Amy Hsin

Amy Hsin is a Professor of Migration at the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on immigration, race and ethnicity, education, and social inequality in the United States. She employs mixed-methods approaches to study how structural forces like immigration policy and racial stratification influence educational outcomes, labor markets, and family life.

• Faculty Affiliate, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights

Hsin’s work emphasizes undocumented youth, policy advocacy (e.g., DACA, birthright citizenship), and institutional dynamics reproducing inequality. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and others, with media coverage in The New York Times, The Economist, and NPR.

She currently serves as president-elect of the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association and was appointed to New York City’s School Diversity Advisory Committee.