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.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 5965 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3591-1782 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate-Swanson-3?ev=prf_overview |
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Dalhousie University
University, Halifax, Canada
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Dalhousie University
University, Halifax, Canada
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The Emotion, Space and Society AAG Lecture: Emotional entanglements in a world that 's falling apart
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2024 |
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 |
‘Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes
| Authors | KATE SWANSON |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Gender, Place & Culture |
Witches, children and Kiva‐the‐research‐dog: striking problems encountered in the field
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Area |
‘For every border, there is also a bridge’: overturning borders in young Aboriginal peoples' lives
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Children's Geographies |
Zero Tolerance in Latin America: Punitive Paradox in Urban Policy Mobilities
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Urban Geography |
| Citations (WoS) | 24 |
Book Review: Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets, by Kristina E. Gibson
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Urban Affairs Review |
The Emotion, Space and Society AAG Lecture: Emotional entanglements in a world that 's falling apart
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2024 |
Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador
| Authors | Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Antipode |
Holding onto emotions: A call to action in academia
| Authors | Kye Askins, Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2019 |
“I’m an imaginary figure”: Unravelling the mobility and marginalisation of Scottish Gypsy Travellers
| Authors | Sergei Shubin, Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Geoforum |
Gentefication in the barrio: Displacement and urban change in Southern California
| Authors | Emanuel Delgado, Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Urban Affairs |
Holding onto emotions: A call to action in academia
| Authors | Kye Askins, Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Emotion, Space and Society |
‘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 |
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 |
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 |
Spaces of hope? Youth perspectives on health and wellness in indigenous communities
| Authors | Lydia Wood, David Kamper, Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Health & Place |
Class, Agency and Resistance in the Old Industrial City
| Authors | Andrew Cumbers, Gesa Helms, Kate Swanson |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Antipode |
Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Youth
| Authors | Kate Swanson, Stuart C. Aitken, Elizabeth G. Kennedy |
| Book Title | Children and Borders |
“Asylum is Not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border
| Authors | Rebecca Maria Torres, Sarah Blue, Caroline Faria, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Geopolitics |
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico
| Authors | Rebecca Maria Torres, Kate Swanson, Caroline Faria, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Political Geography |
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 |
HIV Risk Behaviors and Correlates of Inconsistent Condom Use Among Substance Using Migrants at the Mexico/Guatemala Border
| Authors | Erin E. Conners, Kate Swanson, Sonia Morales-Miranda, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
Migration intention and Indigenous social networks in the place of origin: a socio-centric network analysis in the rural western highlands of Guatemala
| Authors | Haley M. Ciborowski, Eric Leas, Kimberly C. Brouwer, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies |
HIV Risk Behaviors and Correlates of Inconsistent Condom Use Among Substance Using Migrants at the Mexico/Guatemala Border
| Authors | Erin E. Conners, Kate Swanson, Sonia Morales-Miranda, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | AIDS and Behavior |
Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala
| Authors | Haley M. Ciborowski, Samantha Hurst, Ramona L. Perez, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Migration and Health |
What’s in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
| Authors | Justin Stoler, Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Ira Sheskin, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Annals of the American Association of Geographers |