Immigration
UC Berkeley is home to numerous experts who can comment on the history of U.S. immigration law, ongoing deportation efforts and the lived realities of immigrants today.
Journalists needing additional assistance: email [email protected].
Executive director, Berkeley Law Criminal Law & Justice Center
Immigration detention, criminal law and immigration, local enforcement issues. Mexico Solidarity Bulletin. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Assistant professor of sociology, faculty director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
Immigration policy, migrant children and families, U.S. integration. Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, KJZZ
Professor of sociology
Welfare state, immigration, race and ethnic relations, American political development. Bloomberg
Continuing lecturer in ethnic studies
Mexican immigration, Chicanx social movements and activism. CalMatters, UC Berkeley News. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Assistant professor of law; faculty director of the Deportation Data Project
Immigration enforcement data, immigration detention, immigration enforcement trends. Voices Carry podcast, KALW, Berkeleyside, Washington Post
Associate professor of history; director of the Canadian Studies Program
History of US immigration law and policy; nativism and xenophobia, immigrant labor, European and Asian immigration history. WBUR/NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Time. Speaker of Japanese and English.
Associate professor of political science
Public opinion on immigration, anti-immigration attitudes. Slate, Washington Post, The Hill, Nature. Speaker of Korean and English.
Assistant professor of English
Immigration, citizenship and language in contemporary American ethnic literatures; literary depictions of detention and family separation.
Assistant professor of social welfare, director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative
Families and children impacted by immigration enforcement. KQED, The Guardian, Berkeleyside
Associate professor of sociology, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies
Politics and race, immigration, Latino migration. UC Berkeley News, KQED . Speaker of Spanish and English.
Associate professor of public policy
Immigration policy, enforcement, arrests and detention; sanctuary, DACA, undocumented immigrants, mixed-status families. Los Angeles Times, The Marshall Project / Univision Noticias, Huffington Post, KALW-FM. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Liliana V. Rodriguez
Assistant professor of ethnic studies
Immigrant youth, undocumented youth, oral history. Speaker of Spanish and English.
