Dr Yemisi Sloane
Dr Yemisi Sloane is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex with a thesis entitled Hostile Environment, Intimate Partner Violence and Resilience among Migrant Nigerian Women in the UK. Her thesis looked at the gendered impact of the UK's hostile environment immigration policy, focusing on the intersections of power, belonging and resistance in the women's experiences of intimate partner violence. Prior to her PhD, she obtained a Masters degree (LLM) in Human Rights Law at Birkbeck, University of London, and her undergraduate degree in Law (LLB) at the University of Benin, Nigeria, West Africa. She also qualified as a Barrister at the Nigeria Law School in Lagos, Nigeria.
Dr Sloane primarily concentrates her research on the Global South, with a specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africans both in their home countries and in the diaspora.
Dr Yemisi Sloane's research interests focuses primarily on the Global South and centres around:
-Gender-based violence against women and girls from sub-Saharan Africa, including domestic violence and female genital mutilation (FGM)
- Decoloniality, specifically epistemic decoloniality and injustice, feminist and decolonial jurisprudence, legacies of decoloniality.
- The sociology of race and racial injustice, including racialised spaces, anti-blackness, racial stereotypes and media representations, and critical race theory.
- Social connectedness,specifically on how marginalised identities establish and sustain social connections and relationships.
- Migration and border violence
