Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Personal information
Miriam (Mimi) Ocadiz is a s a PhD candidate within the Refugee Academy project Engaged Scholarship Narratives of Change where she focuses on the role of academia in the societal inclusion of refugees in the context of South Africa.
She has a multidisciplinary background focussing on African Studies. Her very first studies were Hispanic Literature and Language at the UNAM in Mexico, followed by a bachelor in International Studies where she specialised in African Culture and Politics. Afterwards, she did a research Masters in African Studies (cum laude) dedicated to the Cuban medical cooperation in Mozambique and the contemporary embodiment of solidarity.
Throughout her personal and academic background, she has developed a passion for South-South cooperation from a decolonial perspective, along with feminist and critical theories in relation to diversity and migration in the global South.
Prizes and Awards
Special Mention Humanitarian Communication Thesis Award 2018
Prizes and Awards
Honorable Mention, “Mujer migrante, cuéntame tu historia". National Institute for Women, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2017
Prizes and Awards
Uhlenbeck scholarship programm from the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University to perform six months of fieldwork (four months in Mozambique and two in Cuba). 2016
Prizes and Awards
Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS). A highly competitive scholarship for Non-European students to complete a full-time master at Leiden University. 2015
Teaching
Mimi is currently supporting the bachelor course Identity, Diversity and Inclusion
Academic qualification
Research Master African Studies, Master
Award Date: 29 Sep 2017
International Studies, Bachelor, Leiden University
Award Date: 31 Jul 2015
Keywords
- HM Sociology
- African Studies
- Migration Studies
- Decolonization
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics where Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Arriaga is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 1 Similar Profiles
Research Output
- 1 Chapter
-
A plea for kaleidoscopic knowledge production
Ocadiz Arriaga, M. M. A. & Kaag, M. M. A., 2019, Researching South-South development cooperation :the politics of knowledge production. London: Routledge, (Rethinking development).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review