This seminar will explore the dynamics of border and migration control in Mexico, with Alethia Fernández de la Reguera presenting her paper on internal and temporary borders in Mexico and Erika Herrera Rosales reflecting on the paper through her own work, in particular her recently published monograph Ambivalent Humanitarianism (Routlege).

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Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo is a full-time researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Coordinator of the National Laboratory on Diversities of UNAM and of the Institutional Research Track: Rights, Migrations and Mobilities. She is currently a visiting scholar at the School of Law of the University of Warwick with the project The effects of border militarisation in Mexico and Poland on the international protection and human rights of migrants. In 2021 she received the National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars 2021 in the area of social science research. She is Affiliate Faculty at the University of Arizona M.A. Human Rights Practice. Specialist in gender and migration, immigration detention, bureaucracies, gender violence and women´s autonomy.

Erika Herrera Rosales is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She received her PhD in Sociology from the same university. Her doctoral research explored the role of NGOs and Central American migrants. She was awarded with an Early Career Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Studies and is currently an Associate Fellow there. Her forthcoming book “Ambivalent humanitarianism: Colonial legacies, migration control and the experiences of migrants in Mexico” focuses on global migration, bordering practices and deterrence practices of humanitarian workers from a postcolonial and decolonial perspectives.