Marlene Ramos

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Research Interests

  • Immigration enforcement, surplus labor, environmental justice, participatory action research.

Specialization: Geography

Dissertation Topic: United States political economy of immigration enforcement.

Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore


Marlene Nava Ramos is a doctoral student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center where she studies the U.S. political economy of immigration enforcement, with a focus on the New York metropolitan region. Ramos currently teaches in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences at Lehman College.