Key research interests
Migration, (im)mobility and development; translocal livelihoods; families and care; remittances; borders; migrant trajectories; migrant illegalization; refugees and minorities; displacement and emplacement; migrant skills and capabilities; intersectionality; ethnography; multi-sited fieldwork
Key research areas
Central America (Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama); Ecuador; Spain
Current research project
African trajectories across Central America: displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes
Winters & Mora Izaguirre (2019) Es cosa suya: entanglements of border externalization and African transit migration in northern Costa Rica.
Winters, N. (2018) Beyond the bird in the cage? Translocal embodiment and trajectories of Nicaraguan female migrants in Seville, Spain. Geoforum (in press).
Winters, N. (2016) Embedding remittances: A methodological note on financial diaries in Nicaragua. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) 108 (2): 175-189.
Winters, N. (2014) Responsibility, mobility, and power: translocal carework negotiations of Nicaraguan families. International Migration Review 48 (2): 415-441.
Steel, G., N. Winters & C. Sosa (2011) Mobility, translocal development and the shaping of development corridors in (semi-)rural Nicaragua. International Development Planning Review 33 (4): 409-428.