FIRST DAY
Opening plenary
Camilo Perez-Bustillo & Ilka Vega | Hope Border Institute
Transnational Dimensions of Transitional Justice for Migrants in the U.S-Mexico Border Region
Session I: Kidnapping, Detention & Migration Flows
Caitlyn Yates & Stephanie Leutert | IBI Consultants & the Strauss Center for International Security and Law
Migrant Kidnapping in Mexico: Regional Differences
Gabriella Sanchez | European University Institute
Intersectional Approaches in Kidnapping Scholarship
Session II: Kidnapping Dynamics in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Jeremy Slack | The University of Texas at El Paso
Beyond the Ransom Narrative: Migrant and Deportee Kidnapping in Mexico
Conor O’Reilly & Camilo Tamayo Gomez | University of Leeds
Intimacy Interrupted: Kidnapping and Kidnap-Prevention in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Zulia Yanzadig Orozco Reynoso | Justice in Mexico
Real Estate & Kidnapping in Tijuana, Mexico
Session III: Gender Perspectives on Crimes of (Im)mobility and Absence
Arely Cruz-Santiago | Durham University
The Untold Journeys of Citizen-Led Forensics in Mexico
Cynthia Werner | Texas A&M University
How Does Bride Kidnapping Inform Broader Studies of Kidnapping? The Case of Bride Kidnapping in Eurasia
SECOND DAY
Opening plenary
Carlos Spector | Spector Law Firm
Legal Impediments to Extortion/Kidnapping-Based Asylum Claims
Session IV: Political Kidnapping, Civil Society and Social Justice
Temitope Oriola | University of Alberta
Kidnapping and Oil Politics: The Case of Nigeria
Camilo Tamayo Gomez | University of Leeds
From Resilience to Memory: Understanding Kidnapping in Colombia from a Civil Society Perspective
Carlos Spector & Samuel Schmidt| Spector Law Firm & UT Austin
Authorized Crime, Kidnapping, Extortion and the State in Mexico
Session V: Kidnapping, (Im)mobility and Frontier Spaces
Gustavo Duncan | EAFIT University
Controlling people, Controlling Crime: The Case of Medellín (1970 - 2019)
David Shirk & Zulia Yanzadig Orozco Reynoso | University of San Diego & Justice in Mexico
Kidnapping in the San Diego-Tijuana Region
Emiliano Ignacio Díaz Carnero | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Violencias, Diálogo y Construcción de Condiciones de Paz
Session VI: Mapping, Crime-Apping and Kidnapping
Ernesto Schwartz-Marin | University of Exeter
Hydraulic Democracy: From the Uros in Titicaca to Crime-Apping ‘Secuestro’ in Mexico
Georgina Jiménez & Carolina Torreblanca | Data Cívica
Is There a Kidnapping Epidemic in Mexico City’s Subway?