http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucb_es_uht/rss Recent eScholarship items from Undergraduate Honors Theses Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:10:02 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96g3s6px Between the years 2005-2010, 1.4 million Mexican migrants residing in the US migrated back to reside in Mexico. The state of Oaxaca, a primary return destination, holds the highest and most diverse population of Indigenous nations in Mexico, with especially strong forms of communal organization locally and in diaspora. This project consists of both a documentary film in progress and an Ethnic Studies honors thesis composed of interviews with migrants who have returned to their ancestral homelands in Oaxaca after living in the US for several years. In the record of migration literature, theorizations of return migration have centered around settler colonial, nation-state forces of immobilization and confinement, thus, overlooking and oversimplifying the complex affective experiences of return. In contrast to such literature, my methodology and theoretical framework, grounded in Cine Comunitario (communal filmmaking) and Border Abolition, intentionally facilitate relationship building... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96g3s6px Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Aguilar, Danielle Cosmes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mh9r0vm Traditional, Western geographers have theorized a separation between land, capital, and labor, which naturalizes a conception of geography as completely independent of sociohistorical factors. This conventional ideology strips the landscape from its ongoing relationship with capital and labor, isolating the land from its white supremacist histories, which—according to Andrea Smith—are embodied through processes of anti-black racism/slaveability, genocide, and orientalism. Scholarship in critical geography has revealed that forces of colonialism and imperialism transcend conventional spatial-temporal limitations, constructing geographies of confinement for people in contemporary times. In focusing on Moms 4 Housing—a collective of Black, marginally housed mothers in Oakland, California—along with Abahlali baseMjondolo (Abahlali)—a Black, South African grassroots movement run by and for shack dwellers in Durban, South Africa—this paper investigates how racial capitalism maps onto... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mh9r0vm Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Sozi, Jasmine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hq3q40s Re-Indigenizing Spaces: How Mapping Racial Violence Shows the Interconnections Between Settler Colonialism and Gentrification https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hq3q40s Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Lopez, Jocelyn