Alexandra Délano Alonso is Professor of Politics and Global Studies at The New School and Eugene M. Lang Professor for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. As a migration scholar, her earlier writing examines the Mexican state’s relations with its diaspora in the United States and, more recently, the shifting forms of agency and solidarity created by and for migrants at the margins of the state, both in Mexico and in the United States. Her current research explores the question of ungrievability and public mourning around migrants who have died crossing borders; memory activism in Mexico in the context of enforced disappearances; and alternative narratives and forms of social mobilization in response to border politics.
Read more about Alexandra’s research and courses on her faculty profile.