Professional Affiliation

Professor, George Mason University

Expert Bio

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are organized crime, migration studies, US-Mexico relations, border studies, drug policy, social movements and human trafficking. She is author of Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017; Spanish version: Planeta, 2018). Her newest book (co-authored with Sergio chapa) is entitled Frontera: A Journey across the U.S.-Mexico Border (Texas Christian University Press, 2024). Professor Correa-Cabrera is Past President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS). She is co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives (ISP) journal.

Wilson Center Project

Trafficking in Persons, Irregular Immigration and Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico

Project Summary

Through this project, the researcher will systematize and analyze some of the information obtained through an 18 month JTIP research grant that involved extensive field research to understand the role of transnational organized crime in the trafficking of migrants in the “Northern Triangle” of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) and along Mexico’s eastern migration routes. During the duration of this fellowship, the researcher proposes to produce four publishable articles (one per country of study) presenting the results of this research that can eventually form part of a book on this relevant and understudied subject.

Major Publications

Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies (co-edited with Kathleen Staudt): The Multiple U.S.-Mexico Borders. Volume 29, Issue 4, 2014.
Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy and Civil War in Mexico (UT Press, forthcoming Spring 2017).