Laura Sofía Rivera Sánchez is a third-year PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto, specializing in comparative politics and political theory. She holds an MA and a BA in Political Science and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics. Her research explores undocumented migration across the Americas through affect theory and postcolonial thought, with a focus on the Colombian-Panamanian and Colombian-Ecuadorian borders. Using interpretative and ethnographic methods, she examines how affective encounters between migrants and communities along the route shape social dynamics in these “in-between” spaces of migration. Her MA research, conducted in the towns of Acandí and Necoclí, on the Colombian side of the Darién Gap, explored varying degrees of conviviality and in the interactions between extra-continental migrants and local communities. Outside of academia, she is an avid knitter, rock-climber and cat lover.
Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies
Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies