Soledad Álvarez Velasco, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Latin American & Latino Studies
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Contact
Building & Room:
UH 1523
Address:
601 S Morgan St
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About
I am a social anthropologist and human geographer whose research analyses the interrelationship between mobility, control and spatial transformations across the Americas. My research investigates the intersection between undocumented global south-north and global south-south transit migration, border regimes, the formation of migratory corridors across the Americas and the migrant struggle across these transnational spaces. I combine a multi-scale and historical analysis with multi-sited ethnography and a digital ethnography based on a migrant-centered perspective to reconstruct migrants’ spatial and temporal trajectories. I foreground the Andean Region as a key space for understating the dynamics at stake in the transits of Latin American, Caribbean, African and Asian migrants to reach the U.S., or other southern cone and Caribbean destinations. I also analyze the impact of the externalization of the U.S. border regime across the migratory corridors of the Americas, the movement of unaccompanied and undocumented migrant children, as well as the dynamics of transnational migrant smuggling networks operating across those transnational spaces.
Education
PhD in Human Geography from King’s College London
MS in Social Anthropology from Universidad Iberoamericana de México
BA in in Sociology (concentration on Latin American Studies) and Liberal Arts (concentration on Philosophy and Literature) from Universidad San Francisco de Quito