Lecturer, Visiting Scholar, and Working Group Director
Carrie Rosenbaum is an experienced immigration law attorney, teacher and scholar. Her scholarship focuses on the constitutionality of immigration laws including equality principles and rule of law, the role of settler colonialism in shaping contemporary expressions of immigration law, and racial bias in crimmigration enforcement.
Her current affiliations include the Center for the Study of Law and Society and the Berkeley Law Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law. She directs the Immigrant Justice & Climate Refugees Working Group.
Jasmijn Slootjes is an Associate Director with MPI Europe, primarily working on immigrant integration. Her research areas include migrant health, labor market integration, migrants’ access to services, integration policies, receiving-society responses to migration, and the use of innovative research methods to study migration.
Before joining MPI Europe, Dr. Slootjes was Executive Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. In this role, she worked on geospatial inequality in migrants’ access to health, legal, and...
Research Fellow & Head of Office, German Historical Institute West
Andrea Westermann earned her PhD in history from Bielefeld University for her dissertation Plastik und politische Kultur in Westdeutschland. She is a research fellow of GHI Washington DC and head of the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI in Berkeley. She specializes in the history of earth sciences, environmental history, environmental migration, and the history of material culture. She is H-Soz-Kult editor for history of knowledge. Her latest article “A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding up and down Temporal Scales with Plastic” will soon appear in the edited volume Power and Time...
