Below are the Visiting Scholars & Visiting Graduate Students from previous years.
Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Germany
Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany
Research Focus: Leibniz Association-funded project, ‘Rural Well-Being in Transition: Multidimensional Drivers and Effects on Immobility’ (RuWell)
Akihiro Koido, Japan
Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (United States)
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Rica Agnes Castaneda, Canada
PhD Candidate, Policy Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Focus: She is working on the Decentering Migration Knowledge (DemiKnow) project under the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, examining international student experiences in Canada and the dynamic role of families in their migration decision-making process..
Tatyana Castillo-Ramos, United States
PhD Candidate, Religious Studies, Yale University
Research Focus: Her current dissertation project is situated on the San Diego-Tijuana border and observes how religion is (per)formed at the border by focusing on Friendship Park, a binational recreational ground located within the larger Border Fields State Park and divided by the US-Mexico border wall.
Gülten Gizem Fesli, Germany
PhD Candidate, Bayreuth University, Germany
Research Focus: Her dissertation, Strategies for Trade Union Organizing of Transnational Care Workers in Germany and the U.S.A., takes a migrant-centered approach to examine strategies employed by trade unions in organizing transnational domestic care workers in Germany and the U.S.A., spanning from the late 20th century to the present.
Elise Franklin, Australia
PhD Candidate, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Focus: Her thesis is titled “The Interpretation of ‘Particular Social Group’ in Refugee Law: An Avenue for Street Children to be Recognised as Refugees?” From a children’s rights perspective, her research considers the experiences of street children in Central America with the aim of understanding whether this group of children should be considered a particular social group in refugee law, particularly in the US.
Aura Gonzalez, United States
PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Research Focus: Her dissertation focuses on how perceptions of prospective climate and environmental risk influence individuals’ attitudes towards housing and migration.
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa Akimoto, United States
Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan
Research Focus: Japanese Brasilian children in Japan
Michael Gordon, Canada
Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Focus: Resisting Carceral Borderscapes and the Spatial Politics of Solidarity
Melissa Kelly, Canada
Project Director and Principal Investigator, Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Focus: comparative approach to understanding how migrants and refugees experience settlement, integration and belonging in different spatial contexts. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Canadian Geographer, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Population Space and Place, and Migration Letters.
Chiara Maritato, Italy
Assistant Professor, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin
Research Focus: The controversial notion of "transit" migration and border management, transnational religious actors and diaspora communities, religion and gender issues in contemporary Turkey.
Aziz Rahman, Canada
Research Fellow at CERC (Canada Excellence Research Chair), Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada)
Research Focus: Migration and Integration
Daniel Thym, Germany
Professor, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Research Focus: Immigration, citizenship, asylum, and constitutional affairs.
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (United States)
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Tatyana Castillo-Ramos, United States
PhD Candidate, Religious Studies, Yale University
Research Focus: Her current dissertation project is situated on the San Diego-Tijuana border and observes how religion is (per)formed at the border by focusing on Friendship Park, a binational recreational ground located within the larger Border Fields State Park and divided by the US-Mexico border wall.
Emma Empociello, France
PhD Candidate, Political Science, Sciences Po Bordeaux
Research Focus: Her Fulbright research project aims to refine her knowledge of international donations to borderlands and to better understand the international circulation of knowledge between different border regimes.
Gülten Gizem Fesli, Germany
PhD Candidate, Bayreuth University, Germany
Research Focus: Her dissertation, Strategies for Trade Union Organizing of Transnational Care Workers in Germany and the U.S.A., takes a migrant-centered approach to examine strategies employed by trade unions in organizing transnational domestic care workers in Germany and the U.S.A., spanning from the late 20th century to the present.
Elise Franklin, Australia
PhD Candidate, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Focus: Her thesis is titled “The Interpretation of ‘Particular Social Group’ in Refugee Law: An Avenue for Street Children to be Recognised as Refugees?” From a children’s rights perspective, her research considers the experiences of street children in Central America with the aim of understanding whether this group of children should be considered a particular social group in refugee law, particularly in the US.
Hirotaka Fujibayashi, Switzerland
PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland
Research Focus: His ongoing dissertation project explores the cross-country variation of refugee and asylum policies. Using mixed methods and an original dataset, his dissertation offers a thorough account of why some states restrict the entry and post-entry rights of refugees and asylum-seekers while others do not.
Yareli Castro Sevilla, United States
PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Research Focus: Her dissertation titled “Imaginarios de Sinidad: Culture, Identity and Memory of Chinese Mexicans in Contemporary México” is the first comprehensive study of contemporary Chinese Mexican communities in México.
Gerlinde Theunissen, Germany
PhD Candidate, the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University Konstanz, Germany
Research Focus: In her doctoral dissertation, she combines satellite imagery and various types of spatial data with survey and administrative data to investigate how economic disparities within local environments impact citizens' attitudes and actions.
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa Akimoto, United States
Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan
Research Focus: Japanese Brasilian children in Japan
Michael Gordon, Canada
Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Focus: Resisting Carceral Borderscapes and the Spatial Politics of Solidarity
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico” Dr. Kopinak is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Gallya Lahav, United States
Associate Professor, Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research Focus: "Immigration, Security and the Liberal State: the Politics of Immigration Regulation in Europe and the United States”
Martin Rozumek, Czech Republic
Executive Director of the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU), Prague, Czech Republic
Research Focus: Responses to Climate Refugee Situations in national, regional and global context
Eva Sotomayor, Spain
Professor, University of Jaén
Research Focus: Continue her research on emotional (pride management, fear, shame, compassion, etc.) and generic (belonging, time management, critical reasoning, etc.) competencies of Mexican immigrants in the U.S., paying special attention to the most disadvantaged and stigmatized among them, paying special attention to the most disadvantaged and stigmatized. She would also like to compare the migratory flows entering through southern Spain with those coming from México. It would be interesting to transfer and share the use of experimental methodology for the analysis of those emotions and phenomena.
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (United States)
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Emma Empociello, France
PhD Candidate, Political Science, Sciences Po Bordeaux
Research Focus: Her Fulbright research project aims to refine her knowledge of international donations to borderlands and to better understand the international circulation of knowledge between different border regimes.
Hirotaka Fujibayashi, Switzerland
PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland
Research Focus: His ongoing dissertation project explores the cross-country variation of refugee and asylum policies. Using mixed methods and an original dataset, his dissertation offers a thorough account of why some states restrict the entry and post-entry rights of refugees and asylum-seekers while others do not.
Amanda Pinheiro, United States
PhD Candidate, Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Research Focus: Her multi-country ethnographic research examines how humanitarian migration politics and policies intersected with transnational anti-Haitian sentiment has forced the displacement of Haitians through the Americas in the last decade.
Yareli Castro Sevilla, United States
PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Research Focus: Her dissertation titled “Imaginarios de Sinidad: Culture, Identity and Memory of Chinese Mexicans in Contemporary México” is the first comprehensive study of contemporary Chinese Mexican communities in México.
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa Akimoto, United States
Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan
Research Focus: Japanese Brasilian children in Japan
Anita Casavantes Bradford, United States
Associate professor, UC Irvine
Research Focus: Transnational and Comparative Latina/o History; US in the World; Immigration, Race and Ethnicity; Critical Refugee Studies; Childhood, Gender and Family; Religion and Politics
Craig Smith, Canada
Senior Research Associate, Ryerson University
Research Focus: The international politics of irregular migration, migration governance, and refugee integration, and combines qualitative field research with national and global migration data
Dagmar Soennecken, Canada
Associate Professor, York University
Research Focus: Primarily be working on her contribution to the VULNER project, a three-year, international research project funded by the Canadian Social Science and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the FRQSC, and the EU’s Horizon 2020 program. The aim of the VULNER project is to investigate what it means to be vulnerable in international migration law and policy
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Sara Bellezza, Germany
PhD Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin
Research Focus: Forms of (legal) activism against the criminalization of migration. A case study of agency and resistance around deportation practices between the US and Guatemala
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa Akimoto, United States
Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan
Research Focus: Japanese Brasilian children in Japan
Anita Casavantes Bradford, United States
Associate professor, UC Irvine
Research Focus: Transnational and Comparative Latina/o History; US in the World; Immigration, Race and Ethnicity; Critical Refugee Studies; Childhood, Gender and Family; Religion and Politics
Rufat Efendiyev, Azerbaijan
Associate Professor, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Research Focus: Migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the United States
Ihor Markov, Ukraine
Senior Researcher, Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Research Focus: Currently working on a book project, which will be based primarily on analyses of field research on various transnational migration flows related to Ukraine.
Everard Meade, United States
Professor of Practice and Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies.
Research Focus: Currently finishing a book project on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the broader social, cultural, and political projects it has come to represent over the last 25 years. The book explores the use of “the border” as a theory of history and how that theory interfaces with the actual life histories of charismatic individuals whose lives transcend the border.
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Leydy Diossa-Jimenez, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: Her interests include international migration, political sociology and sociology of law. She is particularly interested in the gap between approval, implementation, and use of emigrant political rights in relation to the strategies by sending states to control the political participation of their extraterritorial citizens.
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa Akimoto, United States
Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan
Research Focus: Japanese Brasilian children in Japan
Anita Casavantes Bradford, United States
Associate professor, UC Irvine
Research Focus: Transnational and Comparative Latina/o History; US in the World; Immigration, Race and Ethnicity; Critical Refugee Studies; Childhood, Gender and Family; Religion and Politics
Rufat Efendiyev, Azerbaijan
Associate Professor, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Research Focus: Migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the United States
S. Deborah Kang, United States
Associate Professor, California State University of San Marcos
Research Focus: The Legal Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Oxford University Press, under contract) offers one of the first comprehensive accounts of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and its operations on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twentieth century.
Akihiro Koido, Japan
Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico” Dr. Kopinak is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Ihor Markov, Ukraine
Senior Researcher, Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Research Focus: Currently working on a book project, which will be based primarily on analyses of field research on various transnational migration flows related to Ukraine.
Everard Meade, United States
Professor of Practice and Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies.
Research Focus: Currently finishing a book project on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the broader social, cultural, and political projects it has come to represent over the last 25 years. The book explores the use of “the border” as a theory of history and how that theory interfaces with the actual life histories of charismatic individuals whose lives transcend the border.
Belal Hamed Taher Shneikat, North Cypress
Assistant Professor, University of Kyrenia
Research Focus: Does entrepreneurship help refugees to integrate?. Evidence from California.
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Leydy Diossa-Jimenez, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: Her interests include international migration, political sociology and sociology of law. She is particularly interested in the gap between approval, implementation, and use of emigrant political rights in relation to the strategies by sending states to control the political participation of their extraterritorial citizens.
Adi Hercowitz-Amir, Israel
Israel Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Focus: Dr. Hercowitz-Amir's research interests include international migration, majority group attitudes towards immigrants and asylum public policy.
May Al-Dabbagh, United States
Assistant Professor, Social Research and Public Policy, New York University - Dubai
Research Focus: Dr. Al-Dabbagh's research is located at the intersection of gender, class, citizenship, migration, and global work.
Shira Goldenberg, Canada
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
Research Focus: Dr. Goldenberg’s research aims to improve sexual health and access to healthcare for marginalized migrant populations, particularly migrant women involved in sex work, refugee and internally displaced women, and women living with HIV in Canada, Latin America, and other global settings.
S. Deborah Kang, United States
Associate Professor, California State University of San Marcos
Research Focus: The Legal Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Oxford University Press, under contract) offers one of the first comprehensive accounts of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and its operations on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twentieth century.
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico” Dr. Kopinak is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Raphi Rechitsky, United States
Assistant Professor, National University, San Diego
Research Focus: Trapped in Transit: "Forced Migration and the Making of Refuge at Europe’s Eastern Boundary in Ukraine.” Dr. Rechitsky is completing a book project on forced migration to, through, and within Ukraine.
Belal Hamed Taher Shneikat, North Cypress
Assistant Professor, University of Kyrenia
Research Focus: Does entrepreneurship help refugees to integrate?. Evidence from California.
Joseph Wiltberger, United States
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
Research Focus: The social practices, collective organizing, and politics linked to international migration, and their relationships to economic and social marginalization, various forms of violence, and cultural transformations in places of migrant origin, destination, and in-between.
Margaret Fee, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: Using qualitative methods, her research examines the multiple stakeholders in the U.S. refugee resettlement process, including refugees, resettlement agencies, and communities of resettlement.
Erin Hoekstra, United States
PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
Research Focus: Bodies of Resistance: Immigrant Health Care and the Movement for Migrant Health Justice after the Affordable Care Act.
Adi Hercowitz-Amir, Israel
Israel Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Focus: Dr. Hercowitz-Amir's research interests include international migration, majority group attitudes towards immigrants and asylum public policy.
Shira Goldenberg, Canada
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Research Scientist, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
Research Focus: Dr. Goldenberg’s research aims to improve sexual health and access to healthcare for marginalized migrant populations, particularly migrant women involved in sex work, refugee and internally displaced women, and women living with HIV in Canada, Latin America, and other global settings.
S. Deborah Kang, United States
Associate Professor, California State University of San Marcos
Research Focus: The Legal Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Oxford University Press, under contract) offers one of the first comprehensive accounts of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and its operations on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twentieth century.
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico” Dr. Kopinak is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Everard Meade, United States
Director, Trans Border Institute, University of San Diego
Research Focus: “The Banality of Deterrence: Race, Politics, and the Fate of Mexican Asylum Seekers in the United States.”
Swanie Potot, France
Sociologist researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working at the Migration and Society Research Unit (URMIS), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Research Focus: Her research investigates migrations processes to and within Europe, transnationalism, ethnic job markets, migration impact on societies of origin, interethnic relations, discrimination, and racism.
Raphi Rechitsky, United States
Assistant Professor, National University, San Diego
Research Focus: Trapped in Transit: "Forced Migration and the Making of Refuge at Europe’s Eastern Boundary in Ukraine.” Dr. Rechitsky is completing a book project on forced migration to, through, and within Ukraine.
Katrin Sontag, Switzerland
Cultural anthropologist and postdoc at the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR – on the move in Switzerland, based at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Basel
Research Focus: Comparative Case Study on the Situation of Refugees at Universities in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Akihiro Koido, Japan
Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Research Focus: “Immigration Enforcement and Social Movement After September 11th”
Margaret Fee, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: Using qualitative methods, her research examines the multiple stakeholders in the U.S. refugee resettlement process, including refugees, resettlement agencies, and communities of resettlement.
Erin Hoekstra, United States
PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
Research Focus: Bodies of Resistance: Immigrant Health Care and the Movement for Migrant Health Justice after the Affordable Care Act.
Clarissa do Nascimento Tabosa, Brazil/Slovakia
PhD Candidate, the Institute of European Studies and International Relations at Comenius University in Bratislava
Research Focus: Formation and diffusion of immigration policies in countries immersed in institutionally dense environments.
Katrina Burgess, United States
Associate Professor, Tufts University
Research Focus: Her current project addresses the conditions under which emigrants engage in politics back home and the implications for democratic governance in the Global South.
Geraldine Chatelard, France
Research Associate, Institut Francais du Proche-Orient
Research Focus: Chatelard’s newest work is in Algeria as part of a large European Commission- funded project focusing on heritage. As one of the two key experts in the project, she will be designing and delivering a series of training workshops on the inventory methodologies for intangible cultural heritage (ICH).
Maria Cook, United States
Professor, Cornell University
Research Focus: Cook’s latest research looks at global migration movements and the role of migrant rights advocacy groups in shaping public debates over unauthorized migration. Her research draws on cases located in three world regions: the U.S.-Mexico border, southern Spain, and Australia, where the focus is on asylum seeker rights groups.
Armen Hakhverdian, The Netherlands
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Research Focus: His most recent research project “We the People: How Public Opinion towards Multiculturalism Shapes Political Outcomes” offers an examination of policy responsiveness to citizen preferences on immigration issues.
S. Deborah Kang, United States
Associate Professor, California State University, San Marcos
Research Focus: The relationship between law and society along the nation’s northern and southern borders. Her research is supported by research grants from the Huntington Library and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico”. Kathy is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Everard Meade, United States
Director, Trans Border Insittute, University of San Diego
Research Focus: “The Banality of Deterrence: Race, Politics, and the Fate of Mexican Asylum Seekers in the United States”
Raphi Rechitsky, United States
Assistant Professor, National University, San Diego
Research Focus: Migration processes and contentious politics in Europe and the former Soviet region in global and comparative perspectives.
Donggen Rui, China
Associate Professor, Pukyong National University
Research Focus: “The Historical Pattern of Migration: Korean Chinese and Mexican Migration to the US”
Mahama Tawat, Cameroon
Assistant Professor, Higher School of Economics in Moscow
Research Focus: Comparative migration policy notably Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
Pavel Consuegra, Mexico
PhD Candidate, University of Baja California (UABC)
Research Focus: “Integration of Refugees in East County San Diego during 2007-2012: Opportunities and Obstacles”.
Caterina Guisa, France
PhD Candidate, University of Paris 13
Research Focus: “The link between revolution and migration in the context of the Arab Uprisings”.
Erin Hoekstra, United States
PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
Research Focus: “Bodies of Resistance: Immigrant Health Care and the Movement for Migrant Health Justice after the Affordable Care Act”.
Murat Ertugrul Pala, Turkey
Graduate Student Researcher, Hacettepe University
Research Focus: His research examines differing public attitudes of Turkish people towards Syrian refugees.
Stefanie Visel, Germany
PhD Candidate, Hildesheim University
Research Focus: Her research interests involve transnational care migration, migration and labor markets, transnational ageing and local migration policies. Her PhD project examines occupational credentialing procedures for foreign trained nurses and health care workers in Germany.
Yuching Cheng, Taiwan
PhD Candidate, University at Albany, SUNY
Research Focus: “The Intersection of cultural sociology, immigration and race/ethnicity, and nationalism. Her dissertation focuses on the effects of immigration on social inequality”.
Maria Cook, United States
Professor, Cornell University
Research Focus: Global migration movements and the role of migrant rights advocacy groups in shaping public debates over unauthorized migration. Maria’s research draws on cases located in three world regions: the U.S.-Mexico border, southern Spain, and Australia, where the focus is on asylum seeker rights groups.
Geraldine Chatelard, France
Associate Researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan
Research Focus: Chatelard's newest work is in Algeria as part of a large European Commission-funded project focusing on heritage. As one of the two key experts in the project, she will be designing and delivering a series of training workshops on the inventory methodologies for intangible cultural heritage (ICH).
S Deborah Kang, United States
Associate Professor, California State University of San Marcos
Research focus: The Legal Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Oxford University Press, under contract) offers one of the first comprehensive accounts of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and its operations on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twentieth century.
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico” Kathy is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Raphi Rechitsky, United States
Assistant Professor, National University, San Diego
Research Focus: Trapped in Transit: "Forced Migration and the Making of Refuge at Europe’s Eastern Boundary in Ukraine” Professor Rechitsky is completing a book project on forced migration to, through, and within Ukraine.
Donggen Rui, China
Associate Professor, Pukyong National University
Research Focus: The Historical Pattern of Migration: Korean Chinese and Mexican Migration to the US.
Mahama Tawat, Cameroon
Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow & Research Affiliate, Malmö University, Sweden
Research Focus: Comparative migration policy, notably Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Investigating the determinants of this policy divergence and the factors that permeated policy formulation and decision-making under crisis and uncertainty while examining the implications of these decisions in two Eastern EU countries, Hungary and Poland.
Yuching Chen, Taiwan
PhD Candidate, University at Albany, SUNY
Research Focus: The Intersection of cultural sociology, immigration and race/ethnicity, and nationalism. Her dissertation focuses on the effects of immigration on social inequality.
Allan Colbern, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Riverside
Research Focus: “From American Slavery to Immigration: Developments in Regulating Borders, Movement, and Access to Resources”.
Pavel Consuegra, Mexico
PhD Candidate, Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Tijuana, Mexico
Research Focus: Integration of Refugees in San Diego East County during 2007-2012: Opportunities and Obstacles. Forced displacement; refugees’ social and economic integration; resettlement and placement; Cuba-US relations.
Murat E. Pala, Turkey
PhD Candidate, Hacettepe University, Ankara, TURKEY
Research Focus: Examine differing public attitudes of Turkish people towards Syrian refugees. By identifying the main dynamics in public attitudes toward the rapidly growing refugee population, Pala hopes his research will make a contribution to the efforts seeking stable solutions that can enable a healthy integration to the host-population and social structure.
Huub Dijstelbloem, Netherlands
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Research Focus: Border surveillance and counter-surveillance.
Kathy Kopinak, Canada
Professor Emerita, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico” Kathy is currently engaged with a team of other Canadian, U.S., and Spanish researchers in a comparison of the impact of working in maquiladora export industries on migration from Mexico to the U.S. and from Morocco to Spain.
Donggen Rui, China
Associate Professor, Pukyong National University
Research Focus: “The Historical Pattern of Migration: Korean Chinese and Mexican Migration to the US”
Tobias Schwarz, Germany
Research Fellow, University of Cologne
Research Focus: Politics of identity and belonging in Latin America and Europe; migration control, citizenship, nationality and naturalizations in the Global South; racism; qualitative research methods.
Abdeslam Marfouk, Belgium
Lecturer, University of Liege, Belgium
Research Focus: Female Migration, Attitudes toward Immigration & the Impact of Migration on Origin Countries
Yuching Cheng, Taiwan
PhD Candidate, University at Albany, SUNY
Research Focus: The Intersection of cultural sociology, immigration and race/ethnicity, and nationalism. Her dissertation focuses on the effects of immigration on social inequality.
Allan Colbern, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Riverside
Research Focus: “From American Slavery to Immigration: Developments in Regulating Borders, Movement, and Access to Resources”.
Kathryn (Kathy) Kopinak, Canada
Professor, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico”
Rocio Rosales, United States
Post –Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: “Local Context of Reception and Immigrant Adaptation Among Los Angeles Fruit Vendors”
Barbara Buckinx, United States
Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
Research Focus: "Reducing Domination in Global Politics"
Mary Lopez, United States
Associate Professor, Occidental College
Research Focus: “Mexican Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Industry Choice, Language Proficiency, and Entrepreneurial Success” and “Skill Mismatch Among Highly Skilled Immigrant Women in the U.S.”
Abdeslam Marfouk, Belgium
Lecturer, University of Liege
Research Focus: Female Migration, Attitudes toward Immigration & the Impact of Migration on Origin Countries
Raquel Martinez Chicon, Spain
Professor, University of Granada
Research Focus: “Intercultural Competencies and Diversity Management in the Public Administrations of Andalucia (Spain) and California (United States): A Comparative Analysis of Training Procedures, Trends and their Impact”
Veronica Hoyo, Mexico
Research Focus: Outsider political parties in comparative perspective: issue dimensions, electoral strategies and systemic impact.
Sae Jae Lee, Korea
Associate Professor, Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Research Focus: Characteristics of Asian Immigrant Technologists
Cetta Mainwaring, United Kingdom
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Research Focus: “Controlling Mobility: The Rise of Visa Regimes in the UK and the US”
Cheun Hoe Yow, Korea
Assistant Professor and Fulbright Scholar, Nanyang Technological University
Research Focus: “Localization, Transnationalism, Multiculturalism: A Comparative Study of New Chinese Migrants in Singapore and the United States”
Enrico Marcelli, United States
Associate Professor, San Diego State University
Research Focus: Estimating the number, effects and integration of legal and undocumented immigrants in the USA; and on questions regarding the social and geographic sources of health
Joaquín Arango, Spain
Complutense University of Madrid and Director, Center for the Study of Migration and Citizenship, Ortega y Gasset Research Institute
Research Focus: “The U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Regime in Comparative Perspective”
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa, Japan
Associate Professor, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Research Focus: “Education and Ethnic Identity of Second-Generation Japanese-Brazilians in Japan”
Milosz Miszczynski, Poland
PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University
Research Focus: “Mobility of Foreign Direct Investment in the NAFTA Zone and Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Study of Local Receptions.”
Kathryn (Kathy) Kopinak, Canada
Professor, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “Industrial Relocation and Migration: the Role of the Export Industries in Countries of Origin: Morocco and Mexico”
Rocio Rosales, United States
Post –Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: “Local Context of Reception and Immigrant Adaptation Among Los Angeles Fruit Vendors”
Chris Haynes, United States
PhD candidate, University of California, Riverside
Research Focus: “Empathy and Immigration Policy Preferences: The Interactive Pathway for Permissive Change”
Joaquín Arango, Spain
Complutense University of Madrid and Director, Center for the Study of Migration and Citizenship, Ortega y Gasset Research Institute
Research Focus: “The U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Regime in Comparative Perspective”
Viresh Bhawra, India
Humphrey Fellow, University of Minnesota
Research Focus: “Labour Trafficking through Illegal Migration and Human Smuggling”
Hyung Sung Choe, Korea
Assistant Professor, Silla University
Research Focus: “Korean American parenting and their children’s developmental outcomes”
Maria Lorena Cook, United States
Professor, Cornell University
Research Focus: “As Citizens Among Us: Global Migration and Migrant Advocacy”
Verónica Hoyo, Mexico
Research Focus: “Outsider political parties in comparative perspective: issue dimensions, electoral strategies and systemic impact”
Sae Jae Lee, Korea
Associate Professor, Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Research Focus: Characteristics of Asian Immigrant Technologists
Diego López De Lera, Spain
Associate Professor, University of Coruña
Research Focus: Return Migration from Spain
Cetta Mainwaring, United Kingdom
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Research Focus: “Controlling Mobility: The Rise of Visa Regimes in the UK and the US”
Raquel Martínez Chicón, Spain
Universidad de Granada
Research Focus: “The Provision of Services to Foreign Immigrant Population and the Management of Diversity by Public Administrations in Andalucia and California: A Comparative Analysis”
Cheun Hoe Yow, Singapore
Assistant Professor and Fulbright Scholar, Nanyang Technological University
Research Focus: “Localization, Transnationalism, Multiculturalism: A Comparative Study of New Chinese Migrants in Singapore and the United States”
Yanling Liu, China
PhD candidate, Jinan University
Research Focus: “Cultural Identity and Transnationalism”
Milosz Miszczynski, Poland
PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University
Research Focus: “Mobility of Foreign Direct Investment in the NAFTA Zone and Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Study of Local Receptions.”
Stevie Ruiz, United States
PhD candidate, University of California, San Diego
Research Focus: “The Color of Development: Race, Conformity and Land Conflict in Imperial County, 1900-1945”
Tina Zarpour, United States
PhD candidate, University of Maryland College Park
Research Focus: “Transnational political engagement of Iranians in the diaspora: investigating online and offline impacts of the 2009 presidential election and subsequent events”
Florencia Rivaud, Spain
PhD candidate, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset
Research Focus: “Memories from the landscape that dried out”
Kathryn Kopinak, Canada
Professor, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “The Complementary Relationship Between International Migration and Mexican Maquiladora Employment”
Ilker Atac, Austria
Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
Research Focus: “Austrian Migration Policies”
Hyung-Sung Choe, Korea
Assistant Professor, Silla University
Research Focus: “Korean American parenting and their children’s developmental outcomes”
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa, Japan
Associate Professor, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Research Focus: “Education and Ethnic Identity of Second-Generation Japanese-Brazilians in Japan”
Amparo González-Ferrer, Spain
Fellow, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Research Focus: “Roads to citizenship in Spain and the US: Exploring the connections between undocumented migration, family reunification and naturalization strategies among recent immigrants”
Akihiro Koido, Japan
Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Research Focus: “Immigration Enforcement and Social Movement After September 11th”
Spyros Themelis, United Kingdom
Lecturer in Education, Middlesex University
Research Focus: “Roma Education in Europe”
Cheun Hoe Yow, Singapore
Assistant Professor and Fulbright Scholar, Nanyang Technological University
Research Focus: “Localization, Transnationalism, Multiculturalism: A Comparative Study of New Chinese Migrants in Singapore and the United States”
Robbie Totten, United States
PhD Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus: “Security and United States Immigration Policy”
Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Belgium
PhD candidate, Catholic University of Louvain and National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED, France)
Research Focus: “Comparative analysis of Senegalese and Congolese migrants’ return and reintegration patterns in their home country”
Luisa Feline Freier, United Kingdom
PhD candidate, London School of Economics (LSE)
Research Focus: “The impact of immigration policy on new south-south migration: The case of contemporary African migration to Latin America”
Jesus Gonzalez, Mexico
PhD candidate, Autonomous University of Baja California
Research Focus: “Bicultural Identity of Naturalized U.S. citizens of Mexican Origin and Their Civic Participation”
Mayuri Ito, Japan
Masters student, Hitotsubashi University
Research Focus: “Analysis of how Somalis’ transnational networks have reconstructed, re-strengthened, or transformed after governmental intervention”
Amaha Kassa, United States
PhD candidate, Harvard University
Research Focus: “Making Citizens: The Politics of Foreign Nationality in British Prisons.”
Emma Kaufman, United Kingdom
PhD candidate and Clarendon Fellow, Oxford University
Research Focus: “Making Citizens: The Politics of Foreign Nationality in British Prisons.”
Kedar Kulkarni, United States
PhD candidate, University of California, San Diego
Research Focus: “Secular Gods and the Citizenry”
Yanling Liu, China
PhD candidate, Jinan University
Research Focus: “Cultural Identity and Transnationalism”
Arianna Martinez, United States
PhD candidate, Rutgers University
Research Focus: “The Politics of Latino Belonging – Law, Scale, and Identity in Municipal Anti-Immigrant Ordinances in the United States”
Milosz Miszczynski, Poland
PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University
Research Focus: “Cultural Impacts of foreign direct investment in selected local communities of Mexico, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania”
Florencia Rivaud, Spain
PhD candidate, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset
Research Focus: “Memories from the landscape that dried out”
Tina Zarpour, United States
PhD candidate, University of Maryland College Park
Research Focus: “Transnational political engagement of Iranians in the diaspora: investigating online and offline impacts of the 2009 presidential election and subsequent events”
Trinidad Vicente Torrado, Spain
PhD candidate, University of Deusto
Research Focus: “Female migration projects. Colombian, Ecuadorian and Moroccan women towards Spain”
Kathryn (Kathy) Kopinak, Canada
Professor, King’s University College, Western University
Research Focus: “The Complementary Relationship Between International Migration and Mexican Maquiladora Employment”
Alejandra Castaneda, Mexico
Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and Fulbright Scholar, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Focus: “Immigration Legislation, Human Rights and Citizenship.”
Eunice Akemi Ishikawa, Japan
Associate Professor, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Research Focus: “Education and Ethnic Identity of Second-Generation Japanese-Brazilians in Japan”
Alberto Martin- Pérez, Spain
Assistant Professor, University of Barcelona
Research Focus: “Immigrants’ Entitlements in Welfare Services: Different Treatment in Search of Equality”
Rolf Rønning, Norway
Professor, Lillehammer University College
Research Focus: “Norwegian-Swedish comparative study on “Social factors contributing to sickness absence”
Liv Johanne Solheim, Norway
Associate Professor, Lillehammer University College
Research Focus: “Inclusive working life in state enterprises in Norway”
Maria Cristina Blanco Fernandez de Valderrama, Spain
Director and Professor, Universidad del Pais Vasco Sarriena
Research Focus: “Implications of the migrations in the development processes of the origin countries. Comparative study between two migratory systems: Mexico – USA and Andean countries – Spain.” This project forms a part of a wider study, directed by C. Blanco and financed by the Spanish Department of Science and Innovation, titled “Social implications of the transnational migration: beyond remittances
James MacKenzie, Canada
Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge
Research Focus: Religion and Ethnicity in Maya Migration to San Diego County
Amada Armenta, United States
PhD Candidate, UC Los Angeles
Amaha Kassa, United States
PhD candidate, Harvard University
Research Focus: “Making Citizens: The Politics of Foreign Nationality in British Prisons.”
Emma Kaufman, United Kingdom
PhD candidate and Clarendon Fellow, Oxford University
Research Focus: “Making Citizens: The Politics of Foreign Nationality in British Prisons.”
Gilberto Lopez, United States
PhD Candidate, Southern Methodist University
Research Focus: “Comparative (bi-national) study of migration and health among Mixteco migrants.”
Marko Tocilovac, France
PhD Candidate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Research Focus: “The US-Mexico border political arena: an anthropological analysis of sovereignty, citizenship and the state in San Diego, California.”
Tina Zarpour, United States
PhD candidate, University of Maryland College Park
Research Focus: “Transnational political engagement of Iranians in the diaspora: investigating online and offline impacts of the 2009 presidential election and subsequent events”
Trinidad Vicente Torrado, Spain
PhD candidate, University of Deusto
Research Focus: “Female migration projects. Colombian, Ecuadorian and Moroccan women towards Spain”
Marisa Abrajano, United States
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Research Focus: “The impact of social context on immigration attitudes in the United States”
Clarissa Clo, United States
Assistant Professor & Director, SDSU
Research Focus: "Second Generation Migrant Literature and the Contradictions of Italian Immigration and Citizenship Laws".
Kathryn Kopinak, Canada
Professor, University of Western Ontario
Research Focus: “The Complementary Relationship Between International Migration and Mexican Maquiladora Employment”
Alexander Balch, United Kingdom
Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield
Research Focus: “The impact of ideas and expertise in policy change on labour migration: the case of the UK and Spain”
Maria Cristina Blanco Fernandez de Valderrama, Spain
Director and Professor, Universidad del Pais Vasco Sarriena
Research Focus: “Implications of the migrations in the development processes of the origin countries. Comparative study between two migratory systems: Mexico – USA and Andean countries – Spain.” This project forms a part of a wider study, directed by C. Blanco and financed by the Spanish Department of Science and Innovation, titled “Social implications of the transnational migration: beyond remittances
Michael Clemens, United States
Fellow at the Center for Global Development; Affiliated Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Concha Carrasco Carpio, Spain
(Joint appointment with CILAS)
Assistant Professor, Universidad de Alcala
Research Focus: “The labor market integration of Latin Americans in California and Spain: A comparative perspective”
David Felsen, Canada
Assistant Professor, Alliant International University
Research Focus: Currently completing a book about controversial issues in U.S. immigration history
Carmen Fernández-Casanueva, Mexico
Research Fellow, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Research Focus: “The role and contribution of Honduran migrants residing at the Soconusco region of Chiapas”
Sarah Horton, United States
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
Research Focus: US medical migration along the US-Mexico border.
James MacKenzie, Canada
Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge
Research Focus: Religion and Ethnicity in Maya Migration to San Diego County
Ángeles Solanes Corella, Spain
Lecturer, University of Valencia
Research Focus: “Immigration, integration and public policies: evaluation and guarantees of rights”
Rosie Tafoya-Estrada, United States
Professor, Boise State University
Research Focus: “Educational Trajectories of the Second and Third Generation Mexican-Origin Population”
Julián López Colas, Spain
Researcher, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
Research Focus: “Explaining Outcomes of Immigration Control Policies: A Comparative Study of Spain and the United States”
Maoxin Liang, China
Professor, Northeast Normal University
Research Focus: “Immigrants and Their Impact on the California Economy, 1980‐2000”
James Walsh, United States
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Barbara
Research Focus: Recent trajectory of immigration policy in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
Francisco Jose Cuberos, Spain
Ph.D. Candidate, Universidad de Sevilla
Research Focus: “Rules of associationism and formation of leadership among Latin American immigrants in Andalucia”
Alejandra Castaneda, Mexico
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
Research Focus: “Immigration Legislation, Human Rights and Citizenship.”
David Capretta, France
Ph.D. Candidate, Instituto de Estudios Migratorios, Madrid, Spain
Research Focus: “Selecting by national origins in the contemporaneous liberal democratic State: French and Spanish control policies in perspective”. Member of the ILSEG project (Center for Migration and development, Princeton University): “Adaptation process of the immigrant second generation in the Spanish context: new perspectives for the segmented assimilation theory”.
Jody Agius Vallejo, United States
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Research Focus: “Brown Picket Fences: Patterns of Giving Back, Ethnic Identity, and the Role of Ethnic Associations among the Mexican‐Origin Middle Class”
Everard Meade, United States
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Research Focus: History of modern Mexico, with an emphasis on capital punishment, human rights, journalism, and the relationship between Mexico, Central America, and the United States.
Kathryn Kopinak, Canada
Professor, University of Western Ontario
Research Focus: “A Transatlantic Comparison of the Impact of Gender and Export Processing Work Experience on International Labour Migration”
Irene Briones Martinez, Spain
Professor, Escuela de Derecho, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Research Focus: "Religious diversity and Immigration"
David Felsen, United States
Assistant Professor, Alliant International University Marshall Goldsmith School of Management
Research Focus: Currently completing a book about controversial issues in U.S. immigration history for Greenwood Press. It is scheduled for publication in 2011.
Antonio Izquierdo Escribano, Spain
Professor, Universidad de Coruña
Research Focus: “Explaining Outcomes of Immigration Control Policies: A Comparative Study of Spain and the United States”
Akihiro Koido, Japan
Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Research Focus: “Immigration Reform and the Immigrant Rights Social Movement in the United States”
Julián López Colas, Spain
Researcher, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
Research Focus: “Explaining Outcomes of Immigration Control Policies: A Comparative Study of Spain and the United States”
Maoxin Liang, China
Professor, Northeast Normal University
Research Focus: “Immigrants and Their Impact on the California Economy, 1980‐2000”
Kate McMillan, New Zealand
Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Research Focus: "Immigration as a wedge issue in election campaigns: a comparative study of the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand".
Adela Ros Hijar, Spain
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute de Barcelona
Research Focus: “Migration in the Information Society”
Rosa Maria Soriano Miras, Spain
Professor, Universidad de Granada
Research Focus: “A Transatlantic Comparison of the Impact of Gender and Export Processing Work Experience on International Labour Migration”
Antonio Trinidad Requena, Spain
Professor, Universidad de Granada
Research Focus: “Research Immigration and Social Welfare”
Magdalena Ziolek, Poland/Germany
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Research Focus: “Development of Immigrant Integration Policies in the United States and the European Union: The Role of Local Initiatives in Four Cities”
Xiana Bueno García, Spain
Ph.D. Candidate, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Research Focus: "Differential reproductive behaviour of Latin American women in US and Spain"
David Capretta, France
Ph.D. Candidate, Instituto de Estudios Migratorios, Madrid, SpainResearch Focus: “Adaptation process of the immigrant second generation in the Spanish context: new perspectives for the segmented assimilation theory”.
Mia Diaz‐Edelman, United States
Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University
Research Focus: "Ecumenical Civic Engagement: Interfaith‐Based Mobilization within the Nonviolent Immigrant Rights Movement in San Diego County"
Micah Gell‐Redman, United States
Ph.D. Candidate, UC San Diego
Research Focus: “The Role of Migration in International Trade Agreements” September 2008 – June 2009
Peter Brownell, United States
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley
Research Focus: “Employer Sanctions Enforcement in the United States.”
Chenxu Sun, China
Ph.D. Candidate, Nankai University
Research Focus: “Mexican Immigration and U.S. Border Enforcement” September 2008 – August 2009
Satomi Era, Japan
Ph.D. Candidate, Hitotsubashi University
Research Focus: Immigrant Construction Workers in US and Japan: Comparative Analysis on Independent Contractors, Day Laborers, and the New Labor Movement"
Saba Ozyurt, Turkey
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Irvine
Research Focus: "Integrating Muslim immigrants in the West: The role of religious institutions and religiosity".
Élise Lanáe McPherson, United States
M.A. Candidate, San Diego State University
Research Focus: "Perceptions of national immigration policy and rhetoric among Arab migrants in the United States and Mexico: A case study of the San Diego‐Tijuana Region."
Eider Muniategi Azkona, Spain
Ph.D. Candidate, Equipo de Investigación en Migraciones Internacionales, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao
Research Focus: “Sociocultural Integration of Immigrants’ Children”
Adam Sawyer, United States
Ed.D. Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Focus: “Migrant Education Here and There: Schooling in a Rural Oaxaca Sending Community and its U.S. Satellite”
