CANCELLED Soledad Alvarez Velasco

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Tuesday 22 September 2020

Soledad Alvarez Velasco (University of Houston)

Dr. Álvarez Velasco’s research investigates the nexus between irregularized transit migration, violence, and the capitalist state, particularly in the case of the extended migratory corridor from Ecuador through Mexico to the United States, and focuses on the production of Ecuador as a global space of transit used by Ecuadorean deportees as well as irregularized migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean Region moving towards the United States.  Her research draws from perspectives in critical geography, critical migration and border studies, and feminist political geography.  It combines a historical analysis with three types of ethnography:  extended ethnographic fieldwork among migrants and deportees in Ecuador, a trajectory ethnography of migrants’ mobility projects, and, an ethnography of migrants’ digital space.  Her research foregrounds the Andean Region, particularly Ecuador, as a key space for understating the dynamics at stake in the configuration of the extended migratory corridor extending from South America to the United States.  Her work also analyzes how the externalization of U.S. border enforcement policies in South American states, together with the inconsistencies in their own national migration policies, serve a systemic global formation of selective mobility control.

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