Dr. Amalia Campos-Delgado is Assistant Professor of Law & Society at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University. She holds a BA in Anthropology (UASLP), a MRes in Sociocultural Studies (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), and a PhD in Politics (Queen’s University Belfast). During 2019 was Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the Université de Montréal. Since March 2020 she is part of the Leiden University’s Global Citizenship and Transformations programme, specifically in the Social Citizenship and Migration pillar. She is member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI, Level I).
Through a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together perspectives from Political Sociology, International Relations, and Social Anthropology, her research focuses on the geopolitics and micropolitics of migration control. Her research interests include border securitisation, externalisation of borders, and migrant care work, with special interest in Latin America and Latin American and Caribbean population on the move.
Dr. Campos-Delgado’s research has been published in Geopolitics, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, British Journal of Criminology, Mobilities, and Migration Studies, among other venues. With Ilse van Liempt and Joris Schapendonk, she coedited the Research Handbook on Irregular Migration (Edward Elgar Publishing).
