Coaquira, Margaret

Margaret Coaquira is a research intern at UNU-CRIS, contributing to the Nature, Climate, and Health Cluster in collaboration with the Climighealth project, under the supervision of Charlotte Scheerens and with the support of Ilse Ruyssen. She is pursuing the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Economics of Globalization and European Integration (EMJM-DEGEI), studying at Université de Lille (France), Ghent University (Belgium), and Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Italy). Her academic interests focus on migration, health, and climate change within the context of global and regional integration.

She has contributed to governmental studies in Peru, working at the Public Ministry and the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation. In these roles, she supported the development of research documents on sanitation, health, and migration, bridging economic analysis with policy challenges. She has also authored academic publications in indexed journals in recent years, reinforcing her research profile.

During her internship at UNU-CRIS, Margaret is working on the project “Visa and mobility policies in Oceania in response to climate change,” which examines how migration frameworks and visa systems address mobility challenges arising from climate change, including sea-level rise, land degradation, and extreme weather events across key countries in Oceania. By analyzing legal and policy pathways for environmentally displaced populations, her work highlights opportunities for more coordinated and equitable migration governance.