Gerardo Javier Arriaga Garcia is a Research Officer at the University of Birmingham. Before conducting his PhD research, Dr. Gerardo Arriaga was a government official working for the National Commission for the Refuggee Aid in Mexico where he received, analysed and decided the refugee status of asylum seekers. He was also a policy maker when he worked as a director of innovation and modernisation at the General Comptroller’s Office of Mexico City in Mexico.