Jesús Rojas Venzor

Jesús E. Rojas Venzor was an IGCC Dissertation Fellow from 2024-2025. His research interests lie at the intersection of international relations and forced migration. His current work focuses on the emergence of security cooperation on migration between democratic and non-democratic states amid domestic polarization. By incorporating newly collected data on cooperation arrangements on migration, he examines foreign policy co-optation driven by right-wing populist parties in Western democracies. In other projects, he investigates the characteristics, prevalence, and outcomes of such arrangements. He is particularly interested in how democratic erosion and populist-driven foreign policy can foster dangerous co-dependencies among states. Jesús holds a B.S. in political science: data analytics and an M.A. in political science from UC San Diego. He is an active member of UC San Diego’s Race and Ethnic Politics Lab, a recipient of the San Diego and Cota Robles Fellowship, and a junior scholar at the Carnegie International Policy Scholar Consortium and Network.