Contributors Jesús Javier Peña Muñoz has a doctorate in the social sciences with a minor in sociology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Mexico City, a master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Texas at El Paso. He is a researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Ciudad Juárez. He works with the Observatorio de Migración and the Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte (Emif Norte). His most recent work is “Innovaciones en política migra- toria. Una comparación entre las nuevas legislaciones de México y Alemania” to be published in the Revista Legislativa de Estudios Sociales y Opinión Pública. Email: jesuspena.catedra@colef.mx. Eduardo Torre Cantalapiedra has a master’s degree in inter- national economic relations and cooperation from the Univer- sidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He graduated from the Universidad Com- plutense de Madrid with degrees in law, business administra- tion, political science, and administration. He was a research assistant for Dr. Jorge A. Bustamante at El Colegio de la Fron- tera Norte in 2011, and is the author of the chapter “Crítica a los fundamentos de la Cooperación Internacional en el discurso del presidente Obama,” published in Desafíos Globales y Coop- eración Internacional (Astra Ediciones, 2011) edited by M.G. Romero Morett y L.A. Jiménez Portugal. He has been a doc- toral student in population studies at El Colegio de México for the 2012-2016 period. In 2012 and 2013 he was the recipient of the Colmex Excellence Prize granted by the bbva Bancomer Foundation. In 2014 he received a Santander national mobility scholarship for his research stay at Colef and was given a schol- [287] Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 287 12/22/15 2:25 PM arship from the Tokyo Foundation’s Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund. Email: etorre@colmex.mx. José María Ramos García has a doctorate in political science and sociology from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, where his thesis, “La administración central y la política regional comunitaria en Cataluña: Cooperación y conflicto”, received the distinction of cum laude. He has a master’s degree in Mexico- United States studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and received a bachelor’s degree in social and politi- cal science from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. He is a researcher with the Department of Public Administra- tion Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. His most recent books are: Gobernanza por resultados en Brasil y México: Marco conceptual, evidencias y retos (Centro de Alta Dirección Pública/ Instituto Publix, 2013), with Alberto Villalobos Pacheco and Al- exandre Borges Afonso; Gobernanza estratégica para el desarrollo local de los municipios costeros (Centro de Alta Dirección Pública/ Red Mexicana de Manejo Integrado Costero-Marino, 2013), with Hilda Karina Mendoza Rentería, and Evaluación del des- empeño: Gestión y política para la generación de resultados efectivos (Editorial Color, 2013). Email: ramosjm@colef.mx. Enriqueta Lerma Rodríguez has a doctorate and master’s de- gree in anthropology and received a bachelor’s degree in so- ciology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (unam). She's a sni member, level i. She is an associate re- searcher C in the Program for Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamérica and the Southeast and teaches theory of space of territory to unam graduate students in anthropology. She was awarded the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán prize for the best doc- toral thesis, given by ciesas Pacífico and the Universidad Ve- racruzana, in addition to receiving the Alfonso Caso medal for university merit from unam, during her doctoral work. Among her areas of interest are: territorial disputes and culture, com- munity development and autonomy, and processes and rituals. Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 288 12/22/15 2:25 PM Her most recent publications are: “Cuando los chichi’ales lle- gan: La conceptualización de muerte entre los yaquis” (inah, 2013) in the magazine Nueva Antropología; “Espacio vivido: Del espacio local al reticular. Notas en torno a la represent- ación social del espacio vivido en la globalización”, in Pueblos y Fronteras Digital (unam, 2013); and “Algunas consideraciones sobre investigación etnográfica en la tribu Yaqui,” published in Culturales (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2014). Email: enriquetal@yahoo.com.mx. Brenda Canelo has doctoral and bachelor’s degrees in anthro- pological sciences with a sociocultural emphasis from the Uni- versidad de Buenos Aires (uba). She is an assistant researcher with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), teaches social and cultural anthropology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at uba and is teaching “Sys- tematic Anthropology I” in the Faculty of Philosophy and Let- ters on an interim basis. She has also been a consultant for various studies and projects, including the following: “Releva- miento de instrumentos sobre trata de personas elaborados a nivel Mercosur” and “Curso de capacitación ippdh-oim-Casa Patria Grande sobre Migraciones y Derechos Humanos para funcionarios de las áreas migratorias del Mercosur ampliado” for the Mercosur’s Institute of Public Policy in Human Rights (ippdh) of Mercosur Argentina, developed in 2013. Her more recent publications include Fronteras internas. Migración y disputas espaciales en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (Antropofagia, 2012), and “El campo de las políticas públicas en la formación antropológica de grado” in the Revista Escuela de Antropología (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2014), with Ana Lis Rodrí- guez Nardelli, Diego Zenobi, Clara Pierini, Sofía Meyrelles, and Nahue Luna. Email: brendacanelo@yahoo.com.ar. Marcela Sandra Cerrutti has a doctorate in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the director of the Centro de Estudios de Población, an independent researcher with the Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 289 12/22/15 2:25 PM Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (Conicet), a professor with the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and teaches graduate courses at the Universi- dad Nacional de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. She is the Argentine team leader in the Temper Project (Temporary versus Permanent Migration), fi- nanced by the European Union and coordinated by Amparo González-Ferrer of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (csic) in Spain. She is an associate researcher with the research project “La emigración de sudamericanos a España en perspectiva comparada” financed by Conicet. She is editor of the Revista Latinoamericana de Población and has numerous national and international publications. Among the most re- cent are: Familia, migración y cadenas globales de cuidado; Pau- tas de reunificación familiar de las inmigrantes sudamericanas en España (with Georgina Binstock and Alicia Maguid); and Los estudiantes inmigrantes en la escuela secundaria. Integración y desafíos, with Georgina Binstock (Unicef, 2012). She also has consulted for international organizations such as the U.N. Pop- ulation Fund, U.N. Development Program, cepal, Unicef, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and Mercosur’s Institute of Public Policy in Human Rights. Email: mcerrutti@cenep.org.ar. Alicia Maguid is principal researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (Coni- cet) based in the Centro de Estudios de Población (Cenep) from 1987 to date. She is the coordinator of the research proj- ect “La emigración de sudamericanos a España en perspectiva comparada” financed by Conicet. She is an associated research- er with the Temper Project (Temporary versus Permanent Mi- gration) financed by the European Union and coordinated by Amparo González-Ferrer of the Consejo Superior de Investiga- ciones Científicas (csic) in Spain. She was coordinator of the international project Statistical Information System on Mi- Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 290 12/22/15 2:25 PM gration in Meso-America (siemca/siemmes) organized by the iom, cepal, and Celade. She was director of social statistics of Argentina’s census agency, the Instituto Nacional de Estadísti- cas y Censos (Indec), from 1995 to 2007, and an international consultant for organizations such as cepal, the International Organization for Migration, the U.N. Population Fund, Uni- cef, the U.N. Development Programme, and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She has published numerous arti- cles in international and national journals, and book chapters. Email: amaguid@yahoo.es. Gregorio Hernández Pulgarín has a doctorate in town and country planning from the Institut Français d’Urbanisme of the Université Paris-Est. He has a master’s degree in anthropol- ogy from the Université de Bordeaux, and bachelor’s degrees in anthropology from the Universidad de Caldas and in busi- ness administration from the Universidad Nacional de Co- lombia. He is an assistant professor with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Territorialities Research Group at the Universidad de Caldas. He is a doctoral student and member of Lab’Urba, of the Institut Français d’Urbanisme de la Université Paris-Est (Marne la Vallée). His most recent publications are: “Representaciones y prácticas en la ‘ciudad- mercancía’” in La frontera, las fronteras; diálogos transversales en estudios territoriales contemporáneos (Universidad de Caldas/ Universidad de Guajira, 2013); and “Nuevos ‘Eldorado’. Repre- sentaciones del territorio e ideales de progreso en la migración del Área Metropolitana Centro Occidente de Colombia” in the journal Ánfora, No. 19 (Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, 2012). Email: gregorio.hernandez@ucaldas.edu.co. María José Añón has doctoral and bachelor’s degrees in law from the Universitat de València, where she has been secretary general since 2010 and teaches philosophy of law. She was di- rector of the university’s Human Rights Institute from 2005 and 2010, and is a researcher there. Among her latest publica- Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 291 12/22/15 2:25 PM tions are “Derechos humanos y obligaciones positivas” in La eficacia de los derechos sociales (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2014); and “Derechos Humanos y principio de efectividad: Claves inter- pretativas” in El tiempo de los derechos (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 2015). Email: mariaj@uv.es. Jéssica Nájera Aguirre has a doctorate in population stud- ies and a master’s degree in demography from El Colegio de México, as well as a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. She is a research professor at the Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (cedua) of El Colegio de México, is a member of the Migración Internacional academic group of El Colegio de México and is part of a Mexico-Central America research group examining “Flujos migratorios en las fronteras norte y sur de México y en tránsito hacia Estados Unidos: Dinámicas de movilidad y políticas de contención,” a Conacyt research project approved in 2012. Her most recent publications are: “Contar y significar la movilidad laboral de los trabajadores guatemaltecos al So- conusco chiapaneco: ¿Quiénes son y cómo se vive la frontera Guatemala-México?” (ciesas/La Casa Chata, 2015), Trabajo y vida cotidiana de centroamericanos en la frontera suroccidental de México (ciesas, 2015); and “La gestión migratoria desde los países de inmigración: Un análisis comparativo de las fronteras Guatemala/México y México/Estados Unidos” in Cruces de fronteras. Movilidad humana y políticas migratorias (El Colef/ Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas/Cesmeca, 2015). Email: jnajera@colmex.mx. Amalia Campos-Delgado has a master’s degree in socio- cultural studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. She is a PhD candidate in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. Her latest publications are Líneas Límites y Colindancias. Mirada a las fronteras desde Améri- Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 292 12/22/15 2:25 PM ca Latina, with Alberto Hernández (El Colef/ciesas, 2015), and “Figés dans le mouvement: Périodes et espaces d’attente des migrants mexicains expulsés des États-Unis” in Revue Euro- péenne des Migrations Internationales (2014), with Olga Odgers- Ortiz. Email: acamposdelgado01@qub.ac.uk. Claudia Dávila Valdés has a doctorate in modern history from the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 and a master’s degree in Latin American Society Studies from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 in the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (iheal) and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Universidad Nuevo Mundo. From 2009 to 2011 she did postdoctoral work at the Centro Peninsular en Humani- dades y en Ciencias Sociales (Cephcis) de la Universidad Nacio- nal Autónoma de México (unam). She is a research professor in the Social Sciences Unit of the Dr. Hideyo Noguchi Regional Research Center (cir-uady) of the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and author of the book Refugiados españoles en Francia y México. Un estudio comparativo (El Colegio de México, 2012). She has published various articles comparing the migratory ex- perience of refugees from the Spanish Civil War in Mexico and France, as well as of Lebanese and Koreans in Yucatán. Email: claudavila@hotmail.com. Migraciones internacionales 30.indd 293 12/22/15 2:25 PM