Formación académica

• (2016-2018) Maestría en Antropología Social, Escuela de Ciencia Social y Política, Universidad de Edimburgo
• (2012-2014) Maestría en Estudios Culturales, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El COLEF)
• (2003-2008) Licenciatura en Antropología social, Facultad de Antropología, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEMex)

Experiencia profesional y académica

• Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes (SJM), Mexico

Giro: Promoción y Defensa de Derechos Humanos de Migrantes y Refugiados
Puesto: Consultor-investigador

•  Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes (SJM), México

Giro: Promoción y Defensa de Derechos Humanos de Migrantes y Refugiados
Puesto: Analista de base de datos

• De La Riva Investigación Estratégica SC

Giro: Investigación de mercados
Puesto: Antropólogo etnógrafo

• Population Services International (PSI México) AC

Giro: Mercadeo social
Puesto: Consultor de investigación sociocultural

• Population Services International (PSI México) AC

Giro: Mercadeo social
Puesto: Coordinador de proyecto

• Preparatoria Colegio de la Comunidad del Sur

Giro: Educación
Puesto: Profesor de Asignatura

Proyecto de investigación

"Looking for Better Lives. Contested Desires, Hopes, and Futures in the Postglobal Undocumented Migration Borderscapes"

Everyday people from Mexico and Central America decide to migrate to the United States of
America (US) and Mexico. However, since the last century, the people in charge of these
governments, people like Donald Trump and Andres Manuel López Obrador, have implemented
harsh and restrictive migratory policies. These policies dictate whether foreigners can enter,
move, and reside within these territories. Although not all people fulfil the asked requirements,

some still decide to migrate without authorisation, most of them confronting significant problems
throughout their migration process partly because of it. For example, people working as
migration agents try to apprehend and deport them, sometimes taking economic and physical
advantage of them. Meanwhile, other people too, from these and other countries, acting
individually or as part of variously organised groups, also try to profit economically from them,
some standing openly against them. For example, people forming part of anti-immigrant groups
like the Minuteman or those working as smugglers, who have reportedly attacked, killed, and
‘disappeared’ thousands of them. Nonetheless, such situations begin before people depart and
continue when they return, particularly if they are deported. However, importantly, at the same
time, in all these places and throughout the migration process, a host of people - relatives,
acquaintances, inhabitants of the geographies crossed during their journeys, people working in
NGOs and government institutions, those employing them, and others engaged in migration
projects- do the opposite, contributing contradictorily to people’s migration projects and the fluid
landscapes of undocumented migration.
My research looks forward to comprehending 1) What moves people to migrate without
documents and stay committed to their migration projects? 2) What moves the people with
whom those engaged in migration project interact to relate with them as they do? What moves
some of these people to gather and form groups variously oriented towards the un/documented
migration phenomenon? 4) And, how while these people interact and form such groups they
reinforce or challenge the dynamics of un/documented migration?
Such concerns will be addressed using the concepts of ‘desire,’ ‘hope,’ and ‘future’ within a
novel approach to migration inspired by the New Materialism, Spinozist and Deleuzo-Guattarian
arguments, and the existential and phenomenological anthropologies. Relying methodologically
on documentary analysis, in-depth interviews, informal conversations, and up to 18 months of
ethnographic fieldwork in strategic places in Central America, Mexico, and the US, where
people directly related to un/documented migration converge.

Capítulos en libros

• Intersticios en la era de la globalización. Movilidad y reinterpretación de los espacios detránsito”. En Coloquio Interdisciplinario: Memoria, Conocimiento y Redes de Cultura Popular en Latinoamérica en tiempos de capitalismo global, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2017.

•  El otro lado de la violencia como causa de la inseguridad y el incumplimiento de los derechos humanos. H. LVI Legislatura del Estado de México y la Comisión de derechos Humanos del Estado de México (CODHEM), 2011.

Artículos en revistas

•  “Quieres migrar, pero al mismo tiempo te sientes mal por dejar a tu familia”. Reflexiones sobre el terruño en el tránsito migratorio centroamericano. En Diarios del terruño. Reflexiones sobre migración y movilidad, del Seminario en Estudios Multidisciplinarios sobre Migración Internacional, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2015.

Tesis

• Moving-On Towards Better Lives. Contested Hopes and Futures in Undocumented Mexican and Central American Migration (2018). Tesis de Maestría en Antropología social. Escuela de Ciencia Social y Política, Universidad de Edimburgo, 76pp.

• Vivir de paso y mirando al norte. Identidades móviles y contingentes en el tránsito migratorio centroamericano (2014). Tesis de Maestría en Estudios Culturales. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C. México, 276 pp.

•  Vivir entre paredes. Liminaridad y drama social en los internos del Centro Preventivo y de Readaptación Social de “Santiaguito” en Almoloya de Juárez, México (2008). Tesis de Licenciatura en Antropología social. Facultad de Antropología. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 320 pp.