Managing Im/mobilities Under the Digital Security State

Mellon Fellow

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Rice University

Assistant Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (Starting in 2025)

Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork, Flores traces the digitalized border, focusing on the CBP One app and its resulting sociotechnical relations away from the territorial boundary, documenting its impact on migrant shelters’ humanitarian work, people’s im/mobility strategies, and possibilities for solidarity and digital resistance.

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