Andrea Pacheco Pacifico

About Andrea Pacheco Pacifico

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico been an international lawyer since 1993, with expertise in International Human Rights Law, particularly human rights of refugees and forced migrants, since 1997. She has been an associate professor for Law and International Relations at Maceio, Brasilia, and Joao Pessoa universities since 1997. She has taught International Law/Relations, Human Rights, and Refugee and Migration Issues for more than two decades. She has also presented seminars, given lectures and interviews, published papers, supervised theses and dissertations on these issues, and my own research principally focuses on human rights of legal minorities and human rights protections of refugees and legal minorities in Brazil and abroad. Currently, She is a full-time associate professor in International Relations at Paraiba State University and a full-time collaborator/researcher at the Post-Graduate Program in Comparative Studies on the Americas, at University of Brasilia, both in Brazil, in addition to being a Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative at University of London, UK. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the York University Centre for Refugee Studies, Canada (2009 to 2010), visiting research fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, UK (2010 to 2011), visiting research fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, UK (2020-2021), and visiting fellow at the GEES of the University of Birmingham (2024 to 2025).