Gioconda Herrera
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Fall 2023
Research focus while a CERC Scholar - Intersectional Approaches to transnational Migration: Regional perspectives
South America has undergone several transformations in the dynamics of its international migration flows. While the second half of the twentieth century was characterized by South-North migration, particularly from the Andean Region to the US and Europe; and by transborder migrations within Latin America, the twenty-first century brought about an important diversification of destinations and added complexity to the structural causes of migration as well as to migrants鈥� motivations and decision-making to migrate. Such dynamics were accentuated during the pandemic and States鈥� responses to this new situation also evolved in different ways.
Giocanda鈥檚 research at CERC Migration will look at continuities and dislocations in migration patterns in South America and how they relate to previous conditions of precarious social integration and increasing xenophobia. Her work will examine the formation of complex mobility assemblages that include internal migration, transit migration and return as new ways of dealing with survival and social reproduction in the post COVID-19 age.
Related to CERC research theme: The Governance of Migration in a Globalising World (opens in new window)
Career Achievements
Gioconda Herrera is Professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador. Her research and publications have revolved around questions about the effects of globalization on social inequalities in Latin America from a gender perspective, for which she has looked at Andean migration to Europe and the United States, especially of women and Indigenous peoples, and also at the migratory returns and circularities that have taken place as a result of the global economic crisis. She currently is investigating the post-deportation life of Indigenous migrants in rural communities of Ecuador, and is part of a comparative research team of eight countries on Venezuelan migration in Latin America. Gioconda was Vice-deputy Academic Director of FLACSO for the period 2014-2016, she was Associate Editor of the Latin American Research Review in the area of Sociology and she was President of the Latin American Studies Association for the period 2020 to 2021.
Relevant Publications
(2022) (ed. with Carmen G贸mez) . Springer- IMISCOE. Serie Regional Migration.
(2022) (eds.) (with Eduardo Domenech and Liliana Rivera S谩nchez). CLACSO -Editorial Siglo XXI. Serie Miradas Latinoamericanas.
(2022) with Maria Cristina Carrillo Espinosa & Ruth Lara. . International Migration. First online Published: 17 October
(2022) with Ulla Berg. Transnational Families and Return in the Age of Deportation: The case of Indigenous Ecuadorian Migrants. Global Network. 22:1, Pgs. 36-50
(2022) with Vera Espinoza, M., Prieto Rosas, V., Zapata, G.P., Gandini, L., Fern谩ndez de la Reguera, A., Herrera, G., L贸pez, S., Zamora, C., Blouin, C., Montiel, C., Cabezas, G., Palla, I. . Comparative Migration Studies. (2021) 9:52.
(2019) . En Revista Migraciones Internacionales. 10 (19). Colegio de la Frontera Norte. M茅xico.
(2019). . In Bada, X., Feldmann, A. & Sch眉tze, S. (Eds.), New Migration Patterns in the Americas: Challenges for the 21st Century. Palgrave, Migration and Citizenship series.
(2019) with Cabezas, G. . En L. Gandini, F. Lozano, & V. Prieto (Eds.), Crisis y migraci贸n de poblaci贸n venezolana - Entre la desprotecci贸n y la seguridad jur铆dica en Latinoam茅rica. UNAM.
(2016) . Revista Am茅rique Latine: Histoire et M茅moires. Les Cahiers ALHIM (en l铆nea). No. 31, June.
(2013) . Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 39. Pg. 471-489.
(2012) . In Feminist Economics, 18(2). April 2012. Special Issue: Gender and International Migration. Routledge. Taylor and Francis. Pg.125-148.