About

Adriana (she/her/hers) is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Her research uses multiple methods to explore questions at the nexus of international migration, law and society, social demography, and inequality. 

Born in El Salvador, Adriana migrated to the U.S. at the age of five and was raised in the MacArthur Park/Westlate neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her background informs her academic interests and unwavering commitment to the communities she studies.

Her research examines the impact of immigration law and enforcement on the lives of immigrants and their families (mainly from Central America), who live in the U.S. and their home countries. In particular, Adriana's current work contributes to growing research on the aftermath of deportation. Her multi-sited, multi-method dissertation explores how Salvadoran immigrants navigate and negotiate life after deportation. She has received generous funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), and the Mellon Mays Foundation.

She received her M.A. in Sociology from Yale University in 2023 and her B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies from Pitzer College in 2018. 

Read more about her research here.