Kate Swanson is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in International Peace, Security and Children and a Professor in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has been working with migrant children, youth and families in Latin America for over twenty years, and with unaccompanied migrant youth in the U.S./Mexico border region for over a decade. Much of her research adopts a child-centred lens and uses participatory techniques to understand displacement, migration, violence, detention, and deportation. Trained largely in human geography, her work has appeared in journals such as: Antipode; Urban Geography; Gender, Place and Culture; and Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

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  • Dalhousie University

    University, Halifax, Canada
    Professor

  • Dalhousie University

    University, Halifax, Canada

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From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People

Authors Kate Swanson
Year 2017
Journal Name Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2 Journal Article

‘Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes

Authors KATE SWANSON
Year 2007
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
3 Journal Article

Zero Tolerance in Latin America: Punitive Paradox in Urban Policy Mobilities

Authors Kate Swanson
Year 2013
Journal Name Urban Geography
Citations (WoS) 24
6 Journal Article

Gentefication in the barrio: Displacement and urban change in Southern California

Authors Emanuel Delgado, Kate Swanson
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Urban Affairs
12 Journal Article

Holding onto emotions: A call to action in academia

Authors Kye Askins, Kate Swanson
Year 2019
Journal Name Emotion, Space and Society
13 Journal Article

‘It's called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: emotional labour and girls' bodies

Authors Denise Goerisch, Kate Swanson
Year 2013
Journal Name Children's Geographies
14 Journal Article

A cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research in the USA

Authors Shea Ellen Gilliam, Kate Swanson
Year 2019
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
15 Journal Article

Child Migration and Transnationalized Violence in Central and North America

Authors Kate Swanson, Rebecca Maria Torres
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Latin American Geography
16 Journal Article

Class, Agency and Resistance in the Old Industrial City

Authors Andrew Cumbers, Gesa Helms, Kate Swanson
Year 2010
Journal Name Antipode
18 Journal Article

Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Youth

Authors Kate Swanson, Stuart C. Aitken, Elizabeth G. Kennedy
Book Title Children and Borders
19 Book Chapter

Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico

Authors Amy Thompson, Rebecca Maria Torres, Kate Swanson, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
22 Journal Article
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