Dr Simona Sokolovska

Profile

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds, UK and in the Social Values Research Group at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Deusto, Spain. I am from Macedonia but I have been living and working in Spain since 2014. I hold MA in Intervention in Cases of Violence against Women (University of Deusto) and PhD in Human Rights: Ethical Social and Political Challenges (with cum laude) from the same university. During my PhD studies I did a Research Affiliation in the Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies at the TATA Institute of Social Sciences, India.

Fellowships/ Fundings/ Institutions:
1. Basque Government Fellowship for the Improvement of PhD Research Personnel, University of Deusto/Leeds (2023 – ongoing)
2. Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Barcelona (2022 – 2023)
3. FPI Research Training Grant Programme, University of Deusto (2016 – 2020)
4. The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Sylff, University of Deusto (2015 – 2016)
5. Basileus Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Scholarship, University of Deusto (2014 – 2015)

Responsibilities

• Visiting Researcher

Research interests

I am interested in migration from the Global South to the Global North, women’s studies and the empowerment of women. My doctoral thesis was centred on the empowerment of migrant women from South Asia in the Basque Country through the ‘life history’ method. I looked at gender roles, cultural identity and the tranformations women underwent with and during the migration process. My research interests also focus on labour insertion and the economic authonomy of migrant women. I am particularly interested in India as a research locale for my work. Nonetheless I have worked on projects focused on alliances among native and migrant women in the Basque Country, employment of Roma women in the Basque Country and safe reporting of crimes of migrants with irregular migration status in Barcelona. My approach is qualitative and intersectional.

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