​Youth Migrant Detention at the Borderlands

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Amidst the militarisation of global borders and the rise of far-right governments, the international refugee system is struggling. Within it, age assessments are increasingly used as bordering practices by government officials in liberal states. Instrumentalised as routine mechanisms to determine and verify the age of asylum seekers, I ask to what extent these power techniques are informed by criminal justice discourses and racialised, gendered and ageist inequalities which disregard the rights of children as vulnerable subjects. 

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(Un)making the migrant family: gender and border regimes in Northern Mexico

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This research project explores family separation, gender and contemporary border dynamics in Ciudad Juárez–El Paso. It focuses on street-level actors and migrants who were held in state custody during their detention. It addresses their confinement in governmental care facilities, that aim to act in the best interest of people. It further explores the exposure of  migrants to gendered harms, migrant deportation and forced (im)mobilities.​

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