Mar
2
Event
Digital Nomads and the Politics of Remote Work in Mexico and Puerto Rico
Héctor Beltrán, Class of 1957 Career Development Associate Professor, MIT Department of Anthropology
This talk explores the contradictions and consequences of digital nomadism in Mexico and Puerto Rico, highlighting how race, class, and infrastructure shape remote work across the Americas. Drawing from ethnographic research, it centers both privileged mobile workers and those made nomadic by structural precarity.
Héctor Beltrán is a sociocultural anthropologist who draws upon his interdisciplinary background to study how the technical aspects of computing inform and are shaped by social structures and lived experiences of identity, race, ethnicity, class, and nation.
This seminar will be held in E40-496 (Pye Room). Lunch will be available. Please RSVP here.
Contact Kate Danahy at kdanahy@mit.edu with any questions.
This event is part of the CIS Global Research & Policy Seminar Series and is co-sponsored by MIT-Mexico. Join our mailing list here to learn about upcoming seminars in the series.
