Gioconda Herrera

Gioconda Herrera is Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Quito-Ecuador and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies. Formerly, she was President of the Latin American Studies Association. Over the past twenty years, she has studied the changing dynamics of South American migrations with a special focus on women, transnational families and indigenous groups in the South-North corridors to the USA and Europe as well as within South America. Her most recent books include  Migration in South America (Springer-IMISCOE, 2022) and Movilidades, Control Migratorio y Luchas Migrantes(Editorial Siglo XXI & CLACSO, 2022).