Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Migrant Urbanism
South-South Migration
Urban Informality
Environmental Justice in Cities of the Global South
Urban Infrastructures
Decoloniality
Education
Ph.D., University of Denver
M.A., University of Denver
B.A., California State University, Fullerton
Courses Taught
GEOG 106 - Geographies of Globalization
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Recent Publications
Alvarado, N. A. (2021). Political Infrastructures, Infrastructures of Citizenship! Self-Installed Urban Services and the Incremental Acquisition of Rights by Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica.. Manuscript in preparation.
Alvarado, N. A. (2021). Shitty Citizenships, Trashy Politics: Migrant Spaces, Racism, and Street Politics in Costa Rica.. Manuscript in preparation.
Alvarado, N. A. (Accepted/In press). Migrant Politics in the Urban Global South: The Political Work of Nicaraguan Migrants to Acquire Urban Rights in Costa Rica. Geopolitics, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1777399
Alvarado, N. A. (2020). Where Are the Cities? On Not Excluding (Much More Than) Half of the Latin Americans in Latin Americanist Geography. Journal of Latin American Geography, 19(1), 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2020.0006
LaVanchy, T., Taylor, M., Alvarado, N. A., Sveinsdóttir, A., & Aguilar-Støen, M. (2020). Tourism in Post-revolutionary Nicaragua: Struggles over Land, Water, and Fish. (SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55632-7