Kate Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 90141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3591-1782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Seas of unfreedom: A scoping review of labour exploitation as a structural feature of global fisheries
Migration intention and Indigenous social networks in the place of origin: A socio-centric network analysis in the rural western highlands of Guatemala
Social Network Impacts and Moderators of Depression Among Indigenous Maya People Remaining in Place of Origin in the Migrant-Sending Guatemalan Western Highlands
Remaining in the place of origin while family, friends, and neighbors emigrate can have adverse effects on psychological well-being. Specific important relationships absent from one's social network can be especially impactful, while other relationships and network characteristics still available in the home network can be protective against psychological distress. The highlands of western Guatemala experience emigration at high rates and changin…
Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala
Migration from Central America to the United States has become a strategy to escape economic poverty, exclusionary state policies and violence for people of Mayan descent. Under the principles Community Based Participatory Research, we explored the health concerns of Indigenous Mayans in rural migrant-sending communities of Guatemala using their own visual images and narratives through a Social Constructivist lens. Half of households in the study…
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico
Asylum is Not for Mexicans: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border
In this article we engage and extend work on race and border politics via an analysis of unaccompanied Mexican migrant youth. Historically, until recently, Mexican youth have formed the largest group of unaccompanied minors attempting to move across the US-Mexico border. However, a set of structural political, socio-legal, and everyday institutional violences lead to their neglect, disregard and exclusion from rights to protections in both the US…
What's in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
The academic discipline of geography, faced with increasing competition from cognate fields and declining undergraduate enrollments, continues to suffer an identity crisis. In recent decades, many geography programs have instituted department or degree name changes, or otherwise rebranded, without any evidence guiding these decisions. This study begins to build an evidence base for these decisions by presenting results from a survey of 4,388 unde…
A cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research in the USA
It has become commonplace in academia to encourage students from underrepresented groups to provide insider perspectives on experiences of marginality. Yet, there has been little discourse on how painful and traumatic this kind of vulnerability can be for students, or how academic advisors can best support students exploring potentially triggering researcher topics. In this article, we explore trauma, ethics and mentorship in graduate student res…
Gentefication in the barrio: Displacement and urban change in Southern California
Located at the edge of downtown San Diego, Barrio Logan is a neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. With a host of new breweries, galleries and cafés, this traditionally working-class, Mexican American community is being rebranded as the latest hotspot for cutting-edge arts and “authentic” local culture. Some support this change as gentefication. The word gentefication is a play on la gente (“the people” in Spanish) and suggests grassroots…
Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico
With child migration on the rise, there is a critical need to understand how migrant children express their agency. To date, popular narratives cast migrant children as either victims or criminals, an unhelpful binary that does little to further efforts to develop effective interventions to help migrant youth. Drawing from 32 in-depth interviews and participatory activities with Mexican and Central American children in Mexican youth immigration d…
Spaces of hope? Youth perspectives on health and wellness in indigenous communities
From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People
In this article, I explore the surprising and unexpected turns that have developed since zero tolerance policing was exported from New York to Ecuador at the turn of the new millennium. Drawing from fifteen years of ethnographic research with young indigenous Ecuadorians, I demonstrate how the impacts of displacement can extend far beyond the local scale. Street work has long been a key survival strategy for the indigenous Kisapincha. Yet, as gro…
HIV Risk Behaviors and Correlates of Inconsistent Condom Use Among Substance Using Migrants at the Mexico/Guatemala Border
Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations
It's called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: Emotional labour and girls' bodies
A key part of the American Girl Scouts organization is their iconic annual cookie sale, which is promoted as providing girls with invaluable business and leadership skills. We argue that it also trains girls in the gendered practice of emotional labour. By learning how to suppress or express certain feelings in public spaces in order to net more profit, girls are socialized to not only regulate their emotions, but also their bodies. This becomes …
Zero Tolerance in Latin America: Punitive Paradox in Urban Policy Mobilities
In Latin America, high levels of crime have prompted many politicians to embrace zero tolerance policing in order to quell public fears. While the overall impacts on urban crime are debatable, zero tolerance in the region has morphed into a powerful policy narrative that symbolizes strong leaders who crack down crime and disorder. Its impacts have been far-reaching; to date, it has been implemented in various guises in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Ve…
For every border, there is also a bridge’: Overturning borders in young Aboriginal peoples' lives
In this paper, I offer thoughts and insights on young people, border spaces and revolutions. Following Anzaldúa, I explore how different types of borders – the borderlands of the mind – have disrupted young people's lives, particularly the lives of indigenous youth. While global in context, my emphasis is upon Canada where the magnitude of Aboriginal poverty is astounding given that the nation is often ranked as one of the best places to live in …
Class, Agency and Resistance in the Old Industrial City
Recent left academic work on the consequences of economic restructuring and local labour market change in old industrial cities has been important in emphasising the role of local context and contingency in the shaping of labour market outcomes. However, in such accounts agency is often limited to capital and state actors, albeit working across scales from the local upwards. There is little sense of agency for individuals and communities in the m…
I’m an imaginary figure”: Unravelling the mobility and marginalisation of Scottish Gypsy Travellers
Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes
In this paper I examine the rhetorics that circulate surrounding the lives of young indigenous women and children who beg on the streets of Quito, Ecuador. I focus particularly on rhetorics being produced and reproduced by urban planners, social workers, religious leaders and the media. Drawing on in-depth interviews, I reveal how these groups regularly imagine indigenous women and children in terms of child exploitation/child delinquency, false …
Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador
Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south to focus on the regulation of indigenous street vendors and beggars in the Andean nation of Ecuador. Inspired by zero tolerance policies from the North, the cities of Quito and Guayaquil have recently initiated urban regeneration projects to cleanse the streets of informal workers, beggars, and street children.…
Witches, children and Kiva‐the‐research‐dog: Striking Problems Encountered in the Field
This paper examines how power, privilege and vulnerability can surface in unexpected ways during fieldwork. Drawing from my experiences working with indigenous women and children who beg and sell on the streets of Ecuador, I suggest that researchers do not always hold as much power as we might assume. By positioning myself within stories about witches and children, I discuss how multiple research identities can shift power dynamics in unsettling …
Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador
Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south to focus on the regulation of indigenous street vendors and beggars in the Andean nation of Ecuador. Inspired by zero tolerance policies from the North, the cities of Quito and Guayaquil have recently initiated urban regeneration projects to cleanse the streets of informal workers, beggars, and street children.…
Class, Agency and Resistance in the Old Industrial City
Recent left academic work on the consequences of economic restructuring and local labour market change in old industrial cities has been important in emphasising the role of local context and contingency in the shaping of labour market outcomes. However, in such accounts agency is often limited to capital and state actors, albeit working across scales from the local upwards. There is little sense of agency for individuals and communities in the m…
Zero Tolerance in Latin America: Punitive Paradox in Urban Policy Mobilities
In Latin America, high levels of crime have prompted many politicians to embrace zero tolerance policing in order to quell public fears. While the overall impacts on urban crime are debatable, zero tolerance in the region has morphed into a powerful policy narrative that symbolizes strong leaders who crack down crime and disorder. Its impacts have been far-reaching; to date, it has been implemented in various guises in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Ve…
Gentefication in the barrio: Displacement and urban change in Southern California
Located at the edge of downtown San Diego, Barrio Logan is a neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. With a host of new breweries, galleries and cafés, this traditionally working-class, Mexican American community is being rebranded as the latest hotspot for cutting-edge arts and “authentic” local culture. Some support this change as gentefication. The word gentefication is a play on la gente (“the people” in Spanish) and suggests grassroots…
I’m an imaginary figure”: Unravelling the mobility and marginalisation of Scottish Gypsy Travellers
Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes
In this paper I examine the rhetorics that circulate surrounding the lives of young indigenous women and children who beg on the streets of Quito, Ecuador. I focus particularly on rhetorics being produced and reproduced by urban planners, social workers, religious leaders and the media. Drawing on in-depth interviews, I reveal how these groups regularly imagine indigenous women and children in terms of child exploitation/child delinquency, false …
Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico
With child migration on the rise, there is a critical need to understand how migrant children express their agency. To date, popular narratives cast migrant children as either victims or criminals, an unhelpful binary that does little to further efforts to develop effective interventions to help migrant youth. Drawing from 32 in-depth interviews and participatory activities with Mexican and Central American children in Mexican youth immigration d…
Spaces of hope? Youth perspectives on health and wellness in indigenous communities
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico
Asylum is Not for Mexicans: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border
In this article we engage and extend work on race and border politics via an analysis of unaccompanied Mexican migrant youth. Historically, until recently, Mexican youth have formed the largest group of unaccompanied minors attempting to move across the US-Mexico border. However, a set of structural political, socio-legal, and everyday institutional violences lead to their neglect, disregard and exclusion from rights to protections in both the US…
Witches, children and Kiva‐the‐research‐dog: Striking Problems Encountered in the Field
This paper examines how power, privilege and vulnerability can surface in unexpected ways during fieldwork. Drawing from my experiences working with indigenous women and children who beg and sell on the streets of Ecuador, I suggest that researchers do not always hold as much power as we might assume. By positioning myself within stories about witches and children, I discuss how multiple research identities can shift power dynamics in unsettling …
For every border, there is also a bridge’: Overturning borders in young Aboriginal peoples' lives
In this paper, I offer thoughts and insights on young people, border spaces and revolutions. Following Anzaldúa, I explore how different types of borders – the borderlands of the mind – have disrupted young people's lives, particularly the lives of indigenous youth. While global in context, my emphasis is upon Canada where the magnitude of Aboriginal poverty is astounding given that the nation is often ranked as one of the best places to live in …
Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala
Migration from Central America to the United States has become a strategy to escape economic poverty, exclusionary state policies and violence for people of Mayan descent. Under the principles Community Based Participatory Research, we explored the health concerns of Indigenous Mayans in rural migrant-sending communities of Guatemala using their own visual images and narratives through a Social Constructivist lens. Half of households in the study…
What's in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
The academic discipline of geography, faced with increasing competition from cognate fields and declining undergraduate enrollments, continues to suffer an identity crisis. In recent decades, many geography programs have instituted department or degree name changes, or otherwise rebranded, without any evidence guiding these decisions. This study begins to build an evidence base for these decisions by presenting results from a survey of 4,388 unde…
A cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research in the USA
It has become commonplace in academia to encourage students from underrepresented groups to provide insider perspectives on experiences of marginality. Yet, there has been little discourse on how painful and traumatic this kind of vulnerability can be for students, or how academic advisors can best support students exploring potentially triggering researcher topics. In this article, we explore trauma, ethics and mentorship in graduate student res…
It's called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: Emotional labour and girls' bodies
A key part of the American Girl Scouts organization is their iconic annual cookie sale, which is promoted as providing girls with invaluable business and leadership skills. We argue that it also trains girls in the gendered practice of emotional labour. By learning how to suppress or express certain feelings in public spaces in order to net more profit, girls are socialized to not only regulate their emotions, but also their bodies. This becomes …
From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People
In this article, I explore the surprising and unexpected turns that have developed since zero tolerance policing was exported from New York to Ecuador at the turn of the new millennium. Drawing from fifteen years of ethnographic research with young indigenous Ecuadorians, I demonstrate how the impacts of displacement can extend far beyond the local scale. Street work has long been a key survival strategy for the indigenous Kisapincha. Yet, as gro…
Bad Mothers’ and ‘Delinquent Children’: Unravelling anti-begging rhetoric in the Ecuadorian Andes
In this paper I examine the rhetorics that circulate surrounding the lives of young indigenous women and children who beg on the streets of Quito, Ecuador. I focus particularly on rhetorics being produced and reproduced by urban planners, social workers, religious leaders and the media. Drawing on in-depth interviews, I reveal how these groups regularly imagine indigenous women and children in terms of child exploitation/child delinquency, false …
Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador
Much of the discussion surrounding neoliberal urbanism has been empirically grounded in the North. This paper shifts the discussion south to focus on the regulation of indigenous street vendors and beggars in the Andean nation of Ecuador. Inspired by zero tolerance policies from the North, the cities of Quito and Guayaquil have recently initiated urban regeneration projects to cleanse the streets of informal workers, beggars, and street children.…
Witches, children and Kiva‐the‐research‐dog: Striking Problems Encountered in the Field
This paper examines how power, privilege and vulnerability can surface in unexpected ways during fieldwork. Drawing from my experiences working with indigenous women and children who beg and sell on the streets of Ecuador, I suggest that researchers do not always hold as much power as we might assume. By positioning myself within stories about witches and children, I discuss how multiple research identities can shift power dynamics in unsettling …
For every border, there is also a bridge’: Overturning borders in young Aboriginal peoples' lives
In this paper, I offer thoughts and insights on young people, border spaces and revolutions. Following Anzaldúa, I explore how different types of borders – the borderlands of the mind – have disrupted young people's lives, particularly the lives of indigenous youth. While global in context, my emphasis is upon Canada where the magnitude of Aboriginal poverty is astounding given that the nation is often ranked as one of the best places to live in …
Class, Agency and Resistance in the Old Industrial City
Recent left academic work on the consequences of economic restructuring and local labour market change in old industrial cities has been important in emphasising the role of local context and contingency in the shaping of labour market outcomes. However, in such accounts agency is often limited to capital and state actors, albeit working across scales from the local upwards. There is little sense of agency for individuals and communities in the m…
I’m an imaginary figure”: Unravelling the mobility and marginalisation of Scottish Gypsy Travellers
Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations
It's called Girl Scouts, not, like, Woman Scouts’: Emotional labour and girls' bodies
A key part of the American Girl Scouts organization is their iconic annual cookie sale, which is promoted as providing girls with invaluable business and leadership skills. We argue that it also trains girls in the gendered practice of emotional labour. By learning how to suppress or express certain feelings in public spaces in order to net more profit, girls are socialized to not only regulate their emotions, but also their bodies. This becomes …
Zero Tolerance in Latin America: Punitive Paradox in Urban Policy Mobilities
In Latin America, high levels of crime have prompted many politicians to embrace zero tolerance policing in order to quell public fears. While the overall impacts on urban crime are debatable, zero tolerance in the region has morphed into a powerful policy narrative that symbolizes strong leaders who crack down crime and disorder. Its impacts have been far-reaching; to date, it has been implemented in various guises in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Ve…
HIV Risk Behaviors and Correlates of Inconsistent Condom Use Among Substance Using Migrants at the Mexico/Guatemala Border
Spaces of hope? Youth perspectives on health and wellness in indigenous communities
From New York to Ecuador and Back Again: Transnational Journeys of Policies and People
In this article, I explore the surprising and unexpected turns that have developed since zero tolerance policing was exported from New York to Ecuador at the turn of the new millennium. Drawing from fifteen years of ethnographic research with young indigenous Ecuadorians, I demonstrate how the impacts of displacement can extend far beyond the local scale. Street work has long been a key survival strategy for the indigenous Kisapincha. Yet, as gro…
A cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research in the USA
It has become commonplace in academia to encourage students from underrepresented groups to provide insider perspectives on experiences of marginality. Yet, there has been little discourse on how painful and traumatic this kind of vulnerability can be for students, or how academic advisors can best support students exploring potentially triggering researcher topics. In this article, we explore trauma, ethics and mentorship in graduate student res…
Gentefication in the barrio: Displacement and urban change in Southern California
Located at the edge of downtown San Diego, Barrio Logan is a neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. With a host of new breweries, galleries and cafés, this traditionally working-class, Mexican American community is being rebranded as the latest hotspot for cutting-edge arts and “authentic” local culture. Some support this change as gentefication. The word gentefication is a play on la gente (“the people” in Spanish) and suggests grassroots…
Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico
With child migration on the rise, there is a critical need to understand how migrant children express their agency. To date, popular narratives cast migrant children as either victims or criminals, an unhelpful binary that does little to further efforts to develop effective interventions to help migrant youth. Drawing from 32 in-depth interviews and participatory activities with Mexican and Central American children in Mexican youth immigration d…
What's in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
The academic discipline of geography, faced with increasing competition from cognate fields and declining undergraduate enrollments, continues to suffer an identity crisis. In recent decades, many geography programs have instituted department or degree name changes, or otherwise rebranded, without any evidence guiding these decisions. This study begins to build an evidence base for these decisions by presenting results from a survey of 4,388 unde…
Through our own eyes and voices: The experiences of those “left-behind” in rural, indigenous migrant-sending communities in western Guatemala
Migration from Central America to the United States has become a strategy to escape economic poverty, exclusionary state policies and violence for people of Mayan descent. Under the principles Community Based Participatory Research, we explored the health concerns of Indigenous Mayans in rural migrant-sending communities of Guatemala using their own visual images and narratives through a Social Constructivist lens. Half of households in the study…
Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico
Asylum is Not for Mexicans: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border
In this article we engage and extend work on race and border politics via an analysis of unaccompanied Mexican migrant youth. Historically, until recently, Mexican youth have formed the largest group of unaccompanied minors attempting to move across the US-Mexico border. However, a set of structural political, socio-legal, and everyday institutional violences lead to their neglect, disregard and exclusion from rights to protections in both the US…
Migration intention and Indigenous social networks in the place of origin: A socio-centric network analysis in the rural western highlands of Guatemala
Social Network Impacts and Moderators of Depression Among Indigenous Maya People Remaining in Place of Origin in the Migrant-Sending Guatemalan Western Highlands
Remaining in the place of origin while family, friends, and neighbors emigrate can have adverse effects on psychological well-being. Specific important relationships absent from one's social network can be especially impactful, while other relationships and network characteristics still available in the home network can be protective against psychological distress. The highlands of western Guatemala experience emigration at high rates and changin…
Seas of unfreedom: A scoping review of labour exploitation as a structural feature of global fisheries
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)