Cesar E. Merlín Escorza

Cesar is a person who identifies himself as a permanent sojourner, a visitor, a traveler. He grew up in the peripheral area of Mexiko-Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). Cesar has visited many places and met different peoples in so-called Mexico and other territories within Abya Yala, which in part motivated him to go through higher education in the discipline of anthropology. Six years ago he traveled to so-called Europe, and settled to study and work in the Netherlands. Cesar works at the university, trying to finish his dissertation. As a PhD Candidate, he researched about practices of ‘sheltering’ with non-governmental organizations providing assistance to people on the move, and people in search for a ‘legal’ migratory status in Mexico and the Netherlands. He has found love in the practice of teaching-learning, as a docent. Zine-enthusiast, cook and disciple of Son Jarocho tradition, Cesar continues to imagine a world without borders and without the governing ruling of the state. To feed his imaginations, he works to organize and articulates with people whom embrace antiracist, antipatriarchal and anticolonial practices. Cesar loves his family, partner and friends but also La Madre, Earth, and most living beings within.