UW–Madison’s Claudia Triana Ipinza has earned one of 35 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships awarded across the country for 2023. She will receive $27,500 to compete her dissertation and attend professional development retreats.
A doctoral student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, Ipinza is a scholar of comparative and international education, focusing her research on inequities at the intersection of im/migration and education policies, displacement, and resistance. Her scholarship is grounded on the need for border justice, and a recognition of the impact of U.S. empire on immigrant experiences.
Ipinza’s study, titled “‘It’s all we can take with us’: A comparative case study of im/migrant educational strategies in Mexico,” examines the educational strategies pursued by asylum seekers, undocumented immigrants, “de-facto” deportees (U.S.-born children whose Mexican parents are deported or repatriated), and Mexico-born (voluntary and involuntary) “returnees” who have spent time in the U.S. and returned to Mexico. In particular, it examines how im/migrant youth and their families remake their lives in Mexico with the help of or in relation to educational resources, and how those educational experiences influence their migration aspirations.
Learn more about Ipinza’s research.