethia Fernández De La Reguera

Biography

Alethia Fernández de la Reguera is a Departmental Lecturer at the Criminology Centre at the University of Oxford, where she coordinates a project on Border Militarisation from the perspective of Global South–Global East. Throughout the past decade, she served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). From 2023 to 2025, she was a Visiting Fellow at Warwick Law School, where she launched a project investigating the effects of border militarisation on human rights protections for migrants in Mexico and Poland. In 2021, she received UNAM's National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars in the field of Social Science Research. Additionally, she is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Arizona, where she teaches in the M.A. Program in Human Rights Practice. Fernández de la Reguera is a member of the Border Criminologies Network at Oxford, and the Borders, Race, Ethnicity Migration (BREM) Network at the University of Warwick, as well as the Comparative Analysis of International Migration and Displacement in the Americas Network (CAMINAR). She serves on the Editorial Committee for the journals Feminist Legal Studies and Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México.

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