Macarena Bonhomme will carry out a research stay in Cambridge

Macarena Bonhomme, young researcher of the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), will carry out a research stay at the Department of Sociology of the University of Cambridge in October, in the framework of the ANID’s Strengthening of Doctoral Programs project, awarded by the PhD in Social Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de Chile.

As a Visiting Professor, the academic will collaborate in the new project of an Antiracist Research Institute, led by Professor of Sociology Mónica Moreno Figueroa. She will also present her work on racism in the context of migration to students and researchers at the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS).

“This research stay is an excellent opportunity to learn about the work of other academics and to collaborate in international research projects that allow us to develop a broad view of the processes of racialization and also the forms of anti-racist resistance that emerge globally. It is also an opportunity to position Chile in the debates on racial issues at the Latin American and global level, since it has usually been left out”, says Macarena.

In addition, the academic hopes that this research instance will allow her to develop institutional collaborations, and to involve and train more graduate students in these areas, thus generating more possibilities for collaboration among students at the international level.

“I would love to promote a research agenda to develop comparative studies to not only understand the emerging forms of racism, but also to reveal the forms of anti-racist resistance at the global level that are key to mitigate this problem. It would be interesting to be able to account for how digital platforms contribute to these forms of resistance -something I am currently researching- and thus delve not only into digital divides, but also into the opportunities that emerge from social networks and digital platforms for disadvantaged racialized people,” concludes the young NUDOS researcher.