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  • 2005 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Irene Bloemraad is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their academic work primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration in sociology and political science. Their research intersects with topics related to migration, refugees, integration, labor dynamics, and the socio-political dimensions of ethnicity and diaspora.

Their research topics include:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Key recent publications by Irene Bloemraad include:

  • "Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability" (2021), published in International Migration Review
  • "Immigrant Organizations" (2022), published in Annual Review of Sociology
  • "Claiming membership: boundaries, positionality, US citizenship, and what it means to be American" (2021), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Irene Bloemraad are:

  • Shannon Gleeson
  • Cecilia Menjívar
  • Sarah Song
  • Els de Graauw
  • Ethan Roubenoff

The main venues where Irene Bloemraad has published include:

  • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • International Migration Review
  • Annual Review of Sociology
  • Migration Studies

Their expertise extends across various subfields including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, demography, general health professions, and political science and international relations. These interdisciplinary areas support their comprehensive exploration of migration-related phenomena and social identity.

Among their accolades, Irene Bloemraad received the Hellman Fellow award in 2005, recognizing their contributions in the academic field.

Best Publications

  • Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State

    Irene Bloemraad;Anna Korteweg;Gþökçe Yurdakul

  • Does Immigration Erode Social Capital? The Conditional Effects of Immigration-Generated Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 19 Countries, 1981–2000

    Christel Kesler;Irene Bloemraad

  • The Oxford handbook of citizenship

    Ayelet Shachar;Rainer Bauböck;Irene Bloemraad;Maarten Peter Vink

  • Who Claims Dual Citizenship? The Limits of Postnationalism, the Possibilities of Transnationalism, and the Persistence of Traditional Citizenship

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Is There a Trade-off between Multiculturalism and Socio-Political Integration? Policy Regimes and Immigrant Incorporation in Comparative Perspective

    Matthew Wright;Irene Bloemraad

  • Becoming a Citizen in the United States and Canada: Structured Mobilization and Immigrant Political Incorporation

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement

    S. Karthick Ramakrishnan;Irene Bloemraad

  • Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America

    Kim Voss;Irene Bloemraad

  • Migrants, Minorities, and the Media: Information, representations, and participation in the public sphere

    Erik Bleich;Irene Bloemraad;Els de Graauw

  • The Limits of de Tocqueville: How Government Facilitates Organisational Capacity in Newcomer Communities

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Representation in Europe: Conceptual Challenges and Theoretical Approaches

    Karen Schönwälder;Irene Bloemraad

  • It's a Family Affair: Intergenerational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests

    Irene Bloemraad;Christine Trost

  • Citizenship and immigration a current review

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Theorising the power of citizenship as claims-making

    Irene Bloemraad

  • The North American Naturalization Gap: An Institutional Approach to Citizenship Acquisition in the United States and Canada

    Irene Bloemraad

  • It's a Family Affair

    Irene Bloemraad;Christine Trost

  • “Utter Failure” or Unity out of Diversity? Debating and Evaluating Policies of Multiculturalism

    Irene Bloemraad;Matthew Wright

  • Accessing the Corridors of Power: Puzzles and Pathways to Understanding Minority Representation

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Rallying for Immigrant Rights

    Kim Voss;Irene Bloemraad

  • The Protests of 2006

    Irene Bloemraad;Kim Voss;Taeku Lee

  • Cultures of engagement: The organizational foundations of advancing health in immigrant and low-income communities of color.

    Irene Bloemraad;Veronica Terriquez

  • Membership without Social Citizenship? Deservingness & Redistribution as Grounds for Equality

    Irene Bloemraad;Will Kymlicka;Michèle Lamont;Leanne S. Son Hing

  • Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation:

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Being American/Becoming American: Birthright Citizenship and Immigrants’ Membership in the United States

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Immigrants in the Media: Civic Visibility in the USA and Canada

    Irene Bloemraad;Els de Graauw;Rebecca Hamlin

  • “The Great Concern of Government”Public Policy as Material and Symbolic Resources

    Irene Bloemraad

  • Immigrants and civil rights in cross-national perspective: Lessons from North America

    Irene Bloemraad;Doris Marie Provine

  • Civic Hopes and Political Realities

    S. Karthic Ramakrishnan;Irene Bloemraad

  • Immigrants' political incorporation

    I. Bloemraad;F. Vermeulen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
Eddy S. Ng
Eddy S. Ng Queen's University
Rainer Bauböck
Rainer Bauböck European University Institute
Maarten Peter Vink
Maarten Peter Vink Maastricht University
Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka Queen's University
Kimberly Matheson
Kimberly Matheson Carleton University
Erik Bleich
Erik Bleich Middlebury College

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