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Lisa McLean is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Her research focuses on analyses of gender, migration, and social movements. Lisa's dissertation examined how the shared experience of loss among Central American mothers of disappeared migrants serves as a resource for building solidarity and forging resistant political subjectivities.
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This chapter presents a preliminary discursive analysis of the contemporary “immigration state of emergency” (Oliviero, 2013) that was posited by the Trump administration in response to the emergence of the 2018 migrant caravans. The Trump administration's use of a rhetoric of crisis, threat and even humanitarian protection to justify punitive immi...
This article explores the struggles of Central American families of disappeared migrants to maintain hope in the search for their loved ones along the migrant route in Mexico. The militarization of borders and threats from organized crime and corrupt state authorities have led to the disappearance and death of thousands of migrants in transit in Me...
This research paper, written for the 'Canadian South East Asia Refugee Historical Research Project: Hearts of Freedom,' discusses the evolution of Canadian settlement programming beginning with the mass resettlement of Indochinese refugees. Between 1979 and 1980, 60,000 refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were resettled to Canada in the single...
Resumen: Este artículo presenta los avances de una investigación en curso sobre las caravanas de migrantes en México o los éxodos de desplazados centroamericanos-que tienen lugar desde 2011, pero que se intensificaron a partir 2018-, los cuales desafían con su presencia la gramática con la que se narran y se practican formas específicas de gubernam...
This chapter explores the contributions of feminist vulnerability theorizing through an examination of the gendered politics of migration and the gendered precarity experienced by undocumented migrants as they cross borders. Feminist analyses in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies provide not only the impetus to consider women’s experiences and...
A literature review prepared for 'The Canadian South East Asia Refugee Historical Research Project: Hearts of Freedom' on the resettlement and integration of Laotian refugees in Canada between 1975-1985.
