Migration and Immigrant Processes

Dr. Osuji conducts research on race and migration both domestic and international, particularly as it pertains to Africans and Afro-descendants across the globe. She has published research on interracial marriage in Brazil and the United States, including the impact of domestic migration on being interracially married. She is also interested in the impact of African migrants on notions of race and ethnicity in the United States and abroad.

Daniel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He completed his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley in 2024. Daniel's research focuses on urbanization, agricultural transformation, and social networks in East Africa. He has ongoing projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. 

Hayley Park is a PhD student whose research examines immigrant information experiences through participatory and mixed methods approaches, alongside critical analyses of technology in a rapidly evolving information environment. Her work focuses on how immigration status and contemporary policy conditions shape immigrants’ information practices.

Yi-ching Huang is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Maryland. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology from National Taiwan University. Her research interests include parenting, immigrant, Asian / Asian American, inequality.

Dr. Wilson is an environmental health scientist with expertise in environmental justice and environmental health disparities.

I am a Survey Methodologist and Applied Statistician with interests in interviewer effects, interviewer-respondent interaction, survey falsification, paradata, and modeling of complex survey data; as such, these interests relate to many areas of population research and demography. I am currently working with Prof. Sonalde Desai and Prof. Feinian Chen to design and implement the 3rd wave of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS3). IHDS3 will also be interviewing migrant panelists.

Dr. Sapkota's primary research interests lie in the area of exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology. He is interested in utilizing personal as well as population level exposure assessment methods to understand risk of risk of respiratory diseases. Current ongoing projects include 1) indoor air pollution from solid fuels and lung cancer risk in Nepal, 2) traffic exposure and risk of asthma exacerbation, and 3) climate change and respiratory diseases among representative sample of US population.

Dr. Robin Puett completed post-doctoral training with the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests are in the areas of environmental and spatial exposure assessment and epidemiology. She is using large cohort studies and population-based data to explore the association of air pollution exposures with health outcomes and modification by diet and other lifestyle factors. She is also using these and other data to examine spatial associations between environmental context (e.g. built environment) and health outcomes.

My recent research focuses on how measuring and rating teacher quality affects both students and teachers through their entire educational process and how public policies influence underprivileged groups such as immigrants and low-income populations. Particularly, my research looks at how to improve inequality through longitudinal studies of students through the education system. It also looks at how immigrants and overall inequality are affected by immigration policies and the teaching of English as second language in the United States education system.

Susan W. Parker is a professor in the School of Public Policy. Previously, she was a professor of economics at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. Her research focuses principally on education and health in developing countries and in particular on the evaluation of programs and public policies. She has particular interest in the areas of conditional cash transfer programs and targeting.