Dr. Andrea Jaramillo
Andrea Jaramillo is a postdoctoral researcher in the MeDiMi project “Migration and the Advance of Human Rights in ‘Health’: Paradigms, Practices, and Conflicts”. In the project, she reviews UN literature on health and contributes from her practical experience in migration in the Global South. Prior to that, she was a Research Associate in a project on “Migrant Health at the Borders in Times of COVID-19” at the University of Giessen, investigating human rights-based health policies in the Andean region. Andrea completed her PhD in philosophy with an emphasis on peace and conflict studies as a DAAD stipend-holder at the University of Marburg. She wrote her dissertation about the collective reincorporation of FARC-EP ex-members in Colombia. Prior to her PhD, Andrea earned her master’s degree in development studies at the University of Rotterdam. In Colombia, she completed two postgraduate programs in social policy and peacebuilding as well as a bachelor’s program in psychology. Additionally, she has more than ten years of experience in working with the government and international organizations in the areas of social development, peacebuilding, reduction of poverty, and reparation and reconciliation. Andrea’s research interests lie in qualitative and ethnographic perspectives on the everyday of vulnerable people, Do no Harm (DNH) in social interventions, and peacebuilding. In the field of migration, she is specifically interested in the temporality and liminal dynamic of migrants in movement and the effects of international cooperation on the wellbeing and health of migrants.
