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Regina is a scholarship application mentor, helping other FASS graduate students with their applications for major scholarships.

Indígena Worlds in Canada: An Ethnography of Mayan Migrant Farmworkers

Using ethnographic methods in Guatemala and BC, Regina explores how Indigenous migrant farmworkers build livable worlds through daily practices that are rooted in transnational social relations and processes of homing. She argues that although migrant farmworkers come to Canada under temporary work visas, they create vibrant community spaces that transcend the assumed temporality of their work. Her project is part of a larger political effort to achieve dignity for all migrant workers by contesting the structural violence embedded in Canada’s temporary work programs. She joins migrant and labour advocates in calling for permanent residency upon arrival for all migrant workers in Canada.

Transnationally Indigenous

Regina is Project Manager and Researcher for , which looks at Indigenous people’s involvement in shaping the world in the past and the present. Specifically, studying Indigenous delegations between Japan, China, and Canada from the 1970s to the 2010s. The Transnationally Indigenous Project uses a world-making perspective, a framework that emphasizes the ways in which humans spend much of their time and creative energy not just resisting oppressive frameworks but also working in diverse ways towards creating better futures.

Funding: the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the 91ÅÝܽ Aboriginal Strategic Initiative.

The Case of Mayan Migrant Farmworkers in Canada

Regina is research assistant, under the supervision of Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez, for The Case of Mayan Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. This project looks at Indigenous migration as an outcome of settler-colonialism, using a framework of disposability.