Esther Alonso obtained her bachelor’s degree on International Relations and her master’s degree on United States-Mexico Studies at Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), at the Acatlán campus in the northern Mexico City region. She attained an honorable mention for her master’s thesis “The integration of Mexican immigrants in American society. The non-loss of their cultural identity and their links with Mexico during the nineties.”

 In addition, Ms. Alonso Gómez completed her Ph.D. on International Relations at UNAM’s prestigious College of Social and Political Sciences (2018-2022 Class) and she had completed coursework in Discourse Analysis and political narrative at IPSA-FLACSO in Mexico City, and U.S. policy and migration at the Zolberg Institute in New York’s The New School.

Esther has served as a consultant since April 2021 for the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC). She is currently the CMSC’s Coordinator of Academic Programs in Mexico and part of the Dreamers Study Abroad Program team.

She is also doing postdoctoral research at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City and collaborating with Karina Ruiz, the first immigrant Senator in the Mexican Congress.

Published Articles

•       The migration exceptionality of cosmopolitan cities: the case of New York during the Donald Trump presidency (2021)
•       Discrimination risk for immigrants during COVID-19 pandemic (2020)

Doctoral Dissertation:  

 The cosmopolitanism of global cities. Media analysis of undocumented migrants in New York and London