Scholarly Interests:

Dr. Simmons has authored and co-authored works relating to migration, borders, humanitarianism, and gender in Latin America.

Relevant Publications and/or Presentations:

Simmons, Victoria. 2023. “On ‘Bulking Up’: Humanitarian Borders and State Making in Mexico.” In Borders and Migration: The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective, edited by Michael Carpenter, Melissa Kelly, and Oliver Schmidtke. University of Ottawa Press.https://doi.org/10.1515/9780776638072

Basok, Tanya, Nicola Piper and Victoria Simmons. 2013. “Shaping Female Migration in Argentina: Human Rights in the Time of Migration Management." Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, edited by Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud. Palgrave Macmillan, 162-184.

Simmons, Victoria. 2012. “La migración laboral de mujeres jefas de hogar nicaragüenses a Costa Rica: ¿Una migración forzada encubierta?” (Nicaraguan Migrant Women’s Labour Migration to Costa Rica: A Forced Migration Hidden from View?) Género en Nuestra América. México, D.F.: Ediciones Eón, 121-146.

Simmons, Victoria. 2011. "‘Somos luchadoras:’ Género y procesos de negociación en la migración de las mujeres jefas de hogar nicaragüenses" (‘We are fighters:’ Gender and Negotiation in the Migration of Female Nicaraguan Heads of Household). Temas de Coyuntura 63: 107-143. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Caracas, Venezuela.