The Migrant Passage: Survival Plays and Clandestine Journeys from Central America
Noelle Brigden is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University, where she teaches courses on international relations, human security and migration. During her research on the violence and uncertainty that confronts Central American migrants in transit, she conducted over two years of fieldwork along unauthorized routes in El Salvador, Mexico and the United States. Her current research project maps the im/mobilities produced by gang borders in El Salvador to theorize globalization and the reordering of the nation-state through the lived spatial orientation of people. She has published in International Studies Quarterly, Geopolitics, Migration Politics and Antipode, and her work is forthcoming in Mobilities. She earned her Ph.D. in Government at Cornell University.