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Kate Swanson

Professor, Canada Research Chair
in International Peace, Security
and Children

Research

My research explores borders, migration, children and youth among other intersecting topics.

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Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, books, chapters & more.

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Teaching

I’ve been teaching and mentoring in formal and informal education spaces for most of my life.

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About

Kate Swanson

While I have wide ranging interests in development
and critical human geography, I currently focus on
youth migration in Latin America and the
U.S./Mexico border region.

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Recent Publications

Swanson, Kate. 2024. The Emotion, Space and Society AAG Lecture: Emotional entanglements in a world that’s falling apart.

2023

Emotion, Space and Society. 101002.

Thompson, Amy, Rebecca Maria Torres, Kate Swanson, Sarah A. Blue and Óscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2022. Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico.

2022

Pages 39-58 in Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Children of Migration in the European Union and the United States. London: Routledge.

Torres, Rebecca Maria, Kate Swanson, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Sarah Blue. 2022.

2022

Bordering through Care and Control: Policing and Sheltering Central American Migrant Youth in Mexico. Political Geography. 98: 102719.

Ciborowski, Haley M., Samantha Hurst, Ramona L. Perez, Kate Swanson, Eric Leas, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Holly Baker Shakya. 2022.

2022

Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, Indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala. Journal of Migration and Health. Volume 5, 100096.

Torres, Rebecca Maria, Sarah Blue, Caroline Faria, Tamara Segura, Kate Swanson. 2022.

2022

“Asylum is not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied youth and racio-governance at the US border. Geopolitics.

Stoler, Justin, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ira Sheskin,Amber L. Pearson,Gary Schnakenberg, Dominique Cagalanan,Kate Swanson, Piotr Jankowski. 2021.

2021

What’s in a name? Undergraduate student perceptions of geography, environment, and sustainability key words and program names. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 11(2):317-342.

Delgado, Emanuel and Kate Swanson. 2021.

2021

Gentefication in the barrio: Art, displacement and urban change in Southern California. Journal of Urban Affairs. 43: 925-940.

The Impacts of COVID-19 on the SDSU Community. ESRI StoryMap. February 5, 2021.

2021

Published as part of an SDSU Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research class.

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Urban ethnography.

2020

Pages 57-73 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students, 2nd Edition. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Children and young people in Latin America: Inequality, rights and empowerment.

2020

Pages 191-206 in Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 4th edition. E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (Eds.). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.