Professor of International and Multicultural Education
Dr. Monisha Bajaj is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. She is the editor and author of eight books and numerous articles on issues of peace, human rights, migration, and education, and is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Human Rights Education. Dr. Bajaj has developed curriculum and teacher training materials—particularly related to human rights, racial justice, ethnic studies, and sustainability—for non-profit and national advocacy organizations as well as inter-governmental organizations, such as UNICEF and...
Professor and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair
Ming Hsu Chen is a Professor of Law and Faculty-Director of the Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality Program. She teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legislation and Administrative Regulation, Citizenship, and Immigration. Professor Chen brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of race, immigration, and the administrative state. Her scholarship is published in leading law reviews and social science journals. She is author of ...
Assistant Professor of Law, Politics & Society at Drake University
My research lies at the intersection of law and narrative with topical emphases on immigration and climate change. While my approach is broadly rooted in the law and society tradition, it also benefits from methodological and theoretical contributions from the social sciences, in particular sociology, history, and migration studies. My scholarship consists of two main strands: (1) what I refer to as law’s “possibilities,” where I consider the normative implications of law-making in the face of the climate crisis and its attendant social, political and economic changes; and (2) the...
Assistant Professor of Economics at at North Carolina State University
Alejandro Gutierrez-Li is an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. His research lies in the areas of labor economics and applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on economics of immigration and entrepreneurship. His recent 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. In addition, he is in charge of a new research and outreach program related to...
Ph.D. Student in Latin American History at Complutense University of Madrid
Zetong Xiao is a Ph.D. student in Latin American History at the Complutense University of Madrid. His research project focuses on Chinese immigration to Central America, transnationalism and cultural citizenship. He is currently working on the history of Chinese in Costa Rica between 1900-2010, with an emphasis on the transformation of transnational connections and the construction of migrant networks. To introduce an interdisciplinary perspective, he tries to examine the identity construction and social integration of the Costa Rican Chinese by using ethnographic methods. He...
Erica Cho graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in DataScience and Applied Mathematics and Modeling. As an Undergraduate research assistant at the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Erica Cho has helped creating the BIMI newsletter in 2018-2019 and helped collecting data on immigrant-serving health clinics and legal aid organizations in the Bay Area as part of the Mapping Spatial Inequality Project.
Dr. Esther Yoona Cho is a former Policy and Communications Fellow at BIMI, former member of the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop, and completed her PhD dissertation in the Sociology Department. Dr. Cho is currently a Research Programs Director at Stanford University.
Dr. Esther Cho's research agenda focuses on how intersectional stigmatization affects the lived experiences and identities of those in immigrant and minority communities. Her work investigates the intersections of race and legality among undocumented immigrants of East Asian origin, asking: How do race and...
Arabi Hassan has an undergraduate degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley and during her time at UC Berkeley worked as a researcher at the Human Rights Investigations Lab. Her experience as an immigrant has taught her the importance of developing effective policies and programs that will ensure immigrant communities have the resources they need to thrive. Arabi Hassan was a Collegium Fellow in the 2018-2019 Collegium Fellowship at BIMI.
Yasmine El-Hage completed an undergraduate degree in Public Health at UC Berkeley and is currently working in the Migration and Displacement department of UNICEF in Geneva, Switzerland. Yasmine El-Hage previously worked in the Migration and Health Unit in Norway on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors and as a case worker at the Resettlement and Health Department of the International Rescue Committee. Themes that particularly interest Yasmine are maternal, child, and reproductive health; cultural identity and diaspora; and medical ethnobotany. At BIMI, Yasmine worked as a research...
