I published an adapted reflection I did as a keynote speech at the international franco-british conference 'New perspectives on migration in Latin America'. I used the concept of encruzilhada to muddle binary categories of migration looking at the Darien Gap.

conservancy.umn.edu/items/e55dc0...

Today I visited Centro32, such an amazing organisation providing support for migrants in Tijuana, particularly solo women, single moms, children/teenagers, and LGBT+ people.

Today I've been to the La Casita de la UT in Tijuana, a shelter for displaced trans women coming through, to and deported to Tijuana - and also a welcoming place offering amazing services (and activism) to the trans and/or sex worker community of the city. Thanks to Susana for the warm welcome

Overheard a conversation today in England and a woman said: 'i will never take the kids to the middle of the jungle in bloody south america'. So here are examples of me in the middle of the jungle in 3 diff countries in bloody south America:

Me: not even 1% nationalistic
Also me: omg a gigantic Havaianas in the middle of Cornwall I wonder how much it'd be to bring it to my flat also can you please take a picture of us both thank you

Here's how you get your chocolate: you buy it. Here's how I get mine: I become friends with someone that makes them, then bring them organic cacao from Latin America (this one from ElSalva) and they turn it into chocolate (this one with fresh allotment raspberries - and a Portuguese name!)

This essay has two parts. One personal, the other more political. Both are intertwined & discuss migrants' linguistic experiences of unbelonging and the unequal power relations that underpin this linguistic out-of-place-ness.

open.substack.com/pub/nataliac...

a bit of work and a bit of play in El Salvador. Gracias a la Federación Luterana Mundial por la bienvenida y la oportunidad de realizar una investigación tan interesante sobre las nuevas dinámicas migratorias de la región. Ojalá podamos trabajar juntos más veces 🙏

Out now! ⚠️⚠️
Together with @patnabuco.bsky.social we ask whether we can consider visas, and particularly humanitarian visas, part of an everyday and racialised externalisation policy in south-south migration corridors, focusing on Brazil. Open access below
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have opened my Substack with a somewhat personal review of the movie "I'm Still Here", by
Walter Salles. If interested, subscribe via this link: open.substack.com/pub/nataliac...

Orange and olive oil cake to take to my fellow football goers before the match.

⚠️ New open access publication alert ⚠️

We reflect on the situation of Venezuela women in Brazil to reflect on gendered policies in humanitarian settings and whether they are able to protect displaced women. More below, and questions/comments are welcome

If you are not a migrant in the UK, you may not know that we have to calculate the amount of days we spend outside of the UK in order to apply for citizenship. This is me atm trying to do it, and seeing whether (and when) I can plan on seeing my family abroad.

Plus, as an extra, couldn't leave out the fact that there was an official running crew organised by the #IASFM20 #IASFM2025 of which I was proudly a part of!

Not the official photos yet, but would like to register our 2nd and 3rd days at #IASFM2025 when @patnabuco.bsky.social and I organised another panel with amazing speakers such as @marciaveraespinoza.bsky.social & @nicholasmaple.bsky.social , who also invited me to comment his wonderful book!

First day at the #IASFM20 #IASFM2025 in Yogyakarta is now wrapped up with the presentation of this amazing line up of speakers in the two panels organised by @patnabuco.bsky.social and I about critical perspectives on border externalisation

Books I took with me in my last trip but didn't open.

Opening bluesky to invite you to this event TODAY on: 'Coloniality and the racialisation of refugee protection' 19 November 2024, 18:00 UK time, IALS Council Chamber, 17 Russell Square, WC1B 5DR. Register here: rli.sas.ac.uk/events/colonia…