Ainoa Cabada Rey

Dr. Ainoa Cabada Rey serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide within the Politics and International Relations department (POLIR) of the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics. A Galician-born Australian scholar, her work critically examines sovereignty's role in human rights frameworks and advocates for preventative approaches to refugee protection through international legal mechanisms.

Her research spans human rights law, refugee protection regimes, authoritarian blacklisting practices, and security policy. She investigates how state dominance impacts protection frameworks, analyzes EU externalisation policies, and explores intersections between medical knowledge and migration outcomes. Her teaching portfolio includes International Security, Terrorism and Global Politics, and Justice and Rights courses.

• Finalist for 'Racism. It Stops With Me' Award by the Australian Human Rights Commission (2017, 2018)

Dr. Cabada coordinates multi-institutional projects on anti-racism and Indigenous rights while serving as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Adelaide Journal of Social Sciences and editorial team member for Border Criminologies. Her peer review contributions span Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis publications, and she actively collaborates with CONREP at the University of Melbourne on refugee policy research.