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Humanity & Society, 2024
Social conditions force migrants to pursue mass mobilization and transit through Latin America to... more Social conditions force migrants to pursue mass mobilization and transit through Latin America to the Mexico-United States border. Mainstream media continues to sensationalize the migrant caravans. Research concerning the experiences of individuals in caravans remains underdeveloped. A question remains about how women experience transit in a mass caravan migration. This study uses a migrant feminist standpoint to capture women's perspectives within the 2018 Central American migrant caravans. In 2019, a qualitative analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews with migrant participants primarily from Central America and fieldwork observation was conducted in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Caravans provide a realistic alternative avenue for migration. Migration is a gendered process where women resist state violence. Reaching the Tijuana border is a success, but it comes at a detrimental cost for women, including experiencing deception, social class inequalities, and distrust. Humanitarian responses to the migrant caravans benefit from adopting a gender-conscious action-based practice.
Researching in the Age of COVID-19, 2020
As researchers continue to adapt, conduct and design their research in the presence of COVID-19, ... more As researchers continue to adapt, conduct and design their research in the presence of COVID-19, new opportunities to connect research creativity and ethics have opened up. Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways -adapting data collection methods, fostering researcher and community resilience, and exploring creative research methods. This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, explores dimensions of creativity and ethics, highlighting their connectedness. It has three parts: the first covers creative approaches to researching. The second considers concerns around research ethics and ethics more generally, and the final part addresses different ways of approaching creativity and ethics through collaboration and co-creation. The other two books focus on Response and Reassessment, and Care and Resilience. Together they help academic, applied and practitioner-researchers worldwide adapt to the new challenges COVID-19 brings.
Journal of Family Violence
BRILL eBooks, Nov 4, 2022
REDER, 2021
Este artículo propone el uso de una perspectiva de desastre para una exploración teórica y ens... more Este artículo propone el uso de una perspectiva de desastre para una exploración teórica y ensayística sobre la migración en tránsito desde México hacia los Estados Unidos y que analiza el fenómeno más allá de una crisis migratoria o una amenaza de seguridad nacional. La reflexión teórica se basa en una investigación etnográfica centrada en el análisis de relatos periodísticos y observaciones presenciales y virtuales realizadas entre 2018 y 2020 en la frontera México-Estados Unidos. Las y los migrantes en tránsito enfrentan un ‘desastre migratorio’ con factores subyacentes como son la militarización, la securitización y la externalización de las fronteras. Además, legados históricos de racismo y anti-negritud y el contexto contemporáneo de la pandemia de COVID-19, son factores que refuerzan los impactos de manera concurrente y simultáneamente con el control migratorio. Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, las y los migrantes continúan siendo racializados y son ...
Humanity & Society, 2024
Social conditions force migrants to pursue mass mobilization and transit through Latin America to... more Social conditions force migrants to pursue mass mobilization and transit through Latin America to the Mexico-United States border. Mainstream media continues to sensationalize the migrant caravans. Research concerning the experiences of individuals in caravans remains underdeveloped. A question remains about how women experience transit in a mass caravan migration. This study uses a migrant feminist standpoint to capture women's perspectives within the 2018 Central American migrant caravans. In 2019, a qualitative analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews with migrant participants primarily from Central America and fieldwork observation was conducted in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Caravans provide a realistic alternative avenue for migration. Migration is a gendered process where women resist state violence. Reaching the Tijuana border is a success, but it comes at a detrimental cost for women, including experiencing deception, social class inequalities, and distrust. Humanitarian responses to the migrant caravans benefit from adopting a gender-conscious action-based practice.
Researching in the Age of COVID-19, 2020
As researchers continue to adapt, conduct and design their research in the presence of COVID-19, ... more As researchers continue to adapt, conduct and design their research in the presence of COVID-19, new opportunities to connect research creativity and ethics have opened up. Researchers around the world have responded in diverse, thoughtful and creative ways -adapting data collection methods, fostering researcher and community resilience, and exploring creative research methods. This book, part of a series of three Rapid Responses, explores dimensions of creativity and ethics, highlighting their connectedness. It has three parts: the first covers creative approaches to researching. The second considers concerns around research ethics and ethics more generally, and the final part addresses different ways of approaching creativity and ethics through collaboration and co-creation. The other two books focus on Response and Reassessment, and Care and Resilience. Together they help academic, applied and practitioner-researchers worldwide adapt to the new challenges COVID-19 brings.
Journal of Family Violence
BRILL eBooks, Nov 4, 2022
REDER, 2021
Este artículo propone el uso de una perspectiva de desastre para una exploración teórica y ens... more Este artículo propone el uso de una perspectiva de desastre para una exploración teórica y ensayística sobre la migración en tránsito desde México hacia los Estados Unidos y que analiza el fenómeno más allá de una crisis migratoria o una amenaza de seguridad nacional. La reflexión teórica se basa en una investigación etnográfica centrada en el análisis de relatos periodísticos y observaciones presenciales y virtuales realizadas entre 2018 y 2020 en la frontera México-Estados Unidos. Las y los migrantes en tránsito enfrentan un ‘desastre migratorio’ con factores subyacentes como son la militarización, la securitización y la externalización de las fronteras. Además, legados históricos de racismo y anti-negritud y el contexto contemporáneo de la pandemia de COVID-19, son factores que refuerzan los impactos de manera concurrente y simultáneamente con el control migratorio. Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, las y los migrantes continúan siendo racializados y son ...