University of British Columbia Department of Political Science Professor
I study the political and civic incorporation of immigrants into Western liberal democracies and the consequences of migrants’ presence for politics and receiving countries’ sense of national belonging. How do migrants gain voice in the political systems where they live?
One stream of research on this question investigates the acquisition of formal citizenship, as well as the experiential and conceptual contours of citizenship as membership. Other research examines the opportunities and limits of community-based organizations for advancing political voice and providing immigrant...
Stephanie L. Canizales, PhD, is a researcher, author, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California (2018).
Stephanie specializes in the study of international migration and immigrant integration, with particular interest in the experiences of Latin American-origin immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Over the last decade, Stephanie has focused her work...
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Jenny S. Guadamuz is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management. She is a member of the Latinx and Democracy Faculty Cluster.
Dr. Guadamuz is a health services researcher and pharmacoepidemiologist who uses an interdisciplinary approach to identify how structural determinants impact healthcare access, especially medications among minoritized racial/ethnic populations. Her current research focuses on health inequities across immigration status. Immigration status is a critical yet overlooked factor influencing...
Liliana V Rodriguez researches Latina/o sociology, international migration, immigrant youth, ethnographic research methods, and race and ethnicity studies. Her current work centers on the experiences of adolescent arrivals as they navigate life in the United States during contested political times. Her work has been published in journals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Migration Studies. She is a recipient of a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz was born and raised in Chicago. He is an associate professor of sociology and co-directs the Latinx Social Science Pipeline initiative and the Anticolonial Lab. Michael joined Berkeley's faculty as part of the Latinx and Democracy cluster.
He received his PhD (Sociology) from Brown University, his MA (Sociology) from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and his BA (Political Science and Mexican and Caribbean Studies) from Northeastern Illinois University. His research and teaching explore the politics of race, knowledge, and temporality, primarily in Latinx...
Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was a UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Political Science and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA in History from California State University, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California....
Tauhid Bin Kashem is a political scientist specializing in forced migration, global governance, and institutional change. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar. His research examines the ‘non-signatory’ puzzle—why states that have not signed the United Nations Refugee Convention host a substantial share of the world’s refugees. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, Tauhid analyzes how states in the Global South strategically engage with...
