Research
Fernanda Rangel

Fernanda Rangel

Rights Lab and British Academy Visiting Fellow in Labour Exploitation and Econometric Approaches

Email: fernanda.rangel1@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr. Fernanda Rangel is a Visting Fellow in the Rights Lab's Law and Policy Programme, funded by the British Academy in its Visiting Fellowships Programme for 2023. Her fellowship focuses on labour exploitation in South America and takes an econometric approach to understand regional trafficking dynamics. It is using econometric models to under the drivers for human trafficking in the region. The research will determine major trafficking routes and the push and pull socio-economic factors for the region. Dr Rangel is an economist who specialises in normative economics and modern slavery, and a founder-member of the Brazil-based anti-trafficking NGO Dignitate, which tackles human trafficking, modern slavery, and exploitation of adults and children.

Research Projects

Labour Exploitation in South America: An Econometric Approach

 

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