Faculty

Alexandra Délano Alonso is Professor of Politics and Global Studies at The New School and Eugene M. Lang Professor for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. Her earlier work examines the Mexican state’s relations with its diaspora in the United States, and diaspora policies more broadly. Her current research explores the question of ungrievability and public mourning in border contexts; memory activism in Mexico in the context of enforced disappearances; and alternative narratives and social movements in relation to migration.

She is co-founder and former co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility with Miriam Ticktin.

DPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford

Professor Délano Alonso's publications include the book From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration and Social Rights Beyond Borders (Oxford University Press, 2018) and the book Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 (Cambridge University Press, 2011; El Colegio de México, 2014), co-winner of the William LeoGrande Prize for the best book on US-Latin America Relations. 

She is also co-editor of the special issue on the Microfoundations of Disapora Politics (with Harris Mylonas, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019) and the special issue on Borders and the Politics of Mourning (with Benjamin Nienass, Social Research,Summer 2016).

Her most recent books include:

New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race and Dispossession, co-edited with Alex Aleinikoff (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)

Las luchas por la memoria contra las violencias en México, co-edited with Benjamin Nienass, Alicia de los Ríos Merino and María De Vecchi Gerli (El Colegio de México, 2023)

Recent articles and essays:

Migrants in Waiting in Mexico (Current History, 2024)

Memory Protest and Contested Time: The Antimonumentos Route in Mexico City (Sociologica, 2023)  

Antes y después de Juárez (Gatopardo, 2023)