Emilio González

Emilio González has a degree in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. He holds an MA in Political Science from El Colegio de México. He also completed master’s studies in international relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In his academic work he has specialized in forced displacement due to violence and armed conflict, as well as humanitarian action and peacebuilding. His research has been published in international journals such as the Stanford International Policy Review and in Mexico in the Journal of International Relations of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has written in physical and digital media with national circulation such as Reforma, Horizontal, Nexos; and was a permanent collaborator of Paradigmas Magazine. He has also taught courses on peacebuilding and humanitarian action at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City. Since August 2016, he works in the UNHCR Protection Unit in Mexico. He currently coordinates the UNHCR strategy against racism, xenophobia and discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico.