López, María, ‘Women on the run: Narrative of Violence against Women in transit through Mexico’, 2023-2025

Professor María López, ‘ Women on the run: Narrative of Violence against Women in transit through Mexico’, 2023-2025

This 24-month project (November 2023 – November 2025) is led by Professor María López (Deputy Director, Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University) with research assistants from the University of California San Diego, US and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

Through the first-hand accounts of migrant women and practitioners in the field, this research presents the experience of the migration journey as a transformative experience that leads many women to challenge learned gender power structures. In doing so, we challenge the notion of migrant women in transit across Mexico as merely passive individuals and victims of the system.