Graduate & Undegraduate Researches
Internal Bordes: Gender, Immigration, and the Struggles for Rights in the United States
Ongoing research by Isabella Fernandes Moreira Fontaniello, PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Campinas
The research investigates how the interaction between different institutional arenas, especially the federal government and state governments, incorporates, reproduces, or contests gender norms in defining belonging, distributing vulnerabilities, and configuring the rights of immigrant women in the United States between 2009 and 2024.
The central question guiding the study is how the intertwining of federal guidelines and state immigration policy arrangements produces different regimes of (un)protection for immigrant women.
Borders of Care: Brazilian Women and the Entanglements of Migration
Ongoing research by Nathalia Christina Cordeiro, PhD stiudent in Political Science at the University of Campinas
The work research examines how formally undocumented Brazilian women engaged in paid care work in the United States narrate and interpret the relationships between migratory status, labor, and belonging.
The study builds upon a critical diagnosis established in the literature: the ethics of migration has predominantly operated at a high level of abstraction, privileging debates on border control over lived experiences and socially produced forms of exclusion and recognition.
The Effects of Migration on Economic and Social Development: Evidence and New Arrangements from the Venezuelan Flow into Brazil
Ongoing research by Níkolas de Camargo Pirani, PhD student in Political Science at the University of Campinas
The research examines the extent to which the Brazilian legal and institutional framework for immigrant reception and regularization conditions the integration of Venezuelans into the formal labor market and their access to social policies.
It identifies patterns of occupational segmentation, income inequalities, mobility trajectories, and medium-term fiscal effects.
Presidential Discourses and State Responses to Venezuelan Migration: A Comparative Analysis Between Colombia and Peru (2018–2022)
Ongoing research by Francisco Malheiros Martin Urbano, undergraduate student in Social Sciences at the University of Campinas
Venezuelan migration constitutes one of the largest population displacements in the recent history of Latin America and has prompted distinct state responses among host countries. Although Colombia and Peru have received significant contingents of migrants within a similar regional context, they have developed markedly different migration policies and discursive framings.