UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When political infrastructures like social safety nets fail, the women and mothers who rely on state-supported programs use migration as a means of taking care of their families. Solange Muñoz, assistant professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will discuss how studying migration, care and motherhood as infrastructures in their own right can help researchers better understand these processes during a talk at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 4.
The talk will take place in 112 Walker Building and be broadcast via Zoom.
Muñoz is an urban and cultural geographer and a Latin Americanist with long-standing interests in the political, economic and socio-spatial processes of inequality, marginalization and contestation in the urban landscapes of Latin America and the United States. Her research engages with current debates on the social and spatial consequences of globalization, neoliberal urban development and gentrification for traditionally marginalized urban communities with focus on the social and spatial significance of housing, home and infrastructures.
Muñoz’s talk is part of the spring 2022 Coffee Hour seminar series hosted by Penn State’s Department of Geography.