DPhil Student in Migration
St John's College
Thesis title: Breaching the Modern City: (Re)production of social hierarchies and moral economies among Venezuelans in the transnational dispute over the right to the city
Research: Erick’s work examines how public and political discourses consolidate social categories and boundaries that shape the lived experience of (would-be) migrants. His interests lie in the intersection of cultural anthropology, human geography, and social theory. Erick’s current research focuses on how the interplay of extractionist politics and modernising agendas mediated by the state in Venezuela inform social relations among diasporic Venezuelans beyond the national territory.
Research keywords: Migration, Venezuela, USA, Social Hierarchies, Race, Class, Gender, Representational Practices, Social and Political Discourses, Extractionist Politics, Urban Planning, Spatial Politics, Time and Temporality, Modernities.
Background and interests: Erick’s doctoral project is funded by a Clarendon Scholarship and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, funded by an Oxford Refugee Scholarship. Erick is interested in collaborating with other migration experts, artists and curators in the development and facilitation of participatory, socially engaged and public outreach projects outside the context of academia. He serves as the student representative on Oxford University's Sanctuary Steering Committee.
Contact: Erick.morenosuperlano@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Erick is co-supervised by Loren Landau.
