Job title:
Professor of Sociology and Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies
Department:
Department of Sociology
Bio/CV:
Irene Bloemraad is an associate professor of Sociology and the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies at Berkeley. Her research focuses on how immigrants become incorporated into political bodies and the consequences of their presence on politics and understandings of membership. She is the author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement (with Karthick Ramakrishnan), and Rallying for Immigrant Rights (co-edited with Kim Voss).
Research interests:
Immigration, political sociology, race & ethnicity, social movements, nationalism, research methods, Canada