A specialist in Mexican politics and development, she is currently conducting research on various forms of social and political violence in Oaxaca. Annie Lapalme is a graduate student at the Université de Montréal. She’s currently completing a master’s degree in Geography with a research focus on Mexican asylum seekers in Canada. She is an active member of Mexicanos Unidos por la Regularizacion as well as others migrant justice advocacy groups in Montreal. For more from the Border Wars blog, visit nacla.org/blog/border-wars.