MMB has an active group of members researching migration and mobility related issues in Latin America. These scholars came together as the MMB Latin America working group during 2019-2020 and here their work is profiled together for the first time.
Diego Acosta Arcarazo
Professor of European and Migration Law, University of Bristol Law School
Diego works on contemporary migration and citizenship law and its history in Latin America.
Roddy Brett
Senior Lecturer of Politics, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Roddy researches political violence, genocide and the displacement of communities in Guatemala and Colombia.
Matthew Brown
Professor in Latin American History, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Matthew works on migration and mobilities in the fields of sports history, historical journeys and story-telling.
Jo Crow
Senior Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Jo investigates the movement of ideas about race through transnational intellectual networks in Latin America.
Maria Paula Escobar-Tello
Lecturer, Bristol Veterinary School
Maria Paula’s work moves across several disciplines in exploring the tensions and intersections between livestock farming and the environment, mainly in Colombia and Argentina.
Edward King
Senior Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Ed’s work examines the ways in which technologies, images and ideas move across national borders, whether driven by the transnational flows of networked digital cultures or Latin America’s complex histories of migration.
Rebecca Kosick
Lecturer, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Rebecca examines aesthetic and literary migrations in the American Hemisphere, including studies of translation, Mail Art and other forms of mobile poetic production.
José Lingna Nafafé
Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
José’s research explores past and present migration, including forced migration from Africa to the Atlantic world and voluntary contemporary migration from Africa to Europe.
Angelo Martins Junior
Research Associate, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Angelo works on mobility and migration in labour markets, and their processes of social differentiation, exploitation and violence.
Paul Merchant
Lecturer in Latin American Film and Visual Culture, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Paul uses different cultural media to interrogate local understandings of bodies of water in Latin America, and the movement across them.
Naomi Millner
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geographical Sciences
Naomi’s work explores how the creation of new conservation practices and protected areas intersect with aspects of citizenship, land rights and forced migration in Central America and Colombia, with a special focus on the role of environmental monitoring technologies (eg. drones) in producing surveillance data.
Camilla Morelli
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Camilla works with indigenous children and youth moving between rural and urban areas to understand the impact of radical socioeconomic change on Amerindian societies.
Simon Palominos
PhD student, Department of Music
Simon’s work addresses the intersections between class, gender and racialised discourses in the reception of contemporary migrants in Chile and in the development of cultural policies in the country.
Julia Paulson
Associate Professor in Education, Peace and Conflict, School of Education
Julia is interested in migration, mobility and education, including how ideas (particularly about the past) circulate in and beyond educational spaces.
Amy Penfield
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Amy explores how the mobility of indigenous peoples and illegal miners in lowland areas is impacted by the local political economy of raw material extraction.
Rachel Randall
Lecturer in Hispanic Media and Digital Communications, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Rachel is interested in paid domestic workers’ experiences of rural-urban migration in Latin America and in cultural representations of global care chains produced by Latin(x) American artists.
Anamaria Santos Fonseca Sousa
Assistant Teacher and PhD Student, University of Bristol Law School
Anamaria’s research focuses on forced migration, ethnicity, integration and citizenship and hostile environment, sex work, women’s rights, intersectionality and Marxist feminism. Her research is focused in the United Kingdom, Brazil and the rest of South America.
Isidora Urrutia Steinert
PhD student, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Isidora’s work explores the material cultures and identity disputes in and of Chilean roads and highways as infrastructures of/for movement and mobility, analysing the relationships between movement, materiality, everyday aesthetics, and identities in public spaces.