Bianca Beck

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Bianca Beck is a senior majoring in Political Science and enrolled in the simultaneous BA/MA degree program in East Asian Studies. Her research interests include international human rights bodies and their interactions with national social movements and protests, political interactions between former colonies and their colonizers, and the institutions and laws set up for asylum seekers and refugees forced to migrate from their home states. Her current project looks at the 2018 protests in Nicaragua that led to the Ortega regime’s decision to make political protests illegal and the impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ ruling against the Nicaraguan government. Alongside academic work, Bianca is a member of Latina Women at Yale and Central Americans for Empowerment. She has also contributed to multiple human rights-related extracurricular projects, such as writing and researching for the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School and interning for the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar.

Areas of research and geographical interest:

Human Rights Law; Migration Rights; Political Protest Behavior; Comparative Politics; International Relations
 
Department: 
Political Science and East Asian Studies
Expected Year of Graduation: 
Class of 2023