Author: Rebecca Galemba

Rebecca Galemba is an Assistant Professor (in Fall 2016) of International Development at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has conducted ethnographic field-work at the Mexico-Guatemala border and is currently working on a research and legal outreach project with Latino day laborers in Denver who have experienced wage theft.

Rebecca Galemba

Rebecca Galemba is an Assistant Professor (in Fall 2016) of International Development at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has conducted ethnographic field-work at the Mexico-Guatemala border and is currently working on a research and legal outreach project with Latino day laborers in Denver who have experienced wage theft.

Irregular Migration Threads

How Immigration Policies Create Smugglers

April, 2016 / By Rebecca Galemba

In the spring of 2007, when I was driving with Ramón (all names have been changed), a Mexican man who […]

Irregular Migration Threads

Roundtable: Responses by Rebecca Galemba

March, 2016 / By Rebecca Galemba

Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate?