Monica is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research (NSSR). Her research focuses on the intersection of border, mobility, and feminist studies. Her dissertation, a trajectory ethnography, examines the experiences of people on the move to the United States from and through Mexico and Central America. She focuses on the survival and care strategies employed by these individuals to navigate the challenges of restrictive migratory policies, immobilization, and criminal violence. Additionally, her work investigates how they navigate, perform, and strategically utilize bureaucratic categories imposed upon them by state authorities and humanitarian institutions throughout their journey.