Tania DoCarmo

Tania DoCarmo is a doctoral student in Sociology, entering her fourth year of study. Her research interests are in sociology of culture, representation, migration, human rights, humanitarian ethics, global inequality, law and society. She is currently working on multiple collaborative projects with faculty and peers on storytelling for advocacy more generally, and the experience of detained migrants in California, in addition to individual projects on the international institutionalization of human trafficking as a contemporary social problem, tensions between international discourses on “crime” and “rights,” and the experiences of trafficking survivors in Cambodia during and after receiving assistance from law enforcement and social service providers. Prior to doctoral studies, she worked ten years for international NGOs in Brazil, Cambodia and the US on projects related to violence, human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Email: tdocarmo@uci.edu