Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation Professor at the School of Social Welfare
How can we make social services more effective for immigrant families? What are the interrelationships between the immigrant community, the organization, the agency staff, and the users, and how will these relationships help improve the ways in which social services can be provided? Julian Chow’s research examines why immigrant families struggle to access readily available services, aiming to identify ways to transform social and health services for the underserved and improve service delivery for immigrant populations and communities.
How does religion shape the process of becoming American? How is immigration changing the American religious landscape? Carolyn Chen's research examines the relationship between religion, race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States
David Broockman is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Broockman's research considers how voters and politicians decide, generally using field experiments and other approaches that allow for rigorous causal inferences to be drawn. Broockman’s published academic work spans the topics of public opinion, voter behavior, and research methodology.
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Joshua Blumenstock is an Associate Professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information, the Director of the Data-Intensive Development Lab, and the faculty co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and empirical economics, and focuses on using novel data and methods to better understand the causes and consequences of global poverty. Joshua has a Ph.D. in Information Science and a M.A. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley, and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Wesleyan University. He is a...
Chancellor’s Professor, Graduate School of Education
Professor García Bedolla’s research focuses on immigrant political and educational integration in the United States. Working with community based organizations and other stakeholders, she has developed a set of best practices for enhancing civic engagement and educational equity for immigrant communities in California and beyond.
Which educational practices and policies promote immigrant children’s academic success? Baquedano-López’s ethnographic research addresses hemispheric migration and the politics of return migration with a focus on indigenous Maya students in California public schools whose families come from Yucatan, Mexico. Another project examines simultaneous processes of urban integration and social exclusion in early education centers in Aubervilliers in Paris, France.
Kirk Bansak specializes in research on political methodology, political economy, and refugee resettlement and asylum policy. He has studied public and elite attitudes toward refugees and asylum seekers, and developed methods for helping refugees and asylum seekers integrate into their host countries.
A longstanding expert on feminist jurisprudence, Professor Abrams is currently doing research on immigrant justice mobilization. Drawing on ethnographic research in Arizona, Abrams is interested in the use of emotion, identity and activism to mobilize against state and federal immigration law and their stigmatizing consequences.
Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor in Sociology
How can public interest law organizations provide access to justice to underrepresented communities, including immigrants? Catherine Albiston’s research examines the relationship between law, social movements and social change. She is currently conducting a study of more than 200 public interest law firms that examines how funding sources and other environmental factors affect their strategy, structure, and mission.
I'm an assistant professor at Berkeley Law. I do empirical research on immigration enforcement, and I teach civil procedure and immigration law. From 2016 to 2019, I worked as an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York.
