Xóchitl Bada is an Associate Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her articles have appeared in Forced Migration Review, Population, Space, and Place, Latino Studies, and Labor Studies Journal. She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Her areas of specialization include migrant access to political and social rights, migrant organizing strategies, and transnational labor advocacy mobilization in Mexico and the United States. She is co-editor of the books New Migration Patterns in the Americas (Palgrave, 2018) and Accountability across Borders (University of Texas Press, 2019). She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2019-2020.
Liliana Rivera-Sánchez received a Ph. D in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Professor and Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City. She is author of 15 books (monographies and edited), 25 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, more than 35 book chapters, in Spanish, English and French languages. Her most recent book is (as Editor): ¿Volver a casa? Migrantes de retorno en América Latina. Debates, tendencias y experiencias divergentes, Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2019.