Laura Rosa Berro Yoldi

Profile

I joined the PhD program at Leeds University Business School in October 2023. 

My doctoral research is about the Au Pairing scheme during the post-Brexit migration regime, which involves great regulatory changes for migrants. The research aims to explore and understand the life experiences and working conditions of Au Pairs after the consolidation of Brexit (from 2022). The investigation intersects work, gender, migration and class, situating in its centre the lack of worker status and the consequences for these migrants.

Preceding this PhD, I studied for the GEMMA Master’s degree in Gender Studies at the Universities of York (UK) and Granada (UK). My master’s thesis was on the situation of Au Pairs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/80304). Before the GEMMA Master’s Degree, I participated in the Municipalist Movement in Spain. Through the political group “Aranzadi Pamplona en Común – Iruña Denon Artean”, I became the City Councillor of Equality and LGBT policies of the City Council of Pamplona (Spain) in 2015. Nowadays, I collaborate with the organisation AKAFEM and the Athena SWAN Self-Assessment LUBS Team.

Research interests

Intersectional feminism: gender, migration and class.
Worker status – what is work?
Domestic work in the global economy and the care crisis: the conflict between capital / human life. 
Domestic workers and the platform economy.
The migration regime and its intersections in the United Kingdom.

Conferences 

• Exposition: “Au Pairs: from cultural exchange to recognized workers in the UK”  | During the Making Rights Reality: The Human Rights of Undocumented Migrant Workers Conference 2024 | The Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL).

Book Presentations

• Host and organiser of the online presentation of the book “The Sexist Microphysics of Power”, by Nerea Barjola | Co-organised with Patricio Simonetto, head of the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies of the University of Leeds.

Colaborations

• Translations and proofreading for PICUM (the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants)

Qualifications

• MA GEMMA Gender Studies, Universities of York and Granada
• Diplomado de Comunicación, Derechos Humanos, Género y Diversidad
• Degree in Advertising and Public Relations

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change