Irene Bloemraad

Irene Bloemraad is Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia, which she recently joined as the inaugural President’s Excellence Chair in Global Migration, with a joint appointment in Political Science and Sociology. Irene studies how immigrants become incorporated into political communities and the consequences of migration on politics and understandings of membership. Her research lies at the intersection of migration studies and political sociology, with a strong interdisciplinary (and international) scope. Prior to coming to UBC, she held the 1951 Chair in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also directed the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. She was trained in the United States and Canada and has held visiting appointments at Trinity College (Ireland) and the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).