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SUMMARY:Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latin American & Latino Studies, “Inhabiting the Transit: Migrant Spatial Struggles from Global South America to the U.S.”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Soledad �lvarez Velasco is a social anthropologist and human geographer analyzing the interrelationship between mobility, control, and spatial transformations across the Americas. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from King?s College London. Before joining the University of Illinois Chicago in January 2023 as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies, she was an Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University. She is the author of Frontera sur chiapaneca: El muro humano de la violencia�(Mexico: CIESAS-UIA, 2016) and co-editor of Luchas Migrantes en Tiempos Pand�micos y de Crisis (Puerto Rico: Editorial Educaci�n Emergente, 2025). Her research has appeared in Geopolitics, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Studies in Social Justice, Antipode, Migration and Society, and the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She co-founded and co-coordinated the transnational digital projects (Im)Mobilities in the Americas�(2020) and Children on the Move: An Ethnographic Mosaic of the Americas, funded by the National Geographic Society (2019).    Learn more about this lecture. | Event post: https://las.uic.edu/events?page_id=22243
LOCATION:Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St.  Chicago IL 60607
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