Elise Hjalmarson
Critical Migration Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley • Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Fellow • Editor at Allegra Lab • Co-Founder of RAMA Okanagan
- Role
- Director at One Shared Future Un Futuro Compartido
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Elise Hjalmarson
I do global research with people on the move. In 2024, I completed my PhD in Anthropology & Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where I was a member of its Global Migration Centre. I am also the co-founder of the Okanagan-based migrant justice group RAMA and an affiliate of the Swiss School of Latin American Studies. Situated at the intersection of migration, gender, and Latin American studies, my dissertation considers the negotiation of competing desires, values, and aspirations by Cuban women living in Spain. In my role as Research Assistant for the ERC-funded project ‘Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the “Good Life” in Times of Crisis’, led by Dr. Valerio Simoni, I also explore the affective and moral dispositions engendered by the comparison of various sites along people’s migration trajectories.The pursuit of migrant justice underlays all of my work to varying degrees. My broad research and teaching interests include migration and migrant labor, nationalism and borders, gender and feminist theory, racism and white supremacy, and contemporary Latin American politics and society. To date, I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork among diverse Latin Americans in Spain, and Jamaican and Mexican migrant farmworkers in Canada.
Experience
Director
One Shared Future Un Futuro Compartido
Feb 2026 — Present
Education
The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts, International Relations
2007 — 2012
The University of British Columbia
Teaching Scholars Credentialing Program
2014
l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Grenoble
French, Political Science, Media
2011 — 2011
Geneva Graduate Institute
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology and Anthropology
2018
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French
2008 — 2008
The University of British Columbia
Master of Arts (M.A.), Political Studies | Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies
2013 — 2016
Skills
- Research
- Coaching Staff
- Digital Media
- Social Media
- Photography
- Social Justice
- Teaching
- Time Management
- Community Outreach
- Editing
- Committed to Professionalism
- Community Organizing
- Public Speaking
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- French
- Writing
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