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Care, Inequalities, Social Movements, Feminisms, Social Policies, Labor Relations
Paraguay, Germany, United Kingdom

Biography

I hold a PhD in Sociology from the Freie Universität Berlin and MA in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I am originally from Paraguay, where I earned a Specialist Degree in Social Development from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and a BA degree in Social Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.
My research focuses on inequalities and intersectional analysis, care and care policies, feminisms, social movements and labor relations. Currently, I am categorized as a Researcher (Level I) at CONACYT Paraguay.

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Employment (9)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2025-01 to present | Teaching Associate in Gender and Reproduction (Department of Sociology)
Employment
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Rojas, Raquel

Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2023-08-01 to 2024-12-31 | Post Doctoral Investigator at MECILA (Institute for Latin American Studies)
Employment
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Rojas, Raquel

Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

2022-10-01 to 2023-07-31 | Visiting Lecturer, Sociology (Institute for Latin American Studies)
Employment
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Rojas, Raquel

Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

2021-08-01 to 2022-07-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer (Institute for Latin American Studies)
Employment
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Rojas, Raquel

Mecila: Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America: Colonge, DE

2021-05 to 2021-07-31 | Junior Fellow
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Rojas, Raquel

Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2016-01 to 2018-12 | Doctoral Fellow (International Research Training Group “Between Spaces”, Institute for Latin America Studies,)
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Rojas, Raquel

Center of Studies and Popular Education GERMINAL: Asunción, PY

2008-01 to 2015-12-31 | Associated Researcher (Research & Development)
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Rojas, Raquel

Youth's House Foundation: Asunción, PY

2011-04 to 2012-06 | General Director
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Rojas, Raquel

Youth's House Foundation: Asunción, PY

2009-07 to 2011-03 | General Coordinator
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Education and qualifications (4)

Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2016-01 to 2019-06 | PhD in Sociology (Department of Political and Social Sciences)
Education
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Rojas, Raquel

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2012-10 to 2014-12 | Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Department of Social Sciences)
Education
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Rojas, Raquel

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Paraguay: Asuncion, PY

2010-03 to 2010-12 | Specialist in Social Sciences, major in Social Development
Education
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Rojas, Raquel

Universidad Nacional de Asunción: Asuncion, PY

2004-03 to 2009-10 | Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences)
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Professional activities (6)

Asociación Paraguaya de Investigadoras Feministas: Asunción, PY

2023-03-01 to present | Funding Member
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Rojas, Raquel

Asociación Paraguaya de Sociología: Asunción, PY

2022-07 to present | Full member
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Rojas, Raquel

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales: Buenos Aires, AR

2021-07 to present | Member (Grupo de Trabajo Trabajo, modelos productivos y actores sociales)
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Rojas, Raquel

FG DeKolonial e.V. - Fachgesellschaft für rassismuskritische, postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie und Praxis: Berlin, DE

2021 to present | Full member
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Rojas, Raquel

Latin American Studies Association: Albuquerque, NM, US

2019 to present | Member (Labor Studies; Gender Studies)
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología: Asuncion, PY

2018-04 | Researcher Level I, Social Sciences (PRONII)
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Works (39)

Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Employment and Income in Paraguayan Border Cities

Novos Estudos - CEBRAP
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Raquel Rojas; Marcello Lachi; Sebastián Bruno
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The exacerbation of inequalities in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and its effects within and across households 1

Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic
2024-03-17 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003459682
Contributors: Raquel Rojas; Laura Flamand; Juan Ignacio Piovani; Rosario Aparicio
Source: Self-asserted source
Rojas, Raquel

El Movimiento Sindical y los Estudios Laborales en Paraguay. Desafíos y Perspectivas para una Agenda de Investigación

La Agenda Laboral en el Contexto de la Pandemia COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-987-813-510-6
Contributors: Rojas, Raquel
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Rojas, Raquel

The Paraguayan Labor Movement at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783031258824
Part of ISBN: 9783031258831
Contributors: Ignacio González Bozzolasco; Raquel Rojas
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Rojas, Raquel

Work, Gender, and Labor Organizing: Paid Domestic Workers’ Unions in Paraguay

Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783031258824
Part of ISBN: 9783031258831
Contributors: Raquel Rojas
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Rojas, Raquel

Building Networks, Bridging Divides? Organizational Experiences of Paid Domestic Workers in Uruguay and Paraguay

Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World
2022 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-1-3502-2903-7
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Rojas, Raquel

Cercanía física, distancia social. Trabajo doméstico remunerado y (des)encuentros en hogares de América Latina

Convivialidad-Desigualdad: explorando los nexos entre lo que nos une y lo que nos separa
2022 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-987-813-216-7
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Rojas, Raquel

Socioeconomic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Containment measures on Paraguayan Border Cities

2022 | Dataset
Contributors: Raquel Rojas; Marcello Lachi
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Rojas, Raquel

Another Turn of the Screw The COVID-19 Crisis and the Reinforced Separation of Capital and Care

2022-09-01 | Working paper
Contributors: Raquel Scheffer
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Rojas, Raquel

El empleo en la industria paraguaya del siglo XXI

ADAPT
2021 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2282-2313
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Rojas, Raquel

Essential yet Undervalued. Paid Domestic Work, Migration, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay

Migrant Labor in Global Chains
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-946327-28-8
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Rojas, Raquel

Sindicalismo con perspectiva de género: el verdadero sindicalismo de clase

Tereré Cómplice
2021-02-22 | Interactive resource
Contributors: Rojas, Raquel
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Rojas, Raquel

Desencuentros y conflictos entre actores colectivos en la industria paraguaya

Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
2020 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1668-6357
Part of ISSN: 1668-6365
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Rojas, Raquel

Relaciones Laborales en la Industria Paraguaya. Cambios y continuidades en tiempos globalizados

Arandura/Germinal
2020 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

Movimiento estudiantil secundario y empoderamiento de mujeres en Paraguay

OSAL - Observatorio Latinoamericano y Caribeño
2020-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1853-2713
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Rojas, Raquel

Sindicalismo Paraguayo y Participación de Mujeres. Avances y Desafíos

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
2020-12 | Working paper
Part of ISBN: 978-987-4439-47-5
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Rojas, Raquel

Physically Close, Socially Distant. Paid Domestic Work and (Dis-)Encounters in Latin America’s Private Households

Mecila: Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America
2020-11 | Working paper
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Rojas, Raquel

Same work, same value? Paid domestic workers’ and housewives’ struggles for rights in Uruguay and Paraguay

Current Sociology
2020-11-16 | Journal article
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Rojas, Raquel
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Sin Relación Aparente. Partidos Políticos e Ideología en Paraguay

POSTData
2020-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: ISSN 1515-209X
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Rojas, Raquel

Articulating Differences and Inequalities. Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay.

Mecila. Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America
2020-04 | Working paper
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Rojas, Raquel

Vínculos afectivos y necesidades materiales. La práctica clientelar en Paraguay

Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos e-l@tina
2020-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1666-9606
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Rojas, Raquel

De Asunción a Ginebra: Trabajo doméstico remunerado y redes de activismo laboral en Paraguay

Giros espacio-temporales: Repensando los entrelazamientos globales desde América Latina.
2019 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-946327-16-5
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Rojas, Raquel

Luchas de Estudiantes. El Renacer del Movimiento Estudiantil Secundario y el Nuevo Liderazgo Femenino

Arandurã Editorial
2019 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

Construyendo redes desde las desigualdades entrelazadas : trabajo doméstico remunerado y organización gremial en Uruguay

2019-06-17 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Rojas, Raquel
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Rojas, Raquel

Correligionarios. Actitudes y Prácticas Políticas del Electorado Paraguay

Arandurã Editorial
2018 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

Entangled Inequalities and Network Building: Organizational Experiences of Paid Domestic Workers in Uruguay and Paraguay

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference “Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization
2018 | Conference paper
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Rojas, Raquel

Paraguay como eslabón en la cadena de valor mundial. Construcción de un marco analítico para estudiar relaciones laborales en tiempos globalizados.

Revista Novapolis
2018-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-5172
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Rojas, Raquel

Entre la tradición y el afecto: La identificación partidaria en Paraguay

Novapolis
2018-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-5172
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Rojas, Raquel

Diálogo Social, Contratación Colectiva y Tripartismo en Paraguay

Arandurã Editorial
2017 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

El diálogo social tripartito en Paraguay, 25 años de intentos y escasos éxitos

Revista Novapolis
2016-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-5172
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Rojas, Raquel

El programa de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas Tekoporã en Paraguay: ¿Lucha contra la pobreza y desigualdad o por espacios de poder político?

desiguALdades.net, FU Berlin
2015 | Working paper
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Rojas, Raquel

Interpretando el ‘Nuevo Rumbo'. Elementos para evaluar el proceso de reestructuración del modelo socioeconómico paraguayo impulsado por el Gobierno de Horacio Cartes

Revista Novapolis
2015-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-5172
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Rojas, Raquel

Por su propio bien. Condicionalidad y la imagen de la población pobre en políticas sociales

Revista Novapolis
2015-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2077-5172
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Rojas, Raquel

Programa de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas: ¿Puerta de entrada a derechos sociales? Un análisis a partir del Programa Tekoporã

REVICSO
2014 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2409-1189
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Rojas, Raquel

Observatorio Sindical 2010.

CEEP Germinal
2011 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

Observatorio Sindical 2009

CEEP Germinal
2010 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

Le changement de gouvernement au Paraguay: le rôle de la gauche et les défis un an aprés la victoire de l'alternance.

Contradictions
2009 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0770-8521
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Rojas, Raquel

Observatorio Sindical 2008

CEEP Germinal
2009 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel

Observatorio Sindical 2007

CEEP Germinal
2008 | Book
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Rojas, Raquel