Rosario Rizzo Lara

Rosario Rizzo was born and raised in Mexico. She is passionate about migration and human rights. She has lived and studied in different countries such as the US, Belgium, Germany, and Denmark.  Her primary expertise is in Mexican and Central American migration. She is particularly interested in studying migration policy in Mexico and the US, the causes of migration, the effects of immigration enforcement, human rights violations and violence, and social movements.

Main publications include:

Rizzo Lara, R. (2022) Managing Irregularized Migration in Mexico: Rhetoric of a Renewed Approach. Journal of Borderland Studies. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2115391 

Rizzo Lara, R. (2021) La Caminata del Migrante: a social movement, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47:17, 3891-3910, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1940111 

Teaching:

SOC 4510 Sociology of Migration

SOC 4200 Social Movements

SOC 5900  Seminar in Sociology: Hispanic, Latino, or Chicano? An Introduction to Latix Studies