Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera

Her prior experience includes her work as assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at both Dartmouth College and Drake University.

Her academic accomplishments and research pertain to the field of Latinx national migration, indigenous communities in the United States and Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.

[clarification needed] Other scholars who have contributed in the area of indigenous transnational migration include [Lynn Stephen], Jonathan Fox, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado and Robert C.

In this piece, she argues conflict and migration are "interrelated parts of broad historical, economic, and political processes" that unfold through the "circulation of people, ideas, and goods".

This understanding of transnational migration as part of the process of local conflict offers a new perspective for social workers working with indigenous migrants.