Laura Sochas

Laura Sochas 

Postdoctoral research fellow

Affiliation: Department of Social Policy & Intervention
Expert in: Health and migration, Migrant families and children
Geographic focus: Global

Laura's work looks at how migration policies constrain Reproductive Justice in European countries, and at the effect of Reproductive Injustice on parents' health. She holds a three-year Early-Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Foundation (2022-2025). A woman's “right to choose” is a well-established principle among mainstream reproductive rights movements. “Reproductive Justice” scholars have criticised this framing for failing to include the right to have children and to parent with dignity. We know migration and family policies can severely limit these rights for poor and/or migrant families, but the health consequences of doing so are unknown. This project will set up systems to monitor how family and migration policies affect these rights in Europe, deliver major innovations in the quantitative measurement and analysis of “Reproductive Justice”, and evaluate the health consequences of limiting these reproductive freedoms.