Staff profile

Education and Employment

Prior to my PhD, I was a principal researcher on human mobility at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru), where I was in charge of several research projects around migration and asylum public policies in Latin America. 

I graduated from Law and Political Science (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). I hold a Master degree in the Law of the European Union (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) and a Master degree in comparative European Laws between Spain and France (Université Paris X Nanterre, France). I also have a Certificate in Migration and Asylum from a Human Rights Perspective (Lanús University, Argentina).  

Currently, I’m a lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru). I supervise undergraduate thesis on migration issues to obtain a Law degree in Peru. I’m also a research associate at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights.

PhD project

My project focuses on the itineraries of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in a re-bordering context. Utilising a migrant centred approach, this study will develop a novel understanding of the complex and multi-faceted itineraries that shape migrant experiences. The project’s focus on migrant itineraries will advance critical debates on geographies of migration, immobility, mobility and border studies, migrant decision-making, and spaces of transit in an understudied geographical area. 

My project is supported by UK's ESRC NINE Doctoral Training Partnership. A description of my project could be found here: https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/cecile-blouin-open-doors-cross-border-itineraries-of-venezuelan-migrants-in-colombia-ecuador-peru/

 

Research interests

Borders, mobility regimes, journeys, Venezuelan migration, migration and asylum policies, legal categories, racism, Andean region

 

Esteem indicators

• 2024: UK  ESRC NINE Doctoral Training Partnership Overseas Fieldwork Funding.
• 2023: UK Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarship.
• 2022: PUCP Annual Research Recognition Award.
• 2022: Latin American Studies Association (LASA)- registration scholarship for the LASA, Annual Conference. Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias.
• 2020: LASA-FORD: Special Project Award (Grant #FL-15-01) to support the CAMINAR project ‘The crisis of forced displacement and responses to COVID-19 in Latin America.
• 2018: PUCP: Annual Award as Best Employee.
• 2019: LASA: Mobility grant to support my venue as speaker to LASA Annual Conference. Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion.

 

Journal Article

• Blouin, C., & Borios, S. (online). ‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru. Journal of Refugee Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead041
• Freier, L. F., Berganza, I., & Blouin, C. (2022). The Cartagena Refugee Definition and Venezuelan Displacement in Latin America1. International Migration, 60(1), 18-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12791
• Vera Espinoza, M., Prieto Rosas, V., Zapata, G. P., Gandini, L., Fernández de la Reguera, A., Herrera, G., López Villamil, S., Zamora Gómez, C. M., Blouin, C., Montiel, C., Cabezas Gálvez, G., & Palla, I. (2021). Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparative Migration Studies, 9(1), Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00265-x
• Blouin, C. (2021). Complejidades y contradicciones de la política migratoria hacia la migración venezolana en el Perú. Colombia Internacional, 106, 141-164. https://doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint106.2021.06
• Berganza Setién, I., Blouin, C., & Feline Freier, L. (2020). EL ELEMENTO SITUACIONAL DE VIOLACIÓN MASIVA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LA DEFINICIÓN AMPLIADA DE CARTAGENA: HACIA UNA APLICACIÓN EN EL CASO VENEZOLANO. Revista Chilena de Derecho, 47(2), 385-410. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-34372020000200385
• Blouin, C. A. (2018). La normativa peruana en materia de tráfico de migrantes a la luz del Derecho Internacional: ¿Hacia una protección de los derechos de las personas migrantes?. Revista Espiga, 16(34), 215-230. https://doi.org/10.22458/re.v17i34.1840
• Blouin, C., & Button, E. (2018). Addressing Overlapping Migratory Categories within New Patterns of Mobility in Peru. Anti-Trafficking Review, 69-84. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201218115