Antonia Mardones Marshall is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, and Master’s degrees in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University and in Sociology from UC Berkeley. Her research interests center on the intersection between international migration, racial and ethnic constructions, popular culture, and national identities, primarily focused in the Latin American context. Her most recent publication is titled “Who is Afro-Chilean?...
Tauhid Bin Kashem is a political scientist specializing in forced migration, global governance, and institutional change. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar. His research examines the ‘non-signatory’ puzzle—why states that have not signed the United Nations Refugee Convention host a substantial share of the world’s refugees. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, Tauhid analyzes how states in the Global South strategically engage with...
University of British Columbia Department of Political Science Professor
I study the political and civic incorporation of immigrants into Western liberal democracies and the consequences of migrants’ presence for politics and receiving countries’ sense of national belonging. How do migrants gain voice in the political systems where they live?
One stream of research on this question investigates the acquisition of formal citizenship, as well as the experiential and conceptual contours of citizenship as membership. Other research examines the opportunities and limits of community-based organizations for advancing political voice and providing immigrant...
Harvard University Bae Family Professor of Government
Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University. Lee has researched and written extensively on racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and political behavior, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. His current projects include a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book on the centrality of race in American politics (with Zoltan Hajnal and Vincent Hutchings); a six-country study of public opinion on banks and banking (with Pepper Culpepper); research into anti-Asian American sentiments and the racial formation of Asian...
Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law
Professor Chacon's research focuses on U.S. immigration law and policy, with a particular emphasis on issues that arise at the intersection of criminal and immigration law and law enforcement. Their work combines doctrinal analysis, empirical research, and critical theory to explain how immigration law and policy engender violence and (re)produce racial hierarchies, and to explore alternative possibilities.
Recent publications:
Immigration Law and Social Justice with Kevin R. Johnson and Bill Ong Hing (Aspen Press Casebook 2018) (Second Edition September 2021)
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...
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...
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...
