My research interests focus on the intersection between migration and international protection of refugees through both top-down and bottom-up perspectives. From a top-down approach, both through academia and my professional experience, I have analyzed existing legal frameworks and public policies that shape protection mechanisms in Latin America, focusing on how states design and implement asylum and temporary protection regimes. At the same time, my research over the past years has allowed me to integrate the lived experiences and narratives of migrants themselves, incorporating bottom-up perspectives to understand how these policies affect people on the ground and how individuals negotiate legal categories in their everyday lives.

My DPhil research investigates the evolution of protection for Venezuelan populations in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, highlighting the shift from traditional asylum to temporary protection pathways. By combining legal, policy, and experiential approaches, and drawing on TWAIL and the study of time and temporalities, my work aims to provide a nuanced, comparative understanding of how law, institutions, and human experiences intersect in contexts of rapid migratory change.