Victor Santos Rodriguez

Victor Santos Rodriguez is a political scientist with interdisciplinary expertise on global affairs, human mobilities, security studies, labor, gender/sexualities and popular cultures. He has taught at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and at the University of Lausanne where he is also an associate member of the Center of International History and Political Studies of Globalization (CRHIM). His current research explores the migration-gender-(in)security nexus from the perspective of the politics of the body. This line of inquiry has brought him to study issues as varied as gendered regimes of labor, hindered parenting, the medical gaze, urban exclusions, oral history and bodily forms of resistance in the interplay between the visible and the invisible.

Victor Santos Rodriguez has been awarded funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to carry out a research project at Paris Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI). The project is entitled Family Reunification Politics in Postwar Western Europe: Migrant Women, State Control and Reproductive Bodies.