Yolanda
Hernández-Albújar

Professor Yolanda Hernández-Albújar works at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, in Seville where she teaches courses in Cultural Anthropology, Migration and Gender. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master´s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She explores, from a cultural perspective, issues of identity, migration and gender. She has conducted ethnographic research in Syrian refugee camps in Beirut, where she interviewed refugee women to document their experiences of displacement. She is now involved in two research projects: one studying the impact that GBV has upon indigenous women in Honduras and their intention to migrate. The second one is on the psychosocial well-being of left-behind children and their caretakers in Honduras.