Caitlin Patler is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Dr. Patler is a sociologist whose research examines US immigration and criminal laws, legal statuses, and law enforcement institutions as drivers of socioeconomic and health disparities. Dr. Patler also studies the spillover and intergenerational consequences of systemic inequality for children and household wellbeing. Dr. Patler has received multiple grants and awards for her research on undocumented immigrant young adults, the impacts of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the US immigration prison system. She serves on the Editorial Board of Social Problems. Dr. Patler has served as an expert in over a dozen federal court cases related to immigration policy and her research has been cited in the US Supreme Court.
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Associate Professor of Public Policy
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