Camila’s research looks at the intricacies of how neoliberal colonial power is reproduced and contested in contexts of live-in domestic work. They engaged in fieldwork in Costa Rica with kin networks that practice employment of domestic workers. Camila hopes to help people realize how their person's power influences interdependent systems, and wants to inspire people to consider possibilities for collective liberation in queering notions of community.

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Graduate Student International Experience award funds are available to University of Waterloo graduate students who participate in:

  • an academic exchange
  • a study term abroad related to research or an academic requirement
  • work, or volunteer experience in another country.

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Graduate Student International Experience Award recipients

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