Caitlyn Yates is a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on human security, transit migration, extracontinental migration, migrant smuggling, and borders in Latin America. She has conducted ethnographic and policy-related fieldwork on migration topics throughout the region. Yates is a fellow in the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and an affiliate of the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Migration Studies. She has also been a research consultant with the Migration Policy Institute.
She holds a Master of Global Policy Studies from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in anthropology from Trinity University.