Center for InterAmerican Studies

"Transnational Families in the Age of Deportation: The Case of Ecuadorian Indigenous Returned Migrants"

Gioconda Herrera, FLACSO Ecuador/ GIGA Hamburg

Dr. Gioconda Herrera is Professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador and currently visiting fellow at the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies in Hamburg. 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. She chairs the Sociology and Gender Studies program at FLACSO. Gioconda was Associate Editor of the Latin American Research Review in the area of Sociology. She has been recently elected President of the Latin American Studies Association for the period 2020 to 2021.

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