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While I have wide ranging interests in development and critical human geography, I currently focus on youth migration in Latin America and the U.S./Mexico border region. In recent years, I have worked extensively with migrants in Mexican and American immigration detention centres. My research explores issues surrounding youth, rights, inequality, and violence.

My past research includes work concerning: street children, street vendors and beggars; policing and zero tolerance; research ethics and methodologies; identity, power and inequality; pedagogy and geographic education; and environmental policy. My geographic focus is also broad and I have undertaken field research in Honduras, Mexico and Ecuador, as well as China, Vietnam, and Scotland.

Given my current research interests, I welcome students interested in youth, migration, asylum, and/or immigration detention, particularly in Latin America and the US/Mexico border region. However, I am open to other topics as well; please don鈥檛 hesitate to get in touch.

Books:

Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011. New York: Routledge.

Swanson, Kate. 2010. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2010. 听 Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)-Abya Yala.

Select Articles and Chapters:

Torres, Rebecca Maria,听Kate Swanson,听Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Sarah Blue. 2022.听Bordering through Care and Control: Policing and Sheltering Central American Migrant Youth in Mexico.听Political Geography.听98: 102719.听

Torres, Rebecca Maria, Sarah Blue, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura,听Kate Swanson. 2022.听鈥淎sylum is not for Mexicans鈥�: Unaccompanied youth and racio-governance at the US border.听Geopolitics.听

Ciborowski, Haley M., Samantha Hurst, Ramona L. Perez,听Kate Swanson, Eric Leas, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Holly Baker Shakya. 2022. Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those 鈥渓eft-behind鈥� in rural, Indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala.听Journal of Migration and Health. Volume 5, 100096,听听

Delgado, Emanuel and Kate Swanson.听 2021. Journal of Urban Affairs. 43: 925-940.

Wood, Lydia, Kate Swanson and Don Colley. 2020. T. ACME. 19(2):424-447.

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment. Pages 191-206 in , 4^th edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Urban ethnography. Pages 57-73 in , 2^nd Edition. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2019. . Journal of Latin American Geography. 18 (3): 176-187.

Askins, Kye and Kate Swanson. 2019. . Emotion, Space and Society. 33. 100617.

Gilliam, Shea Ellen and Kate Swanson. 2019. Gender, Place and Culture. 27: 903-911.

Thompson, Amy, Rebecca M. Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue & 脫scar Misael Hern谩ndez Hern谩ndez. 2019.听.听Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.听45:听235-252.

Swanson, Kate. 2018. . Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108: 390-398.

Wood, Lydia, David Kamper and Kate Swanson. 2018. . 50: 137-145. 听

Swanson, Kate and Rebecca M. Torres. 2016. . Journal of Latin American Geography. 15: 23-48.

Swanson, Kate. 2018. Street vendors in Latin America. J. Cupples, M. Palomina-Schalsch and M. Prieto (Eds.). London: Routledge.

Mackie, Peter, Kate Swanson and Ryan Goode. 2017.听 Reclaiming space: street trading and revanchism in Latin America. Pages 63-76 in A. Brown (Ed). London: Routledge.

Swanson, Kate, Rebecca M. Torres, Amy Thompson, Sarah Blue and Oscar Misael Hern谩ndez Hern谩ndez. 2015. . NACLA Report on the Americas.

For more publications, see my profile. If you鈥檇 like copies of any of these articles or chapters, please don鈥檛 hesitate to reach out.

Select Media Coverage:

Moran, Padraig. 2019. How letters from migrants shed light on the 'intolerable' conditions inside U.S. detention centres. CBC News. April 23, 2019.

Pettit, Emma. 2019. 鈥楤egging to Have Their Stories Told鈥�: San Diego State Professors Create Living Archive of Migrants鈥� Letters From Detention. The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 13, 2021.

Robbins, Liz. 2019. 鈥楢 Light for Me in the Darkness鈥�: For Migrant Detainees, a Bond Forged by Letter. The New York Times. February 7, 2019.

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