Faculty

Irene Bloemraad

Professor of Sociology

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...

Stephanie L. Canizales

Faculty Director
BIMI Team

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...

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...