Profile
María Cristina Hall is a research associate studying migration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Center for Research on North America (CISAN, UNAM). With a regional perspective, she studies the paradoxes of US immigration policy, in which cruelty and migratory restrictions are put at the service of electoral and political interest, even though immigration is essential to the US economy.
She has a Ph.D. in political and social sciences from UNAM and a master’s in translation studies from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). At Columbia University, she earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and political science (magna cum laude).
She has taught at universities including Tec de Monterrey, Universidad de Guadalajara, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
She enjoys writing and translating. At CISAN, she contributes regularly to Voices of Mexico.
Position:
Research Associate “C”, Article 51, in the Regional and Interregional Studies Area.
Research Areas
- Migration and borders in North America
- Labor and migration in North America
Recent Publications
2025. Contemporary Global Thinking from Latin American Women: Writings from the Margins. Estimado 2025. Aurea Mota, Laura Fólica y Diana Roig-Sanz (eds.). María Cristina Hall (traductora con nota introductoria). Berlín: De Gruyter.
2024. “The Contributions of Latinx Art to the Fight for Social Justice in the US” en Migration and the Rise of the United States. The Role of Old and New Diasporas. Amba Pande & Camelia Tigau (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
2023. Las artes como vehículo de integración para personas deportadas y retornadas de Estados Unidos a México. Tesis doctoral. UNAM.
2022. “El aparato migratorio canadiense: un sistema menos liberal de lo que parece” en Canadá y sus paradojas en el siglo XXI, vol. 2. Martínez-Zalce y Tigau (eds.). Ciudad de México: UNAM-CISAN.
2018. “Migración y lenguaje. Enseñanza del español a retornados y deportados: un estudio de caso” en ¿Santuarios educativos en México? Proyectos y propuestas ante la criminalización de jóvenes dreamers, retornados y deportados. Garrido de la Calleja & Anderson (eds.). Veracruz: Universidad Veracruzana.