Estefania Castaneda Perez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the department of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in political science and interdisciplinary studies from San Diego State University. Her research focuses on border politics, state power and institutions through the lens of Latinx racialization. In particular, she examines how routine contact with state institutions affect the racialization, citizenship, incorporation, and well-being of transborder commuters in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Her educational aspirations have been informed by her experience commuting daily from Tijuana to San Diego as a first-generation, transborder student for more than a decade. As a community-engaged scholar, she has advocated for transborder and migrant communities, and held workshops on meeting the needs of transborder youth at the local and national level. Her research is supported by numerous associations such as the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, and in academic blogs such as NACLA and the NYU Latinx Project Intervenxions Blog.
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