Abstract: 

This research explored transborderism and its practices at the Cali-Baja region through the perspectives of transborder pupils and students living in Mexico, but attending school in the U.S. This population crossed the Mexico-U.S. border through the land Ports of Entry in Mexicali-Calexico and Tijuana- San Diego. The narratives of documented border crossers, particularly transborder learners, have been missing in the Mexico-U.S. border scholarship. Such invisibility limits our understanding of the region. Transborder practices for academic purposes present challenges with binational and overall international implications.

Bio: 

Dr Mitxy Mabel Meneses Gutierrez's research is in border studies, international migration, and international policy formation and cooperation, which draws on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. Her main focus is transborderism in the Americas and the international implications of this practice. She is currently a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Sheffield Hallam University. She also holds experience as a policy-maker in international relations and has worked in the United Nations within the International Organization for Migration (IOM).