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Dr Raquel Rojas
Fellow

Dr Raquel Rojas

Bye Fellow

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Raquel Rojas is a Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on inequality and intersectionality, labour relations, and the political dimensions of caregiving.  

Before joining 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). In 2024, she held a fellowship at Princeton University (USA), within the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS). 

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

Degrees 

  • PhD in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • MA in Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • Specialist in Social Development, FLACSO Paraguay
  • BA in Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de AsunciĂłn, Paraguay 

Specific Research interests

My research centers on the social dynamics of care and social reproduction, exploring how the organization of care  links structural inequalities with everyday experiences of both caregiving responsibilities and access to care. 

Authored work

  • Rojas, Raquel (2020) “Same Work, Same Value? Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay”, Current Sociology, 69(6), pp. 843-860.   

    Rojas, Raquel (2020) “Physically Close, Socially Distant. Paid Domestic Work and (Dis-) encounters in Latin America’s Private Households”, Mecila Working Papers Series No. 27. SĂŁo Paulo: MECILA.  

    Rojas, Raquel (2022) “Building Networks, Bridging Divides? Organizational Experiences of Paid Domestic Workers in Uruguay and Paraguay”, in Katja Hujo and Maggie Carter (eds.) Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World. London: UNRISD/Bloomsbury Academics, pp. 209-225. 

    Rojas, Raquel (2023) “Work, Gender and Labor Organizing: Paid Domestic Workers’ Unions in Paraguay”, in Charmain Levy, Laureen Elgert and ValĂ©rie L'Heureux (eds.) Social Movements and Social Change in Paraguay. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 129-153.  

    Rojas, Raquel; Flamand, Laura; Piovani, Juan; and Aparicio, Rosario (2024) “The exacerbation of inequalities in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and its effects within and across households”, in Simone Maddanu and Emanuele Toscano (eds.) Sociology of Pandemic: Inequalities, Social Justice and Democracy. London: Routledge, pp. 21-37. https:/dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003459682-3 

     

Subject
Human, Social & Political Sciences