Associate Professor of Sociology Veronica Montes recently wrote a piece for the Public Religion Research Institute titled
Montes is currently a and a residential fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, where she is continuing her research on the activist nature of transnational motherhood by looking at family separation due to the U.S. deportation regime and the collective mobilization of deported mothers in Tijuana, Mexico.
In addition to her appointment in the Sociology Department, Montes is also the co-director of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
As a feminist ethnographer, Montes conducts research in two areas: immigration from Mexico and Central America to the United States, and the intersection between gender, belonging, and migration. Her other ongoing research projects revolve around the examination of the precariousness of the social services provided to the Mexican migrant community in Philadelphia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as examining the intersection between social inclusion, citizenship, culture production, and Latino immigrants in South Philadelphia.