This project builds a binational interdisciplinary working group of scholars and advocates focused on displaced Mexican Migrant/Refugee children and youth.
About Us
Through the development of feminist geographic ethnography of immigration hearings this research advances courtroom ethnography by attending to the affective, intimate, and bodily politics of courtroom subjects, spaces, and moments, and linkages with broader structural processes of legal, socio-cultural, political, and economic life. Additionally, through participatory approaches we develop child-centered methodological tools specific to migrant/refugee populations that will facilitate integration of youth perspectives into wider migration studies.
Principle Investigators
Rebecca Maria Torres is associate professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest include (im)migration, Children/Youth Geographies, Gender, Feminist Geography, and Activist/Engaged Scholarship.
Jeremy Slack is an Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas, El Paso. His research is focused on deportation and the problems forced removal creates for individuals and their families, the connections to place that are severed and how it has intersected with drug related violence on the border.
Doctorado en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales con mención en Sociología. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Doctora en Ciencias Sociales. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Glockner Fagetti is a Mexican anthropologist affiliated with the Child Research Observatory at El Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico. She specializes in the anthropology of childhood, migration, and state-NGO relations.
Dr. Faria is a feminist political and cultural geographer. She uses intersectional feminist approaches to understand nationalism and neoliberal globalization, with a focus on the Gulf-East African regions.
Research Assistants
Alicia Danze’s Master’s research for UT's Latin American Studies program focused on the difficulties that Central American migrants encountered in navigating Mexico’s immigration administrative systems during the enactment of Programa Frontera Sur.
Alyssa Ramos
Alyssa is a fourth year International Relations and Global Studies Major (IRG) with a focus on International Security. She is dedicated to alleviating issues surrounding immigrant and refugee policies, the dangers of intersectional oppression, and the erasure of mental illnesses in her community.
Dominica Whitesell
Dominica is a Masters student in the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT Austin. Her research examines the global second hand clothing industry and its political, economic and socio-cultural expression in Uganda, focusing on how this trade demonstrates very gendered and racial inequalities.
Suzanne Nimoh
Suzanne is a Masters student in the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT Austin. Her research focuses on the manipulation of the built and natural environment and its contribution to belonging and exclusion through maintaining colonial legacies.
Priscilla Lugo
Juan Tiney-Chirix
Esther Ramos
Jorge is a PhD candidate in the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin, who specializes in International Migration, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Aid System in Central America and Mexico.
Julia is a Master’s student in the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT Austin. Her research explores the effects of nationalist political discourses on the perception and creation of borders, looking specifically at the United States boundary with Mexico.
Alyssa Morales
Alyssa is a Psychology major at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in studying how race, class, gender, and power perspectives affect current communities around the world. She plans to graduate in the Spring of 2022 and pursue a graduate degree.
Meena Pyatt
Temi Ajibola
Interns
Paulina Cottom
Crystal Rodriquez
Maria Josee Tanori
Johnathan Eduardo Verdugo Doumerc
Edith Herrera
Alma Reynoso
Paulina Rojas
Transcribers
Alina Guadalupe Choy Gómez
Karla Edith Pacheco Montes
Nayara Gutiérrez Guzmán
Marielvis Calzada Torres
Web Design
Lynn Huynh
Lynn Huynh is a writer, designer, and researcher whose practice explores food justice and design systems in the urban built environment.
Mahboobe Safaei Mehr
Mahboobe Safaei is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested to study and know more about gendered issues in the Middle East.