Raquel Rojas

Dr. Raquel Rojas serves as Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction at the University of Cambridge's Department of Sociology. Her research examines inequality, intersectionality, and labor relations with focus on transforming caregiving into public policy, conducting fieldwork on household workers in Uruguay/Paraguay, pandemic impacts on care responsibilities, and decolonizing sociological knowledge through Global South perspectives.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Sociology from Freie Universität Berlin
• MA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University of Berlin

Rojas specializes in Gender Sociology, Social Reproduction, and Decolonial Theory, investigating how care work intersects with class, race, and migration in Latin America. Her work exposes systemic undervaluation of domestic labor while documenting organizing efforts among household workers and housewives, emphasizing how crises like COVID-19 exacerbate existing inequalities in care distribution.

Her recent publications (2020-2024) reveal consistent focus on pandemic impacts on border economies, domestic workers' unionization, and decolonial knowledge production. Key patterns include centering Latin American case studies to challenge Eurocentric frameworks, analyzing how care responsibilities become sites of political struggle, and documenting transnational activist networks shaping labor rights.

Her scientific recognition includes:

• Princeton PLAS Fellowship (2024)
• Mecila Fellowship (2021)
• CONACYT-Paraguay Level I Researcher (since 2018)
• DAAD Congress Participation Scholarship (2018)
• Doctoral Fellowship from International Research Training Group (2016-2019)

Rojas supervises MPhil students in Social Inequalities, Gender, and Latin America while securing research funding through:

• DFG Grants: COVID-19 impact studies in Paraguayan border cities (2021/2022)
• Margherita von Brentano Center: Podcast production on Gender and Migration (2023)
• MECILA: Conviviality and Inequality research (2021)

She actively contributes to FG DeKolonial e.V. for decolonial practice, CLACSO's Labor Working Group, LASA's Gender section, RITHAL's household work network, and co-founded Paraguay's APIF feminist research association.