Catherine Bourgeois
Anthropologist, PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Université libre de Bruxelles. She is an affiliated researcher at URMIS (Paris/Nice) and at LAMC/ULB, and a member of several research networks in Latin America (CLACSO Working Group “South–South Migrations and Borders” and Working Group 1 “Mobilities and Reconfigurations of Citizenship” of LMI-MESO).
She specializes in Dominican and Haitian studies (migration, borders, migration policies, racism and nationalism, socio-racial categorizations, and aesthetic social practices). Since 2019, she has been working in Mexico (Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, Tapachula, and Mexico City) on Mexican and U.S. migration policies, the asylum process in Mexico, and Haitian migration to Mexico.
She collaborates with several organizations defending migrants’ rights as an interpreter of Haitian Creole, French, and Spanish, in support of linguistic justice. She recently published the book Movilidades humanas en crisis (2024), which brings together case studies on migration issues in the Americas and Europe.
