Grace Stanley

A recent masters alum at The London School of Economics, Grace works in the space where economies, governments, and environments collide with a passion for implanting average citizens within these worlds. Performing this work with a distinct interest in how art and culture can change the world.

Below you will first find a video presentation of my UCLA International Development Studies Honors Thesis titled “Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco: An Ethnographer’s Experience” that I produced for UCLA Undergraduate Research Week. My thesis highlights Sub-Saharan migrants experience in Morocco as they are stuck for indeterminate periods of time. This research focuses on the ways in which migrants lose autonomy over their movement at the will of governments that use them as pawns, their economic endeavors in their new home of necessity, and the ways in which these migrants are perceived sociologically by Moroccans. I executed this research through informal observations and formal interviews.