Publications

Published Book

Jungs de Almeida, A. (ed.). Feminist Security Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean. Publisher: Federal University of Santa Catarina, 2025. In Spanish.

Peer-reviewed articles

Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Gender and Feminisms in International Relations Teaching in Brazil. Dossier “Gender and International Relations: Latin American Women’s Perspectives on Feminisms, Institutions, and Sexualities” in the Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas e Internacionais, 2024. Portuguese.
Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra and Decol, Jocieli. Facing Gender Absence: Questioning the International Relations Curriculum from a Peripheral Feminist Perspective and Practice. Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 7, 2023.
Jungs de Almeida, A.; Vedovato, A.L. International Relations beyond the University: Popular Education as a method for communicating the field. Caminho Aberto: Revista de Extensão do IFSC, Ano 10, v. 17, 2023. Portuguese.
Jungs de Almeida, A.; Minchola, L. The “spirit of Cartagena” and the Brazilian refugee policy. Revista Perspectiva, v.8, p. 123-142, 2015. Portuguese.

Book chapters

Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra; Klein, Lauren F; D’Ignazio, Catherine. Missing Data in Keywords of the Datafied State, eds. Ranjit Singh, Jenna Burrell, and Patrick Davison (Data & Society, 2024).
Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra; Viggiano, Juliana. Reforming security institutions: implications of local actors’ incorporation on the construction of democratic security environments. In: Gilder, A., Curran, D., Holmes, G., Edu-Afful, F. (eds) Multidisciplinary Futures of UN Peace Operations. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38596-4_2
Redin, G.; Minchola, L.; Jungs de Almeida, A. The role of academia in protecting and promoting the human rights of migrants and refugees in Brazil: the outreach practice of Migraidh UFSM. In Redin, G. Migrações Internacionais. Santa Maria: UFSM, 2020. ISBN: 978-65-5716-010-7. Portuguese.
Jungs de Almeida, A. Linguistic accessibility: listening, dialogue and promotion of human rights through university. In Redin, G. Migrações Internacionais. Santa Maria: UFSM, 2020. Media: Digital. ISBN: 978-65-5716-010-7. Portuguese.
Jungs de Almeida, A. South African Legislation. In Redin, G.; Minchola, L. Imigrantes no Brasil -Proteção dos Direitos Humanos e Perspectivas Político-Jurídicas. 1 ed. Curitiba: Juruá Editora, 2015, v.1, p. 221-228. ISBN: 9788536254098. Portuguese.
Jungs de Almeida, A. Introductory Notes; Concluding Notes (Comparative Law for the Construction of a New Legal Framework on Migration) In Redin, G.; Minchola, L. Imigrantes no Brasil – Proteção dos Direitos Humanos e Perspectivas Político-Jurídicas. Curitiba: Juruá Editora, 2015, v.1, p. 237-246. ISBN: 9788536254098. Portuguese.

Reports

Cruxên, Isadora, Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Data Against Feminicide. 2025. Data Activism Against Feminicide. 36p. Queen Mary University of London. Published in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; D’Ignazio, Catherine. Data activism against feminicide: Co-designing digital tools to prevent feminicide across the Americas. Research Insights #2, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. Available at
Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; Klein, L. F.; D’Ignazio, Catherine. 2024. Dados Ausentes e Contradados. In Mariano, Silvana. Informe Feminicídios Brasil 2023: Monitor de Feminicídios no Brasil. Londrina: Editora dos Autores. ISBN: 978-65-00-95543-9.

Forthcoming

Jungs de Almeida, A.; Cruxên, I.; Radhakrishnan, R.; D’Ignazio, C. Challenging (In)Security: Missing Data and Counterdata Production About Feminicides in the Americas. In Anctil, P. (ed.) Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: Pushing the Fronteras. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2026.
Cruxên, I.; Jungs de Almeida, A.; García-Montes, M.; D’Ignazio, C.; Suresh, H. Enacting data epistemologies centered on social justice, context, pluralism and care: Data Against Feminicide in Brazil. In Walford, T. et al (ed) Data Justice in Context. Forthcoming 2026.
Jungs de Almeida, A.; D’Ignazio, C.; Cruxên, I.; Kalil, M.;Marques, R.; Mariano, S.; Siqueira, T.; Negrão, T. Data Activism and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies in the Fight Against Femicide in Brazil. In Cavalcanti, V. (ed.), Violence Against Women. EDUFBA, forthcoming 2026.

Monographs

Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Reproductive rights in Latin America: transnational activism and the evolution of abortion legalization and criminalization policies in Argentina and Brazil (2010-2022). Dissertation (PhD in International Relations). Graduate Program in International Relations, UFSC. Florianópolis, p. 278, 2024. Advisor: Mónica Salomón. Committee: Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT), Cecilia Sardenberg (UFBA), Débora Lopreite (UBA), Iara Leite (UFSC).
Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. The process of Local Ownership in Security Sector Reform: the case of Liberia (2003-2018). Thesis (Masters in International Relations). Graduate Program in International Relations, UFSC. Florianópolis, p. 142, 2020. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Juliana Viggiano.
Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Social Mobilization, Political Stability and Legitimacy: the Poro and Sande Societies in State Formation in Liberia’s Peace and Wars. Bachelor’s Thesis (Bachelor of International Relations). International Relations Course, UFSM. Santa Maria, p. 86, 2017. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Igor Castellano da Silva.

Selected Conference Presentations

Jungs de Almeida, A. Transnational Data Activism and Reproductive Rights: Feminist and Anti-Feminist Strategies in Brazil and Argentina (2010-2022). 2025. International Studies Association Conference, Chicago.
Jungs de Almeida, A. Foreign Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The cases of Argentina and Brazil (2010-2022). International Political Science Association, Buenos Aires, 2023.
Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra. Transnational Gender Activism and Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Agents, Strategies, and Campaigns in the Abortion Legalization Agenda in Latin America. To be presented in the GCWS Graduate Student Conference, March 2023, MIT & ISA 2023.
Jungs de Almeida, A. Questioning Gender in International Relations: Curriculum Analysis of Undergraduate Courses in Southern Brazil. 2022. 6th Seminar of the Brazilian Association of International Relations; USP, São Paulo/Online, Brazil.
Jungs de Almeida, A. The transnational women coalition from the Global South: the feminist strike (8M) in Argentina and Brazil (2017-2020). 2022. International Studies Association, Nashville.
Jungs de Almeida, A.; Vedovato, A. Women’s Activism in Liberia: war mediation and the peacebuilding process. 2021. International Seminar Doing Gender 12, Brazil. ISSN: 2179-510X.
Jungs de Almeida, A. International Strike of Women in South America: Dialogues and Transnational experiences between feminist movements. 2020. Thinking Gender in International Relations: 1st MaRIas Seminar, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Viggiano, J.; Jungs de Almeida, A. Similarities and differences in the Security Sector Reform (SSR). 2019. III Regional Meeting of ABED; Santa Maria, Brazil.
Jungs de Almeida, A.; Vedovato, A. Teaching International Relations beyond universities: the communication of the discipline through Popular Education. 2019. 7th Meeting of the Brazilian Association of International Relations; PUC-Minas. ISBN: 978-85-66399-10-3.
Jungs de Almeida, A . Challenges and opportunities for the process of local ownership in the context of security sector reform in peace operations. 2019. 7th Meeting of the Brazilian Association of International Relations; PUC-Minas, Brazil. ISBN: 978-85-66399-10-3.
Jungs de Almeida, A.; Bertoldo, J.; Chelotti, J. Clandestinas, Invisibles and Exploited: Migrant Women and the Brazilian State, 2018. III Latin American Conference on Refuge, Migration and Statelessness, Curitiba, Brazil.
Jungs de Almeida, A; Minchola, L.. Decoloniality in Brazil: A debate in progress, 2016. III Congress on Feminist and Postcolonial Studies, CLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina.