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…

In summer 2019, I travelled to my home country, Colombia, thanks to a CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowships. It provided me with the resources to do archival work in Bogota, as well as to draft a paper for my second exam and to outline a presentation for an international conference. As a graduate student working in…

Thanks to the funding provided by CLACLS, I made a two-month-long research trip to Colombia in the summer. I visited the General Archive of the Nation in Bogota, where the official documentation from the Ministry of Public Works is deposited. Additionally, I visited Puerto Leguizamo—in the department of Putumayo—and Leticia—in the department of Amazonas—where I…

I am a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures program. The Summer TravelFellowship 19 allowed me to spend five weeks in Santiago, Chile, conducting preliminary data-collection for my dissertation project. Thanks to the CLACLS Fellowship, I was able to visit several public archives such as Archivo Histórico Nacional, Archivo General del…