Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a sociologist at the University of Hamburg. She researches, publishes and teaches in the areas of Migration Research, Gender, Queer and Postcolonial Studies. Her publications include 'Techniques of Representation - On Subjectivity, Recognition and Subalternity' (2002), 'Boundaries of Performativity' (2001), 'Intellectual Migrants: Subjecivities in the Age of Globalisation" (1999).