Yemisi Laura Sloane
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Gender-based violence against Sub-Saharan African women in a variety of social and political contexts
- Gender and Migration
- Gender and Human Rights
- Social Inequalities
- Intersectional Feminism
- Feminist Jurisprudence
Biography
Yemisi holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Human Rights Law from Birkbeck, University of London and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree at the University of Benin, Nigeria. She is currently a PhD candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex Colchester, England. Her research interests continues to be in gender-based violence among women and girls from Sub-Saharan Africa, the intersections of gender and immigration, intersectional feminism and feminists perspectives on law.
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Marriage-Migration and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): The Gendered Impact of the Hostile Environment Immigration Policy on the Experiences of IPV Among Nigerian Immigrant Women Living in Britain
Supervisor: Dr Gigoux Gramegna, Carlos and Dr Johanna Römer