I am a socio-legal scholar of U.S. immigration law and policy, law and social movements, and the legal profession. I study how legal actors understand their direct legal services work with asylum seekers and how legal ethics shapes lawyering in legally liminal spaces like the U.S.-Mexico border and inside detention centers. I am also interested in how newly arriving asylum seekers understand and draw upon law, whether U.S. law, the laws of their country of origin, or the laws of counties through which they have traversed, in asserting rights against the state. Another strand of my...
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....
Dewi Zarni graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2021, where she majored in American Studies with a concentration in Race, Migration, and the Carceral State. Dewi was exposed to the complexities of the immigration process and its impact on families through her father's experience as an asylee. She developed her understanding of the legal system and the factors behind migration while volunteering at the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and interning for a local immigration attorney, where she interviewed Spanish-speaking clients about their experiences and interpreted for attorneys. During her...
Mr. Tenorio's research interests broadly include: children/youth, social policy, immigration, and economic sociology. Currently, Mr. Tenorio is working on a study of unaccompanied
Research interests: Migrant minors from Central America in the United States.
World Bank Africa Fellow/ Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group
When I was a teenager, I remember how devastated I became when I saw a homeless Chadian family with little children, coming from the far north part of the country and begging for a shelter in a cold morning in Yaounde, Cameroon. My soul became very sorrowful and I started crying incessantly, not only because I was unable to undertake any effective action to help but mostly given that our 100 sq. meter house already full of 9 people was too small to accommodate another family. The GARE family was only one out of thousands who were forcibly displaced, fleeing the first and second Chadian...
PhD/JD, University of California, Berkeley and Yale University
Currently, Sati is finishing his PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy after receiving his JD from Yale Law School, where he was the Symposium Editor for the Yale Journal for Law and the Humanities. Sati’s dissertation project, titled A Punishment of the Severest Kind: Deportations, Rights, and the Rise of a New Criminal Law, examines the intersection of criminal law and immigration law through a philosophical lens. He is a 2019 recipient of the Thomas I. Yamashita FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE Prize, an award given to a scholar-activist in California whose work bridges the gap between the...
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...
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.
Brisa Rodriguez is a graduated student from UC Berkeley, majoring in both Psychology and Legal Studies. From a young age, she witnessed the barriers her two immigrant parents faced due to the lack of resources and advocacy. Brisa Rodriguez is passionate about learning the multifaceted aspects of immigrant populations and connecting underrepresented people to resources. She has volunteered at Oasis Legal Services, aiding in the immigration process. Additionally, she has also served as a JusticeCorps member for the Alameda Superior Courts, providing assistance to self-represented litigants...
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!
