Soledad Alvarez Velasco

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University of Chicago

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Soledad Alvarez Velasco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research primarily focuses on migration, labor, and humanitarian violence, with notable recent publications addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migration patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean. She explores themes of irregular migration, crime, and cross-border dynamics, particularly in the context of the U.S.-Mexico border and the Andean region.

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Rebecca Torres

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University of Houston

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Re-bordering life and labor during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean

Irregularized Transits to the South: A Social Force in the Cross‐Border Spatial Dispute in South America

Between ‘ <i>Trochas</i> ’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador

Conducting Research with Migrant Children Impacted by Humanitarian Violence at the U.S.–Mexico Border

Migration and Crime in a Divided World: Strategies, Perceptions, and Struggles

“Por trocha”: Circumventing the Episodical Criminalization of Migration in the Andes

Más allá del Darién. Economía Política de la Migración en Tránsito por el Corredor Migratorio Región Andina-Centroamérica

“A Mass Exodus in Rebellion” – The Migrant Caravans: A View from the Eyes of Honduran Journalist Inmer Gerardo Chévez

Circulations and Solidarities in the Darién

Towards a systemic theory of irregular migration. Explaining Ecuadorian irregular migration in Amsterdam and Madrid

“En el camino, ¿si nosotras no cuidamos, quién entonces?”. Mujeres, epidemiología popular migrante y economía del cuidado en los corredores migratorios de las Américas en tiempos de COVID-19

Deportees in Transit Between Ecuador and the US: A Historical and Ethnographic Approach to Migrant Disobedience and its Spatial Impacts

Cuando los sujetos se mueven de su lugar: Una interrogación al extractivismo y la movilidad en la ecología política latinoamericana

Ilegalizados en Ecuador, el país de la “ciudadanía universal”

Noelle K. Brigden, The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2018), pp. vii + 264, £67.28; $86.95, hb, £19.31; $24.95, pb.

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Rebecca Torres

Nicholas De Genova

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