Juan Carlos Jimenez

I am a Ph.D. Student in Human Geography at the University of Toronto’s Geography and Planning Department. My interests include youth migration, rural livelihoods, community development, climate change adaptation, emotional geographies, geographies of trauma, and agrarian change in Latin America. I conduct research in El Salvador and Nicaragua on themes that include climate insurance, climate impacts, rural livelihood diversification, community-based adaptation practices, historical memory, youth studies, social reproduction, and migration and displacement. I identify as a Salvadorian Canadian and am the son of Salvadorian refugees to Toronto. As a community-based researcher and activist, I also do research with Central American Diaspora in South Ontario using Photovoice to discuss experiences with migration, historic trauma, and community responses to trauma.