about

Welcome! I am a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. My research uses multiple methods to explore questions at the nexus of international migration, law and society, race and ethnicity, and social stratification. 

I study the transnational consequences of the U.S. immigration system, with a focus on deportation and its aftermath. Most of my current research examines how deported migrants (mainly from Central America) experience and respond to the ripple effects of deportation in countries of return. Specifically, I investigate 1) the social, material, and health impacts of deportation on migrants' reintegration and well-being, and 2) how they negotiate decisions about migrating again in response to the harms of deportation itself.  

My research has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and the Journal of Migration and Human Security. My work has also received generous funding support from the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), the Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), among others. 

I was born in El Salvador and raised in the MacArthur Park/Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. I graduated from Pitzer College in 2018 with a  B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies. At Pitzer, I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. 

You can read more about my research here.