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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Established in 1907, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) advances creative thought and innovative work in the social sciences, humanities, and Native American arts. SAR is home to the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), a leader in community-advised and collaborative Indigenous arts engagement and collections management. Through scholar residency, seminar, and artist fellowship programs, SAR Press publications, and a range of public programs, SAR facilitates intellectual inquiry and human understanding. SAR’s historic 16-acre campus sits on the ancestral lands of the Tewa people in O’gah’poh geh Owingeh or Santa Fe, New Mexico. SAR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational institution.

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