Juliana Valente

Student Fellow

Juliana Valente is a PhD candidate in the cultural anthropology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current project interrogates notions of citizenship and belonging by looking at how criminalized youth in Brazil obtain and make use of identity documents. She is interested in understanding how bureaucratic institutions produce the apparatuses of surveillance that are nevertheless key for making claims to rights. Furthermore, she seeks to shed light on how people push back on such projects through their creative uses of IDs. Prior to beginning her PhD, Juliana worked at an NGO in Brazil with youth convicted of committing crimes. She received her master’s in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and her Bachelors in sociology and education from Vassar College.

Participating Years

2025–2026

Mobility: Transit and Transformation

Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.