The Balsillie School community extends warmest congratulations to Diana Zacca Thomaz who successfully defended her thesis, “Neighbouring horizons: migration, squatting, and citizenship in São Paulo” on November 5, 2020. The committee was thoroughly impressed by the quality of the dissertation and defence and will be nominating her for a medal of excellence!
Special thanks to her supervisors, Kim Rygiel and Paul Freston, and committee members Alison Mountz and Peter Neyrs, internal/external Alex Latta and external examiner, Anne McNevin, The New School, New York, USA.
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Diana’s research investigates how ‘undesirable’ migrants resist being governed, how they challenge the limits imposed on their political subjectivity by…