Research Catalogue

Keina Espiñeira is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Visual Communication, A Coruña University (Spain). She graduated in Political Science and in Visual Studies. She holds a PhD in Political Conflict and Peace Processes from Complutense University and an M.A. in Documentary Cinema from Alcalá University. Her research focuses on the politics of migration and asylum in the Mediterranean region, she focuses her empirical research on the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa. She teaches international relations, comparative politics, border and migration studies. Her artistic research practice arises from politics and academic activism, involving fieldwork from a multidisciplinary approach. She is director of documentary films in which she explores cultural geographies, landscapes and mythologies between Africa and Europe. Borders have a pivotal role in her work. In 2016, her film 'Tout le monde aime le bord de la mer', was awarded at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and nominated by the European Film Awards Academy in the category of Best Short Film. In 2017-2018, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School). Previously, she was visiting researcher at the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California Berkeley, at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research in the Netherlands and at the Geography Departments of the Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi Tangier and the Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech, both in Morocco. Keina is currently working on the intersections of cinema and geography, exploring aesthetic audiovisual methodologies in the study of landscape and memory.