María Cervantes-Macías
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María Cervantes-Macías is a labour geographer whose research sits at the intersection of migration, digital labour, and labour market governance. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Migration Studies and an Affiliate Member of the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her work explores how platform economies and migration regimes are reshaping Canadian cities, with a focus on the everyday experiences of immigrant workers navigating the platform economy. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the U.S.–Mexico Center at the University of California, San Diego, and a former Fox International Fellow at Yale University. Across her research, María examines how borders, technology, and inequality produce uneven possibilities for mobility, work, and belonging across North America.
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Cervantes-Macías, M. E. (2026). Uneven development in the platform economy: Stratified immigration policies and uneven access to transnational social protections in North America. Digital Geography and Society, 100164.
Cervantes-Macías, M (2025). Producing the highly skilled migrant: the mobility journeys of Mexican professionals in North America. Population, Space and Place. doi: 10.1002/psp.70142
Marcucci, S., Verhulst, S., & Cervantes, M. E. (2025). When forecasting and foresight meet data and innovation: toward a taxonomy of anticipatory methods for migration policy. Data & Policy, 7, e24.
Cervantes-Macías, M. & Delaise, A.C. (2024). Temporal Trajectories: A Comparative Analysis of Mexican and Vietnamese Students’ Strategies in the Canadian Edugration System. Comparative and International Education.
Cervantes-Macías, M. (2022). Migration Data Collection and Management in a Changing Latin American Landscape. Data & Policy, 4, E40. doi:10.1017/dap.2022.34