Faculty

Irene Bloemraad

Professor of Sociology
BIMI Team

How do immigrants become incorporated into the political communities where they live? What are the consequences of their presence for politics and understandings of membership? Irene Bloemraad’s research investigates how immigration reshapes electoral and contentious politics in North America and Europe, and the contours of citizenship and national identity.

Read an interview with Bloemraad discussing her work on the National Academy of Sciences report on immigrant...

Jenny S. ​Guadamuz

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & 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...

Harpreet Mangat

Executive Director
BIMI Team

Dr. Harpreet Mangat is Executive Director of Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. She has held various positions on campus at the Berkeley Public Policy, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. Prior to coming to the States, Harpreet was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Guru Nanak Dev University. In India, she did research on border exclusions and gender. She was also a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, she studied the Indian immigrant diaspora in the...