We are proud to share that Antonia Mardones Marshall, Principal Investigator at the MIGRA Millennium Nucleus and faculty member at Universidad de Tarapacá, has been awarded the 2025 James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award by the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Her paper, titled “Immigration and the Boundaries of Black Political Subjecthood in Argentina and Chile” (published in International Migration Review), was selected among 46 submissions for its outstanding theoretical sophistication, empirical depth, and critical contribution to the fields of race, migration, and global sociology.
In this comparative study, Dr. Mardones Marshall examines how Afro-descendant movements in Argentina and Chile have differently conceptualized and mobilized around Black political subjecthood and legal inclusion. Her analysis reveals contrasting frameworks: a transnational-racial model in Argentina and a national-ethnic model in Chile, shaped by the interplay between state discourses, migration dynamics, and racialized belonging.
According to the ASA award committee, the paper is “theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and always with keen attention to interlocutors’ humanity.”
Read the article here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01979183241277544
We celebrate this international recognition of the rigorous and impactful research carried out within our team. Congratulations, Antonia!
Our work is important, so we appreciate it if you cite the use of the code and figures available in this repository.
MIGRA, N. (2024). MIGRA Repository (Version 2.0.4) [Computer software].
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