Liliana Frankel

Dispersión

I coordinated this project with my colleagues Santiago Narváez and Daniel Gómez Hernández to theorize and analyze official data from Mexico's National Immigration Institute [INM] regarding their migrant transfer practices. The final product includes a collective cartography, a report with graphics, a scrolly-telling narrative, and an interactive map. It was featured in the Border Chronicle.

School of welcome

I wrote this solutions piece about the first majority-migrant, majority-Black public high school in Tapachula, Chiapas and its dedicated staff.

Tapachula muro, Tapachula puente

This hand-sewn risography-printed zine synthesizes my own photos and interviews with archival materials from Tapachula's Historical Municipal Archive to tell the story of how the city became an "open-air prison." The zine was presented at a workshop at the Archaeology Museum of the Soconusco in August 2026, and will be shown again at the Red de Reproducción y Distribución (RRD) in San Miguel Chapultepec in Mexico City in November 2026.

Out of options

I reported this investigation over the course of three months with my colleague Cecilia Rangel López. We followed the stories of six Venezuelan women recently arrived to Mexico City, their choices to settle or to return home, and the geopolitical quid pro quos which conditioned their lives.

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Additional clips from The Nation, OregonLive, Teen Vogue, and the Malheur Enterprise, among others.