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Dr Raquel Rojas

Raquel Rojas is a Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction at the University of Cambridge. Her research explores issues of inequality and intersectionality, labour relations, and the push to transform caregiving from a private concern into a public policy matter. Raquel’s empirical work focuses primarily on Latin America, where she has conducted qualitative fieldwork examining the organisational experiences of household workers in Uruguay and Paraguay, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care responsibilities, and the negotiations between various stakeholders involved in care policy debates. In line with her empirical focus, she is also interested in efforts to decolonise the sociological canon by incorporating contributions from the Global South.

Before joining the University of Cambridge, Raquel was a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (2021-2023), and a postdoctoral researcher at MECILA, the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for Conviviality and Inequality in Latin America (2023-2024). She was also a Princeton PLAS Fellow in 2024.

Raquel holds a PhD in Sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin and an MA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2018, she has been recognised as a Level I researcher by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT-Paraguay).

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Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction
Raquel Rojas
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