Prof. Dr. Lila García

Prof. Dr. Lila García

Lila GARCÍA is Adjunct Researcher (tenured) at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina. She is also Adjunct Professor of ‘International Contemporary Politics’ and ‘Argentinean Foreign Policy’ in the Department of International Relations at  University of Mar del Plata (Argentina) and holds a Ph.D. in International Law. Her research interests are on migration and human rights (particularly on the role of courts in migration control) and on new intermestic frameworks to deal with human mobility from a human rights-based approach.

Hosting institute
  • Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN)
Current affiliation
  • University of Mar del Plata
  • National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET)
Memberships
Key expertise
  • Migration and human rights
  • Migration Law
  • Courts
  • Migration control
  • Borders
  • Social rights
Regional expertise
  • Argentinien
  • Latin America

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Scientific topics
  • Borders
  • International Protection
  • National Refugee And Asylum Policies
  • Refugee Law
Disciplines
  • Law
  • Political Sciences

Professional Career

Relevant publications

  • García, L..Migration Legislation and Policy in Argentina (with Lucila Nejamkis), in N. Dolly Caicedo Camacho et. al. (coord.), Migration Policies and Reform in Latin America: A Comparative Study.2022.Mc. Gill Ed. .
  • García, L..Migration. In Koen De Feyter, Stéphanie De Moerloose and Gamze Erdem Türkelli (coord.). Law & Development Encyclopedia.2021.Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • García, L..Argentina and the human right to migrate. In Agnieszka Weina (Ed.), Emigration and diaspora policies in the age of mobility. Serie: Global Migration Issues (pp.13-30).2017.Springer International Publishing.
  • García, L..Argentine Migration Policy is Back on the (Human) Right Track. Border Criminologies.2021.ford Faculty of Law.
  • García, L..Argentina’s Migration Law: Changes challenging the human right to migrate, Border Criminologies.2017.Oxford Faculty of Law.