Migration and Immigrant Processes

Dr. Getrich's research focuses on the health, well-being, and incorporation of structurally marginalized immigrants in the United States. She examines the lived and embodied experiences of U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices to determine how immigrants, their children, and advocates maneuver to fight for inclusion, well-being, and justice. Her current research focuses on the impact of intensifying immigration enforcement on the mental health of immigrant communities in the D.C. Metro region.

Maureen Cropper is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and a former Lead Economist at the World Bank. Dr. Cropper has served as chair of the EPA Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and as past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Philip Cohen, Professor of Sociology, has a long-standing research interest in the area of Gender, Family, and Social Change. In particular, he has published extensively on the gender division of labor within families, and between men and women outside of families. In addition to the substantive aspects of this research, he has maintained a strong interest in measurement issues in the area of household and family structure, which has included participating in Counting Couples research conferences at NICHD and consulting with the U.S.

Dr. Jie Chen is Chair and Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration, School of Public Health, at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her PhD (2008) degree in economics from Stony Brook University. Dr. Chen conducts research in two fields (1) health disparity and (2) health policy analysis. Her health disparity research focuses on identifying and quantifying the factors associated with the disparities in health care access, utilization and expenditure among different racial and ethnic groups and immigrants in the United States. Dr.

Dr. Carter's work is concerned with migration as a feature of Black life, most importantly, the process of self-determination. How America helps, hinders, or honors those migrants’ claims for relief is central to her work, which is primarily domestic in orientation but also international. At the same time, Dr. Carter's work looks at contemporary and historical patterns of migration not only as human movement but also as political strategy.

Natasha J. Cabrera, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College of Education, at University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining the University of Maryland in 2002, Dr. Cabrera had several years of experience as an Executive Branch Fellow and Expert in Child Development with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr.

Dr. Michel Boudreaux is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration in the School of Public Health, University of Maryland. He received a PhD (2014) in health services research, policy, and administration from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Boudreaux conducts research in two primary areas. His substantive area of interest is in the evolution of health and socioeconomic position across the life-course and between generations, with a special emphasis on the role of health policy on long-term outcomes.

Alok Bhargava is a professor of public policy. He studied economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics. Before joining the School of Public Policy, Bhargava was a full professor of economics at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. in econometrics from the London School of Economics. Bhargava has been publishing on important aspects of food policy and population health in several countries. He is an associate editor of the journal Economics and Human Biology. His ability to move between various disciplines has been described as "polymath powers".

As a life course criminologist, her research interests involve the study of patterns and predictors of offending from adolescence through adulthood. Key themes include the investigation of desistance and persistence in offending, the factors that facilitate and hinder desistance from criminal offending, divergence in offending across race/ethnicity, gender, and immigration status, and the application of innovative methodologies to understanding the mechanisms of behavioral change.

Christopher Antoun is an Assistant Research Professor with a joint appointment at the College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). His research focuses on using smartphones to collect population data, either through text messaging, mobile questionnaires, or apps and sensors. Before coming to UMD, he obtained his PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan and was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau.