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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
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Archives: Publications

Swanson, Kate, Rebecca M. Torres, Amy Thompson, Sarah Blue and Oscar Misael Hernández Hernández. 2015. A year after Obama declared a “Humanitarian Situation” at the border, child migration continues.

NACLA Report on the Americas.

Swanson, Kate. 2014. Urban ethnography.

Pages 54-69 in Researching the City: A Guide for Students. Edited by Kevin Ward. London: Sage Press.

Swanson, Kate. 2014. Where is home? An autoethnography of academic migration.

Pages 27-40 in Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives. Academic Mobility at the Borderlands. Rémy Tremblay and Susan Hardwick (Eds.). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.

Aitken, Stuart, Kate Swanson and Elizabeth Kennedy. 2014. Unaccompanied migrant children and youth: navigating relational borderlands.

Pages 214-240 in Children and Borders by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou (Eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Goode, Ryan J., Kate Swanson and Stuart C. Aitken. 2013. From God to Men: media and the turbulent fight for Rio’s favelas.

Pages 161-180 in G. H. Curti, J. Craine, and S. Aitken (eds.). The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Swanson, Kate. 2013. Zero tolerance in Latin America: punitive paradox in urban policy mobilities.

Urban Geography. 34: 972-988.

Goerisch, Denise and Kate Swanson. 2013. ‘It’s called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: Emotional labour and girls’ bodies.

Children’s Geographies.  13: 451-466.

Swanson, Kate. 2012. Children and young people in Latin America.

Pages 187-201 in E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (eds.), Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography, 2nd edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Aitken, Stuart C., Kate Swanson, Fernando Bosco and Thomas Herman (Eds.). 2011. Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations in Children’s Geographies.

This special issue features writings by fourteen scholars from academic institutes in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Notably, Routledge published this special issue as a separate book in Spring 2011 (see above, under Peer-reviewed books).

Swanson, Kate. 2011. ‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Indigenous lives.

Pages 103-110 in S. Aitken, K. Swanson, F. Bosco and T. Herman (eds.), Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations. New York: Routledge.

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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