Yaatsil Guevara- Doctor of Philosophy
- Junior Professor at Heidelberg University
Yaatsil Guevara
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Junior Professor at Heidelberg University
Junior Professor "Migration and the Americas"
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies
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Introduction
Yaatsil Guevara González is an anthropologist and an ethnographer. Through her academic training, she has worked in diverse disciplines such as area studies, sociology of migration, and anthropology of everyday life. Her research focuses on forced migration flows across the Americas. She is interested in exploring how migratory regimes affect and is echoed in the everyday lives of migrants, as well as understanding the spatial connotations of irregularized migration.
Current institution
Heidelberg University
Current position
- Junior Professor
Additional affiliations
May 2021 - September 2022
March 2019 - May 2021
Education
October 2013 - September 2022
August 2007 - August 2009
September 2001 - February 2006
Publications
Publications (15)
Based on ethnographic research, this research explores how migratory regimes affect and echo migrants' everyday life. For this, Yaatsil Guevara González investigated the daily lives of Central American migrants on the move, asylum seekers, and recognized refugees in a migrant shelter in Mexico’s southern border. Throughout the thesis, she explored...
En esta contribución analizo la incertidumbre y la condición
de inmovilidad durante periodos prolongados experimentadas por
migrantes irregularizados y solicitantes de refugio durante su tránsito en la frontera sur. Desde una perspectiva antropológica, expongo
cuáles son algunas tácticas y estrategias temporales que surgen en la vida cotidiana de p...
This article presents research from an ethnographic investigation of the role of the men and women who facilitate clandestine border crossings (known colloquially as coyotes) in the Mexico-Guatemala northern borderlands. A significant portion of the fieldwork took place at La 72, a renowned migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Tenosique, i...
El presente artículo ofrece una aproximación descriptiva de las casas de migrantes en la ruta migratoria del pacífico sur de México. En los últimos años, la migración de tránsito en dicho país ha captado la atención de la prensa nacional e internacional, así como de organismos defensores de derechos humanos debido, principalmente, a la constante vi...
