Sheila Fernandez Miguez is a criminal law and criminology researcher with a feminist and de-colonial perspective. She is part of the ECRIM research group on crime, legal psychology and criminal justice in the 21st century of the University of A Coruña and associate researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute of the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has developed her career between Europe and Latin America, especially in Chile where she did her PhD dissertation and where her investigations are mainly situated, focusing on the discrimination towards indigenous women caused by a western-oriented justice system, specifically against Mapuche indigenous women as survivors of patriarchal violence. Sheila’s latest publications are: the book chapter “Se é machista, non é xustiza“ (Male justice is no justice), written together with Iria Vasquez Silva, in the book “Cómplices. A violencia machista institucional” (Accomplishes. Institutional male violence) (2020) published by Galaxia, and the article co-authored together with Juan Jorge Faundez Peñafiel "Emergencia de las mujeres indígenas. Debates sobre género, etnicidad e identidad cultural" (Emergencies of indigenous women. Debates on gender, ethnicity and cultural identity) (2019) published in the Revista de Derechoo y Ciencia Políticaof the Catholic University of Temuco, 10 (2), pp. 53-96.