Erika Jiménez is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast on a project entitled: Golani youth, human rights and the forgotten occupation.
Her first book Rethinking human rights: critical insights from Palestinian youth will be published in October 2024 as part of the Human Rights Law in Perspective (Hart/Bloomsbury) series.
She has worked on other projects including a study that explored the experiences of education among minority ethnic and migrant groups in Northern Ireland. Before that she worked as a Research Fellow at the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham in the area of modern slavery research.
Erika is committed to conducting research that amplifies voices and ‘ways of knowing’ that are often side-lined in society and academia. She is also interested in decolonial approaches to human rights, childhood, and research. This has led her to conduct research alongside research advisory groups made up of minoritised populations such as Palestinian youth, refugees and survivors of modern slavery.
Experience
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2023–presentPostdoctoral research fellow, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
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2021–2023Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast
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2020–2021Postdoctoral research fellow, The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham
Education
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2018Queen's University Belfast, PhD
Publications
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2023‘The occupation wants to delete us’: Palestinian youth’s interpretations of and resistance to settler colonialism,
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2022The unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation,
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2021Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors,
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