Dr. Manzano-Munguía is a Mexican-Canadian research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Puebla, Mexico (Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; MA University of Guelph, Ontario; BA University of the Americas-Puebla, Puebla, Mexico). Member of the National Research System since 2014, level 1 (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, CONACYT), Perfil Deseable del Profesorado (PRODEP/SEP), and belongs to the academic research group “Racism, Identities, and Modes of Subjectivity” BUAP 254. She has published on issues related to Chinese-Mexicans transnationalism in Puebla, Chinese-Mexicans mobility, Indigenous forced transnationalism, First Nations transnationalism, Canadian Indian diaspora, Indian policy and legislation in Canada, among others. Her current research interests include the transpacific transnational connections between the Americas and the Pacific, economic and social exclusion, and Indigenous forced transnationalism across borderlands (the United States, Mexico, and Canada). Recipient of the “Phillips Fund for Native American Research,” the American Philosophical Society (APS) in 2012, and the “Democracy, Diasporas, and Canadian Security in International Perspective” in 2007–2008, the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS), York University, Toronto, Ontario. She is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar (American Studies Association (SSASA)) since 2012.