I am a Graduate Student Research Assistant on BIMI's Mapping Spatial Inequality Project. I am interested in spatial patterns of health inequality and mortality. My primary research fields include spatial demography and public health. I work on the critically understudied relationship of space and demographic processes.
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, working at the interface of migration, gender, and development. My dissertation uses ethnographic methods to examine Indonesian guest workers’ incorporation into Asia’s postindustrial countries. I compare the migration experiences of women domestic workers and factory operators. To understand how brokers and states construct transnational labor markets in gendered ways, I conducted 22 months of participant observation in four Indonesian recruitment agencies and more than 120 interviews with government officials...
Zabdi is a second-year JSP student and is generally interested in immigration. She has conducted research on the experiences of central-American migrants in Texas and female Latin-American domestic workers in Spain. Her most recent paper is on the Evolution of the PSG Ground and Domestic Violence Asylum Claims. She aspires to become a law professor and contribute to the socio-legal literature on immigration.
Featured Works:
Salazar, Zabdi J. (2018) "Paradoxes of Gender Equality Policies and Domestic Working Conditions in Madrid," Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference...
My name is Alizée Natsoulis, I'm a 4th year at UCLA studying Human Biology and Society and minoring in Geospatial Information Systems. The Mapping Spatial Inequality project merges my interest in public health and social justice with my interest in GIS. I believe maps are a powerful tool to visualize data and make research findings accessible to the general public, bringing to light social problems such as the spatial mismatch between immigrant needs and service provision.
Hello! My name is Angelica Rodriguez, and I am a fourth-year political science student. As the daughter of two immigrant farmworkers, I have always been interested in immigration and immigrant rights. It is my hope to use the skill sets I learned from this project to improve my immigrant community in the Central Valley in the near future!
Alein Y. Haro, MPH, is a doctoral student in Health Policy - Population Health Sciences at UC Berkeley. Alein’s research examines the association between policies and health disparities among immigrant communities and minorities in the US. Her work seeks to clarify the individual, institutional, and structural mechanisms that link health and social policy changes to health care access and health outcomes. She is also a research fellow with the California Initiative for Health Equity and Action (Cal-IHEA), where she acts as a liaison between UC and CSU faculty and the policy-making...
Cheng Ren is a current Ph.D. student in Social Welfare and Designated Emphasis in Computational and Data Science and Engineering Program. He is interested in immigration due to his own migration experience. Cheng Ren 's current research projects include nonprofit organization and social enterprise development related to immigrants service with Geospatial analysis and Natural Language Processing under the supervision of Julian Chow. Cheng Ren is a BIMI Data Analyst and works on Projects Mapping Spatial Inequality and Mapping Immigrants At-Risk.
BIMI Graduate Student Researcher - Collegium Fellowship 2019
My research interests lie at the intersections of international migration, return migration, youth, citizenship, national identities, transnationalism, the criminalization of migrants, and the state. For my MA paper, I compare the “return” experiences of US born and Mexican born youth and young adult’s from the US to Oaxaca, Mexico. Specifically, focusing on how inclusion is constructed in everyday experiences, through identity work youth engage in to make claims on different forms of citizenships in response to a changing context.
Salomé graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020 and is delighted to return to BIMI as the Program Coordinator! She previously worked as a research assistant at BIMI mapping immigrant services and drafting a policy brief analyzing COVID-19’s impact on immigrants in the Bay Area. Her immigration research is grounded in her experience working at various immigration advocacy organizations including Catholic Charities of San Francisco where she assisted clients in deportation proceedings to apply for asylum and at Freedom for Immigrants where she supported immigrants in detention....
Andrew Chavez worked as a Communication and Outreach Fellow at BIMI in the Summer and Fall of 2020. He is a 4th year studying Political Economy and minoring in both Public Policy & Education. As the son of two working-class immigrants, he has experienced the effects of immigration policy first hand in his family. As a result, he wants to try his best in helping the immigrant community and their families in the Bay Area in any way he can.
