Collaborative Research - Working Groups

Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics

Led by: Jeffrey H. Cohen (Anthropology) and Ignacio Corona (Spanish and Portuguese)

This working group fosters a dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities and invites participation from the College of Agriculture and the Fisher School of Business with the goal of advancing interdisciplinary scholarship and research. Globalization is responsible for much of current migratory trends as well as for destabilizing local identities and rearticulating them in new environments and contexts. This working group integrates cultural, economic, social and humanistic perspectives in the discussion of transnationalism. The interrelationship of these concepts articulates a continuum of social, cultural and political processes that contextualize the impact of transnationalism throughout the Americas. Our dialogue invites comparative approaches and interregional studies.