Veronica Montes

Veronica Montes is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and co-director of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies Minor at Bryn Mawr College. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California in the Department of Sociology and with the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. As a feminist ethnographer, her research falls in two areas: on immigration from Mexico and Central America to the United States and on the intersection between gender, belonging and migration. Currently, her research revolves around the migrant caravan as a mobility strategy in the North America; family separation due to the US deportation regime and the collective mobilization of deported mothers in Tijuana, Mexico; as well as the precariousness of the social services provided to the Mexican migrant community in Philadelphia in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her work has been published in journals such as Gender & Society; Gender, Place and Culture; Apuntes; Latino Studies Journal and chapters in edited volumes.