Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
Globally, 244 million people have left their birthplace and live in another country. Locally, more than one in four Californians are immigrants. Our interdisciplinary network of researchers places the social, political, legal and economic dynamics of immigration in the Bay Area within global trends of economic mobility, forced migration and family reunification. We seek a holistic picture of migration that embraces new data-gathering technologies as well as embedded, on-the-ground fieldwork, and which draws on the expertise of faculty, students and the communities we study.
Irene Bloemraad
Irene Bloemraad (Ph.D. Harvard; M.A. McGill) is Professor of Sociology and the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies at Berkeley. She is also the founding Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. In 2014-15, she served as a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences committee reporting on the integration of immigrants into American society.
Digital Refuge: Developing Information Infrastructure in Crisis
We are currently building an online platform to fill information gaps and correct the types of miscommunication that prompt refugees to distrust host governments and their services.
Mapping Spatial Inequality: Poverty and Immigration
There is a new geography of poverty and immigration, with more immigrants and poor people living in the suburbs.
Attempts to Cancel DACA Produce Negative Effects on Health
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has granted 800,000 young undocumented immigrants work authorization and protection from deportation, but its impact extends to their overall health and well-being.
A Public Health Crisis in the Shadows
Explores how the living conditions experienced by Latino migrant day laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area affect their physical health, their mental health, and their chances of contracting infectious diseases.
Gaps in Health Services for Immigrants in the Bay Area
This Data Brief summarizes key findings from the BIMI project "Mapping Spatial Inequality," as it relates to health services in the Bay Area.
Gaps in Health Services for Immigrants in the Central Valley
This Data Brief summarizes key findings from the Mapping Spatial Inequality Project, as it relates to health services in the Central Valley.
