Gerardo Rodriguez-Solis is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, affiliated with the Division of Society and Environment at UC Berkeley. Gerardo holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, an M.A. in social anthropology from El Colegio de Michoacán, and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad de Guadalajara. Gerardo's research experiences focus on labor migration, agrarian capitalism, anti-indigenous racism, and state formation, with a specialization in the study of interlocking violence of plantation and bordering regimes to control human labor mobility and impose white-mestizo orders in Mexico.
Gerardo's research examines how transnational corporations implement socially responsible practices and how state agencies cheer this agribusiness management style while migrant workers confront hyper-surveillance, racial hostility, and labor exploitation in agricultural carceral geographies. Gerardo has analyzed this disputed process through ethnographic studies in contemporary plantations in western and northern Mexico. His publications explore various aspects of agrarian migrant labor, including financial exclusion (Journal of Development Studies), memory and resistance (Revista Latinoamericana de Antropología del Trabajo), racial narratives (Revista del Noroeste de México), social policy (Carta Económica Regional), and spatial controls (Anthropology News).
