Alexandra Délano Alonso is Associate Professor of Global Studies at The New School and the current holder of the Eugene M. Lang Professorship for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. Her work is driven by a concern with the inequalities underlying the causes of migration, the structures that lead to the marginalization of undocumented migrants in the public sphere, and the limited protection of their rights, from a transnational perspective. Her book Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 was the co-winner of the William LeoGrande Prize for the best book on US-Latin America Relations.

"All in all, this book shows evidence of how states of origin can have a positive influence on the integration of their citizens living in other countries. Thus, it is a highly recommendable read for policy-makers involved in the formulation of integration and diaspora policies; academic colleagues interested in the study of transnationalism, citizenship and integration policies; and for migrants themselves, the book's main protagonist, since they will surely be inspired to find new ways of organizing and new areas of mobilization." -- Pau Palop-García, Institue of Latin American Studies, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, International Migration Review

"Alexandra Délano Alonso's work...provides valuable insights for a further reconceptualization of theories of immigrant integration." -- Lara Wilhelmine Hoffmann, Nordicum-Mediterraneum

"Délano's research remains especially relevant in the current U.S. era of nativism, enhanced immigration enforcement, and a hardening retrenchment of services that is harming low-wage immigrants in particular. Délano's account poses important questions about the limits of bilateral coordination around immigrant wellbeing, especially when the administration of the receiving country seems more interested in building physical, as well as economic and political, walls with its southern neighbours." --Shannon Gleeson, Ethnic and Racial Studies

"This book brilliantly dismantles, and then carefully reconstructs, the idea of immigrant 'integration.' Examining diaspora policies of Latin American sending-states alongside activism of migrants in and out of the U.S., Délano Alonso complicates standard conceptualizations of integration's objects, agents, locations and directionality. This is a captivating account of transnational politics in action."-Linda Bosniak, author of The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

"From Here and There is based on an impressive array of materials and tackles an original topic: the programs that the Mexican and other Latin American consulates have developed to support the integration of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants into the United States. It is key reading for scholars who specialize in immigration, citizenship, transnationalism, and the state, as it breaks new ground in theorizing and detailing the role of the state via diasporic citizens."-Susan Coutin, Exiled Home: Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence

"In this beautifully written, closely researched account, Délano Alonso demonstrates how sending state actors throughout Latin America influence and protect their nationals abroad, thereby taking on many of the functions once considered the responsibility of receiving states. Her book offers an insightful and nuanced account of how citizenship, social welfare, and sovereignty are redefined as a result and about who the new winners and losers are."-Peggy Levitt, author of Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display