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Dra. Olivia T. Ruiz Marrujo, El Colegio de La Frontera Norte I have dedicated most of my professional life as a cultural anthropologist to studying Mexico’s northern and southern borders. The decision to study Mexico’s borders came naturally to me as a person who spent her childhood between the United States and Mexico. Then, in the late 1980’s, I moved to Tijuana, where, with the exception of four years spent in Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico City, I have worked and lived ever since. In Tijuana I began to volunteer in the Casa del Migrante, a mission run by the Fathers of St. Charles, better known as Scalabrinians, a congregation dedicated to aiding migrants and refugees around the world. If an area of research can be said to have a birthplace, my interest in comparative immigration was born in the Scalabrini mission in Tijuana, where, despite my training, I worked less as a social scientist than as a lay person troubled by the treatment of immigrants along Mexico’s borders. In the years since that initial introduction to the congregation, I have worked as a volunteer and social scientist with the Scalabrinians in Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua), Tapachula (Chiapas), Tecún Umán (Guatemala), and Guatemala City. Not surprisingly, that experience has evolved into a research project on borders, immigration, risk, vulnerability, and human rights. That hybrid history shapes my research and influence the scope and tenor of my teaching.
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