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Ignacio Odriozola

Ignacio Odriozola

PhD Researcher in International Law
Spoken languages
Spanish, English

PHD THESIS
 

PhD Thesis Title: Between a rights-based approach and State opacity. Migrant expulsions in Latin America.

Supervisor : Vincent Chetail

Expected Completion Date : 2027
 

PROFILE
 

Ignacio Odriozola is a PhD researcher specialising in International Law. He holds a law degree oriented to International Law from the University of Buenos Aires and a master's degree in Migration and Mobility Studies from the University of Bristol obtained after being awarded the Chevening Scholarship. Ignacio has worked as a legal officer at the Migrants’ Commission within the National Public Defenders Office in Buenos Aires and as a human rights consultant at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Washington DC. He has provided expert opinion to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and different international, regional and national institutions on issues related to human mobility and international law. His research interests encompass international migration, refugee law, statelessness, nationality law, human rights, and the link between human displacement and climate change, with a particular focus on Latin America.
 

Research Interests
 

  • International Migration Law

  • International Refugee Law

  • Nationality and Statelessness Law

  • Forced displacement

  • Human Rights
     

Selected publications and Works
 

  • Odriozola, I (2025) “América del Sur, el Comité de Trabajadores Migratorios y los procedimientos de comunicaciones individuales” en Acosta, D., Ramírez, J. & Penchaszadah, AP. Movilidad y Migraciones en América Latina (forthcoming)

  • Odriozola, I (2024) “Exijo explicaciones. El deber de motivar en los procedimientos de expulsión migratorios en Argentina desde la perspectiva del derecho internacional”, Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos, Vol. 14 (1)

  • Odriozola, I (2023) “Veinte años del Acuerdo de Residencia del Mercosur. La llave hacia la regularidad migratoria en la región”, Comisión Argentina de Refugiados y Migrantes (CAREF) y el Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)

  • Odriozola, I (2022) “The Human Right to (Re)Enter one’s own country. A South American study amidst the Covid-19 pandemic”, Journal on Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Ed. Bloomsbury, Vol. 36 (3). 

  • Odriozola, I et al (2021) “Movilidad humana asociada a desastres y el cambio climático en Centroamérica: una perspectiva de derechos humanos”, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

  • Odriozola, I (2020), “Los Acuerdos de Integración Regional y el derecho a la libre circulación de personas entre Estados ¿una alternativa silenciada en un mundo amurallado?”, Revista de Integración Regional & Derechos Humanos del Centro de Excelencia Jean Monnet, Año IX, N°1 – 1er Semestre, Buenos Aires
     

Academic Work Experience
 

  • Lecturer at the Postgraduate Diploma in Migration and Refugee Protection (School of Law), University of Buenos Aires.
  • Junior lecturer in International Refugee Law (School of Law), University of Buenos Aires.