Camila Hernández Martínez
I hold a PhD in Gender and Diversity from the University of Oviedo, with international distinction and cum laude honours (2024), a master’s degree in Gender and Diversity from the same university (2018), and a degree in Anthropology from Universidad Externado de Colombia (2016).
My research examines migration from feminist, intersectional and decolonial perspectives, with particular attention to migrant women’s experiences, the body and inequalities. I primarily work with qualitative methods.
In 2024 I received the Amparo Pedregal Award in the category of research from a gender perspective for my doctoral thesis, «Transformación, resistencia y violencia en los cuerpos: experiencias de mujeres migrantes de Colombia en Asturias, España».
Publications
2026 · ArticleHernández Martínez, C., & Pérez-Gañán, R. Entre la asimilación y la resistencia: tensiones cotidianas en torno a la cultura alimentaria, el cuerpo y la identidad de mujeres migrantes colombianas en Asturias. Política y Sociedad, 63(2), e102970. Read article
2026 · ArticleHernández Martínez, C., & Pérez-Gañán, R. Liminalidad permanente y violencias entrelazadas: experiencias de mujeres migrantes colombianas en Asturias, España. Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, (62), 47–71. Read article
2025 · ArticleHernández Martínez, C., & Huerto Vizcarra, G. B. Voces en tránsito: el papel del habla y del silencio en la experiencia migratoria de mujeres colombianas en Asturias. Filanderas. Revista Interdisciplinar de Estudios Feministas, (10), 33–52. Read article
2024 · Doctoral thesisHernández Martínez, C. Transformación, resistencia y violencia en los cuerpos: experiencias de mujeres migrantes de Colombia en Asturias, España. Universidad de Oviedo. Read thesis
2022 · ArticleHernández Martínez, C., & Vilanova Becker, P. Mujeres latinoamericanas inmigrantes en España: experiencias de racismo y asimilación. Derecho PUCP, (89), 77–112. Read article
Forthcoming publications
Research projects
2022–2024 · NATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT
World-travelling: Narratives of Solidarity and Coalition in Contemporary Writing and Performance
Project team member from 1 September 2022 to 14 February 2024.
Spanish State Research Agency · Ref. MCIU-22-PID2021-127052OB-I00
2021–2023 · REGIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT
Research grants for research groups in the Principality of Asturias
Research team member from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023.
Fundación para la Investigación Científica y Técnica (FICYT) · Ref. SV-PA-21-AYUD/2021/51893
2020–2021 · NATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT
Strangers and Cosmopolitans: Alternative Worlds in Contemporary Literatures
Project team member from 1 July 2020 to 31 December 2021.
Spanish State Research Agency · Ref. MCIU-19-RTI2018-097186-B-I00
Conferences
2025 · Conference presentation
The domestication of globalisation re-signified in bodies: food cultures of Colombian women who have migrated to Asturias
Camila Hernández Martínez; Rocío Pérez-Gañán.
11th AIBR International Conference of Anthropology · Santander, Spain · July 2025
2022 · Conference presentation
Loneliness as a travelling companion. Social isolation and precarity in the migration trajectories of Latin American women in Spain
Patricia Vilanova Becker; Camila Hernández Martínez.
16th Social Inclusion Symposium · EAPN-AS · Spain · December 2022
2021 · Conference presentation
Migrant bodies: Experiences of Latin American women in Asturias, Spain
Camila Hernández Martínez.
LASA2021 · Global Crisis, Inequalities and the Centrality of Life · Online · May 2021
2019 · Conference presentation
The performativity of difference: Embodied experiences of Colombian migrant women in Spain
Camila Hernández Martínez.
17th Congress of Anthropology in Colombia · Universidad Icesi · Cali, Colombia · 13 June 2019
Scholarships, grants and awards
2024
Amparo Pedregal Award
Award from the Principality of Asturias for research from a gender perspective.
2020–2024
“Severo Ochoa” Programme — predoctoral contract
Predoctoral research and teaching training grant from the Principality of Asturias. Project PA-20-PF-BP19-117 (15 February 2020–14 February 2024).
2021–2022
Erasmus+ KA103 — international mobility
University of Oviedo grant for a three-month research stay at the University of Łódź (Poland).
2021–2022
Santander Erasmus Scholarship
Supplementary grant from Banco Santander for Erasmus+ international mobility.
2021
LASA Travel Grant
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) grant to present at LASA2021, Global Crisis, Inequalities and the Centrality of Life.
2017–2018
Master’s in Gender and Diversity Scholarship
University of Oviedo scholarship to pursue the Master’s in Gender and Diversity, funded by the Asturian Women’s Institute.