Amalia Campos-Delgado is Assistant Professor of Law & Society at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University. She is member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI, Level I).

She holds a BA in Anthropology, a MRes in Sociocultural Studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, and a PhD in Politics from Queen’s University Belfast. During 2019 was Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the Université de Montréal. Since March 2020 she has been part of the Leiden University’s Global Citizenship and Transformations programme, specifically in the Social Citizenship and Migration pillar.

Amalia’s research brings together perspectives from Political Sociology, International Relations, and Criminology. Her research interests include border securitisation, externalisation of borders, immigration-control bureaucracies, and migrant care work.