Julia Youngs

DPhil Candidate  

Affiliation: Sustainable Urban Development, Department of Continuing Education
Expert in: Borders and detention, Migration narratives, representations, and public opinion
Geographic focus: US-Mexico borderlands in New Mexico

Julia's work focuses on the language of migration, bordering, and climate change within narratives produced by community-led environmental organizations in New Mexico, USA. Through discourse analysis and visual methodologies, her work examines how environmental organizations link climate change and transnational migration along the US-Mexico border to argue both for and against increased border securitization as a climate mitigation strategy. Within this work she looks at the socio-linguistic construction of borders and bordering among eco-fascist and abolitionist groups.