Guadalupe Chavez

I received my DPhil (PhD) from the Department of Politics and International Relations in May 2025. 

My thesis, Back to the Homeland: The Politics of Return Migration in Mexico 1929 to 2018, explored how the Mexican government has managed flows of return migration from the U.S to Mexico and the processes that have shaped Mexico's management preferences over time. My thesis was supervised by Professor David Doyle. 

I am currently a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.  As a PPFP fellow, I am working on a few projects about the politics of return migration from the US to Mexico, migration governance in Mexico, and how illicit groups shape migration flows in Central America, Mexico, and the US.