Victoria Hattam

Victoria Hattam is a Professor of Politics working on political economy and inequality. While at the Heilbroner Center, Hattam will pursue her research along the US-Mexico border. Considerable media attention has been given to border walls and to the regulation of labor that walls entail. Hattam’s research shifts the focus from walls to the movement of capital. Capital does not flow naturally: it is carried across the Rio Grande. Examining specific policies that enable capital to cross the US-Mexico border changes the political calculus behind calls for border security and makes apparent new coalition possibilities in support of open borders.