Inès Tedjini

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Inès Tedjini

Postgraduate Researcher

Inès Tedjini is a PhD student in Law at the University of York, where she joined the department in 2025. Her doctoral project, supervised by Mattia Pinto and Martin Jones, and titled 'Understanding Genocide as a Process of Colonial Violence and Ideology to Enforce Effective Prevention: the 2015 ‘Refugee Crisis’ Case Study', examines how contemporary border regimes and migration control policies reproduce processes of structural and colonial violence that could be understood through genocide framework. Her research brings together genocide prevention, international law, critical migration studies, and decolonial theory to explore how systemic patterns of harm against displaced populations can be better conceptualised and addressed within existing legal frameworks.

Inès holds BAs in history and sociology, and a MA in International Relations & Politics, with prior research spanning the semiotics of genocide, biopolitics, human rights, and migration studies. Before beginning her PhD, she interned at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and worked as research assistant focusing on human rights.