"Mediated Migrations: Mobility and Aspirational Economies in the Peruvian Andes"
Ulla D. Berg
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology
Rutgers University
Ulla D. Berg (Ph.D. Anthropology, NYU 2007) is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research focuses mobility, race, class, and performances of self in the context of transnational migration between Peru and the US. She has published articles in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latin American Perspectives, Identities, Latino Studies, Política Internacional, and e-misférica, among other journals. She is co-editor with Karsten Paerregaard of El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diásporicas en la Migración Peruana (IEP, 2005) and has also co-edited special issues on migration, borders, and transnational citizenship of the journals: e-misférica (2006), Latin American Perspectives (2010), and Identities (2013). Ulla is also a filmmaker and has directed the documentary Waiting for Miracles (2003). She is currently working on a documentary about the Peruvian poet Domingo de Ramos.