Dr. Victor Santos Rodriguez is a political scientist with interdisciplinary expertise on global affairs, human mobilities, security studies, labor matters, gender/sexualities and cultural politics. He teaches at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). His current research explores the migration-gender-(in)security nexus from the perspective of the politics of the body. He is about to start a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoc.Mobility fellowship at Paris Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI). The research project that he will be conducting there is entitled Family reunification politics in postwar Western Europe: migrant women, state control and reproductive bodies.
In addition to his academic work, Victor Santos Rodriguez was active for ten years in the associative sphere where he co-founded and chaired Jet d’Encre, an association whose democratic objective was – among others – to ensure the dissemination of academic knowledge that has the ability to contribute positively to public deliberations.
« "Soy feminista y me gusta el perreo" : les conflits de (re)signification dans les politiques sexuelles du reggaeton », in GLAD! Revue sur le langage, le genre, les sexualités, No. 14, 2023.
« Des saisonnières aux "sans-papiers" : migration, genre et économie politique des corps (in)sécurisés en Suisse », in Géo-Regards, No. 15, 2022, pp. 83-100.
"Reclaiming agency through the politics of the in_visible body: illegalized migration and self-representation of women domestic workers in Switzerland", in On_Culture – The Open Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 13, 2022 (with co-author Maevia Griffiths).