The CLACLS fellowship allowed me to dedicate time to reconceptualizing my research to adapt to the new virtual reality. It also provided the space to engage my work in the current conversations, fueled by the Black Lives Matters Movement, to address systemic racism and anti-blackness. I had initially planned to attend the Carribean Studies Association…

The CLACLS Fellowship allowed me to access some online specialized workshops on film, contemporary art and photography that complement and enrich my actual interests looking forward my second examination. I was also able to. I planned a summer of archival research in Venezuela, after pandemic was declared, the country locked down and still almost every plane…

Due to the COVID my summer plans changed. I was not able to travel and visit the archives in Caracas and Bogotá I was supposed to, since all the travel restrictions and borders were (and are) closed. I was able, though, to dedicate myself to research in many digital archives throughout the world and thanks…

The CLACLS summer research grant enabled me to conduct follow-up interviews and digital archival research to analyze how the flows of state violence produced by the U.S. deportation apparatus and the Mexican migratory management converge in Tijuana’s border regime and migratory crisis. In Tijuana, Mexicans deported from the U.S. and asylum seekers attempting to cross…