Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are border studies, U.S.-Mexico relations, international security, migration studies and illicit networks. Within the area of migration studies, she is particularly interested in the phenomena of human smuggling and trafficking of migrants. She is a very well-known scholar in these areas and has published extensively about US bound migration, US immigration and security policy, illicit markets and networks. Guadalupe was recently Principal Investigator of a research grant to study organized crime and trafficking in persons in Central America and along Mexico’s eastern migration routes, supported by the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Professor Correa-Cabrera is author of Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017; Spanish version: Planeta, 2018). She is co-editor (with Victor Konrad) of the volume titled North American Borders in Comparative Perspective (University of Arizona Press, 2020). Her two most recent books in Spanish (co-authored with Dr. Tony Payan) are Las Cinco Vidas de Genaro García Luna (The Five Lives of Genaro García Luna; El Colegio de México, 2021) and La Guerra Improvisada: Los Años de Calderón y sus Consecuencias (The Improvised War: Calderón’s Years and Consequences; Océano, 2021). Her newest book (co-authored with Sergio Chapa) is entitled Frontera: A Journey across the U.S.-Mexico Border (Texas Christian University Press, 2024).

Professor Correa-Cabrera is Past President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) and co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives journal (ISP, Oxford University Press). She is currently a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Mexico conducting research on the industry of human smuggling and its transnational crime networks. As part of this program she is a visiting scholar at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana, Baja California) and is writing her forthcoming book entitled Coyotes LLC. Dr. Correa-Cabrera is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics and issues related to (im)migration and the U.S.-Mexico Border in many media outlets.

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Areas of Research

• Border studies
• Border security
• Drug trafficking and organized crime
• Migration
• Human trafficking
• Energy and security
• U.S.-Mexico relations
• Contemporary Mexican politics
• Latin American politics
• Social Movements