Erika Herrera Rosales

Teaching Fellow
Office: E0.10
Feedback and Advice hours:
Thursdays 11 am - 1 pm (term 1)
Tuesdays 11 am - 1 pm (term 2)
Email: erika.herrera-rosales@warwick.ac.uk
Profile
I am a Teaching Fellow in Sociology, having completed my PhD in Sociology at Warwick in 2022. Before starting my doctoral studies, I earned an MA (Distinction) in Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex) and a BA in Sociology (UNAM).
For the last few years, I have been teaching several modules across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, engaging with topics of gender, 'race', and social justice. Previously, I have also held teaching appointments at higher education institutions in Mexico (ITESM and UNAM) and taught social methods and introduction to Sociology and the Social Sciences.
Teaching
In my teaching, I draw from my own research experience in a number of academic projects around femicides, prisons, hybrid confinements, grassroots organisations, and social development in the Global South. Most recently, I have been an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies. My research interests lie in questions around global migration, bordering practices, and post/decolonial perspectives. I have also gained insight into critical methodologies that provide tools for navigating highly contentious settings whilst conducting fieldwork.
I have mentored and supervised undergraduate students, across different fields in Social Sciences and Humanities, to complete their research projects within the Widening Participation Programme.
For 2024/25, I will be teaching the following modules:
Sociology of Gender (module convenor)
Gender Analysis and Development Practice ( MA module convenor)
Gender and Violence (seminar tutor and guest lecturer)
Racism and Antiracism (seminar tutor)
Sociology of Race (seminar tutor)
Previous teaching at the department:
Gender and Violence
International Perspectives on Gender
Race, Resistance and Modernity
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Race
Criminologies: theories and concepts
Race and the Making of the Modern World
Selected Publications
Monograph:
Herrera Rosales, E. (2025) “Ambivalent Humanitarianism and migration control: Colonial legacies and the experiences of migrants in Mexico”, London: Routledge.
Peer-reviewed articles, book chapter and book reviews:
Herrera Rosales, E. and Fernandez de la Reguera, A (forthcoming) Confinement Beyond Immigrant Detention: The Participation of state and non-state actors in Humanitarian and punitive practices”, Palgrave Handbook on Criminology and the Global South, 2nd edition (invited contribution).
Herrera Rosales, E. (2023) “The Implications of Migration Governance and Colonial Structures in Humanitarian Organisations in Mexico”. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
Herrera Rosales, E. (2021) “Book Review: Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico”, Border Criminologies website, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
Herrera Rosales, E. (2018) “El espacio, el tiempo y el racismo en las perspectivas decoloniales: apuntes para descolonizar los estudios sobre migración internacional”. Interdisciplina – UNAM.
Herrera Rosales, E. (2018) “Book review: Society of the Query Reader Reflection on Web Search”, in Studies in Social and Political Thought Journal, United Kingdom.
Most recent conferences and presentations
(2025) "Family (un)making at the border", SLAS, University of Bristol, UK.
(2025) "The proliferation of migrant confinement in Mexico", II Conference Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Social research from the United Kingdom, University of Warwick, UK.
(2024) "Migrant advocacy, doubt, and silences: migration infrastructures during the emergence of the migrant caravans", IRiS International Conference, University of Birmingham, UK.
(2024) "Researching migration through ‘Nepantla’", CMDCI – Moving, being and belonging in the Contemporary World, University of the West of Scotland, UK.
(2024) "Disciplining Mobility: care, mistrust and migration management", Southernising Criminology, University of Oxford, UK.
(2024) "From colonial predicaments to immigration control”, Crime and Punishment in Latin America. Social research from the United Kingdom, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK.
(2023) “Governing immigration through local organisations”, Latin America Research Day Away, LAWN, University of Warwick.
(2023) “Intersecting gender and immigration status within academia”, Challenges of under-representation, Women in Academia: Breaking Barriers Creating Opportunities, University of Warwick.
(2023) “Social inequalities and house workers”, Movie screening Roma, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford.
(2022) (Organiser and chair) “Doing fieldwork in the South: a view on transnational migration, global borders and critical methodologies” International seminar, IAS, University of Warwick.
(2022) “Governance and bordering practices of humanitarian organisations”, IRiS 10th Anniversary International Conference, University of Birmingham, UK.
(2022) “Witnessing and gatekeeping a border of time ”. 19th IMISCOE Annual conference, Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance, Oslo (Zoom).
(2021) “Migration control within humanitarian organisations”. PhD Conference of the Criminal Justice Centre, University of Warwick (MS teams).
(2020) “The waiting rooms of migration”. Organised by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), United States of America (zoom).
(2020) “Voicing violence in migration: Experiences and testimonies from NGOs and Central American migrants”. Warwick Oral History Network, University of Warwick.
(2019) “International migration and humanitarian organisations from decolonial and postcolonial theoretical perspectives”. XVI ISA International Laboratory for PhD Students Mobilities and Social Inequalities in a Globalized World, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
(2019) “Social conditions at the US-Mexico Border”. Organised by All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mexico, Palace of Westminster, London.
Awards, scholarships and grants
Post-doctoral Research Award, The Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
IAS Award, The Institue of Advanced Studies
Early Career Fellowship, The Institute of Advanced Studies
Chancellor’s International Scholarship, The University of Warwick
PG travel grant, The Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
Full bursary for junior sociologist, XVI International Sociological Association
Scholarship for summer school participation, Linnaeus University
Chancellor’s International Scholarship,Sussex Formula Santander ScholarshipGabino Barreda medal for best sociology undergraduate student, UNAM
Research interests
Migration and border criminology
Decolonial and postcolonial perspectives
Racism in Latin America
Critical humanitarianism
Geographies of (im)mobilities, gender intimacies and resistance