Fabiola Mieres
Title of thesis
Moving Social Peripheries: Private Labour Contractors in the Global Political Economy of Migration
Supervisors
Prof. Nicola Phillips and Prof. Rosaleen Duffy
Planned submission date
September 2012
Research interests
The doctoral research project seeks to analyse the increasing prominence of private recruiters as a 'migration industry', and to explore the implications and consequences that new forms of recruitment carry for migrant workers. The project will take a comparative focus on the Philippines and Mexico, and seek to understand in each case how particular types of recruitment by private agents and different modes of state regulation of migration intersect in ways which shape the rights of migrant workers and the conditions in which they work.
International Political Economy. International Migration. The politics of development. Migrant labour recruitment. Global governance.
Publications
Journal papers
'Rethinking Migration and Belonging in the 21st Century: An Introduction', Political Perspectives Graduate Journal, Special Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3. (forthcoming 2010) (Jointly with Rebecca Ehata)
'Entwicklungs-finanzierung und Reform der Finanzarchitektur. Eine Betrachtung zu Lateinamerika'(Finance for Development and the Reform of the Financial Architecture: A View from Latin America), Nueva Sociedad Sonderheft, (October 2009) ISSN 0251-3552*
Policy papers
2008 'El financiamiento para el desarrollo y la reforma del sistema financiero internacional. Una mirada desde América Latina', Nueva Sociedad Documentos, (October 2008) (Jointly with Pablo Trucco)
2009 'Financing for Development and the Reform of the Financial Architecture: A View from Latin America', Dialogue on Globalization Briefing Paper No. 5, FES Berlin, April.
Book reviews
'América Latina: ¿integración o fragmentación' (Latin America: integration or fragmentation?), Ricardo Lagos (Ed.), Edhasa, Buenos Aires in Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2008)
Conference papers
"Fielding the Wrong Ball? A Critique to Global Approaches to 'Forced Labour'", paper presented at the conference 'Ten Year of War against Poverty: What we have learned since 2000 and what we should do 2010-2020', Chronic Poverty Research Centre, University of Manchester (8-10 September 2010) (Jointly with Nicola Phillips)
Teaching experience
2010 The University of Manchester, POLI20511 'The Politics of Globalisation and Development'
2006 Catholic University of Cordoba, Argentina. Department of Law: Special class on the importance of International Relations and International Law in Trade Regimes.
2005 Di Tella University, Argentina. Department of Political Science and International Relations:
Teaching Assistant in undergraduate course: Negotiation Theory and Strategy.
Additional information
Fabiola holds a BA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and undertook postgraduate studies in International Relations at Di Tella University, Argentina. She was also an economist for Ernst & Young (2000-2005), and held a research fellowship funded by the Secretary of Science and Technology from Argentina to carry out research at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Di Tella (2005-2007). Fabiola conducted research on regionalism, trade and poverty at the Department of International Relations of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in the period 2007-2008 and contributed to the organisation of the Grupo Vidanta Foundation. Fabiola was awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship to pursue MA Studies in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. Her dissertation made a critical inquiry into the nature of the relationship between trade and migration in the context of Mexico and the United States. For this work she was awarded a distinction. Fabiola speaks fluent Spanish (native), English, French and German. She is also interested in Latin American cinema and modern art.
Email address
fabiola.mieres@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk