Regimes of (Im)mobility: Race, Migration, and Deportability across the Americas

Ulla Berg (Rutgers U)

Biographical Note

Prof. Ulla Berg (Rutgers University, USA)
Ulla Berg is an assistant professor in the departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies and anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on historical and contemporary processes and experiences of migration and mobility within Latin America and between this region and the United States. Currently, she is working on two new multi-year research projects: The first is based on ethnographic fieldwork in New Jersey, Peru, and Ecuador and investigates immigrant detention and deportation of South Americans from the US. The second one examines new elites in contemporary Peru by exploring the intersection of race with the distribution of economic, social, affective, cultural, political, and knowledge capitals in the changing character of Peruvian inequality. In addition to her research, Ulla Berg is a practicing filmmaker.

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