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Kate Swanson

Kate Swanson
  • About
  • Research
    • Borders, migration, and asylum
    • Geographies of children and youth
    • Urban studies, policing, and informal economies
    • Emotional geographies, care ethics, and feminist research
    • Higher education and learning
  • Publications
  • Teaching
    • Graduate Students
  • PAR Lab
  • Media
  • Contact

Archives: Publications

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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

Swanson, Kate. 2020. Urban ethnography.

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.

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.

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Areas of Research

  • Borders, migration, and asylum
  • Geographies of children and youth
  • Urban studies, policing, and informal economies
  • Emotional geographies, care ethics, and feminist research
  • Higher education and learning

Contact

Email: kate.swanson@dal.ca

Department of International Development Studies,
Marion McCain Building,
6135 University Ave.,
Dalhousie University,
PO Box 15000,
Halifax, NS, Canada,
B3H 4R2

Office location:
3037 Marion McCain Building

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  • About
  • Research
    • Borders, migration, and asylum
    • Geographies of children and youth
    • Urban studies, policing, and informal economies
    • Emotional geographies, care ethics, and feminist research
    • Higher education and learning
  • Publications
  • Teaching
    • Graduate Students
  • PAR Lab
  • Media
  • Contact