SIMRM 2023

Emma Empociello

Ph.D Student, Political Science

Emma Empociello is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Center Emile Durkheim at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France and a Fulbright Fellow at UC San Diego (10/2022-09/2023). She works on comparative public policies, migration politics and international cooperation.Her research dissertation compares migration politics in Greece, Hungary and Jordan, within which she has been carrying out intensive fieldwork since 2017. Now, she focuses on the history of cooperation between the U.S. and Jordan, and U.S. migration politics. She is based in San Diego and carries out fieldwork in Washington D.C....

Alejandro Gutierrez-Li

Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NCSU

Alejandro Gutierrez-Li is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. His work has analyzed the role of pre-migration work experience of immigrants in their labor market opportunities in the United States, factors affecting Mexico-U.S. migration, the determinants of the farm labor supply, and the economic outcomes of Hispanics, among others. Additionally, Dr. Gutierrez-Li is in charge of a new outreach/extension program related to agricultural labor in the U.S. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics...

Steven Herrera Tenorio

Ph.D. student, Departments of Sociology and Demography

Steven Herrera Tenorio (he/him/his) is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Departments of Sociology and Demography at UC-Berkeley. His research interests are on rationality, decision-making, immigration, and racial stratification, and his current project focuses on the residential mobility behavior of immigrants in the U.S. South. Steven is also interested in mixed methods approaches (causal inference, demography, and in-depth interviews). He is very thankful for all of the people that worked in the background to make this possible, as well as the invited guest lecturers and presenters.

Yujung Hwang

Assistant Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University

Yujung Hwang is an assistant professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. She works on applied microeconomics about topics related to immigration, race, and culture. She received her Ph.D. degree in economics from Yale University in the year 2019, and her dissertation was about South Asian immigrants' cultural assimilation in the UK. Before joining Johns Hopkins in 2020, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She grew up in South Korea and completed her undergraduate degree in economics and mathematics at Yonsei University in Seoul in the year...

Cristine Khan

PhD Candidate in Sociology at CUNY

Cristine Khan is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. Her research examines the impact of colonialism and global anti-Blackness on second-generation Indo-Caribbean identity movements in New York and Toronto. Cristine also works as an adjunct instructor in the Macaulay Honors Program at Hunter College. She is the Part-Time Coordinator for the BRES Collaboration Hub and for the Teaching and Learning Center where she helps manage programming and conducts workshops related to place-based and abolitionist pedagogy. She also spent many years working as a full-time Instructor at...

Silvana Larrea Schiavon

DrPH Student at UC Berkeley

Silvana was trained as a medical doctor with a specialty in preventive medicine, before undertaking an MPH with a focus on epidemiology at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. Currently, she is continuing her studies in public health as a second-year student in the DrPH program at UC Berkeley. She is working as a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley on projects related to youth experiencing homelessness in California. Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health, migration and health, and health inequalities. She enjoys reading, biking and walking...

Mitzia Martinez

Doctoral Student , JSP in Berkeley Law School

Mitzia is a rising fourth-year doctoral student at the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program in Berkeley Law School. Her research examines how becoming a green card holder impacts the self-concept, sense of community, and relationships of formerly undocumented immigrants. Her inspiration to pursue this research comes from her own lived experience as she was undocumented for 16 years. Mitzia immigrated from México at the age of nine with her parents and two younger siblings. She is the first person in her family to graduate from college and pursue a graduate education.

Maria De Jesus Mora

Assistant Professor in the Sociology

Maria De Jesus Mora is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology, Gerontology, and Gender Studies department at California State University, Stanislaus. As a first-generation scholar from a migrant community, her research centers on race, immigration, and social movements. In her scholarly work, Maria documents how immigrant and racialized groups use their organizational infrastructures to mobilize against policy threats and sustain activism in the long term for immigrant rights social movements. Her current work examines the political participation of Latinx farmworkers in California.

Janet Muniz

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology

Dr. Janet Muñiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. She is first-generation and from a working-class Mexican immigrant background. She obtained a B.A. in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University, and completed her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2021 from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Muñiz teaches and does research around Latinx communities, ethnic identity, and entrepreneurship.

Bianca Ortiz-Wythe

Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy

Bianca Ortiz-Wythe is a doctoral candidate in public policy at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received her master’s degree in history and public policy from the George Washington University. There she was awarded the Elmer Lewis Kayser prize for best master’s thesis for her work on nutrition policy during WWII. Currently, she is writing her dissertation which explores the experiences of Guatemalan asylum in alternative to detention. Her research interests include migration and gender, immigration law, and social...