Estefanía Castañeda Pérez, PhD
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California
Areas of Expertise: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, International Relations, Mixed Methods, Border Politics and Policing
Estefanía Castañeda Pérez investigates how Latinx communities experience the law through policing and surveillance systems, and the consequences of these experiences on their racialization, well-being, and legal consciousness. Her work centers on perspectives of Latinx transborder commuters, who are U.S. citizens and non-citizens that reside in Mexican border cities but regularly cross the border to the U.S. for work, education, or commerce. Her research has been supported by numerous associations such as the USC Center for International Studies, American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Castañeda Pérez’s work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, International Migration Review, Migrant Children and Youth: Wellbeing and Integration Around the World, and in academic blogs such as NACLA and the NYU Latinx Project Intervenxions Blog.
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