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Martha Balaguera

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Martha Balaguera is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science, pursuing Graduate Certificates in Advanced Feminist Studies (completed in 2015) and Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. Her scholarship focuses on questions of state violence, changing forms of citizenship and collective political struggle in the 21st Century from a transnational feminist perspective. Currently, she is a Grassroots Development Fellow of the Inter-American Foundation. Her dissertation, ‘We are all migrants:’ Citizenship in Transit and the Perils and Promises of Crossing Mexico, examines how everyday encounters of citizens and transient migrants undertaking perilous journeys on their way to the United States are transforming contemporary understandings of large-scale political phenomena like state sovereignty, citizenship and democracy.