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Els de Graauw is Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Migration Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She serves as Faculty Director of the International Migration Studies MA Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and is an affiliate faculty member in Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College. Her academic career spans multiple institutions and research centers across the United States and Europe.
Dr. de Graauw earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She has held research appointments at prestigious institutions including Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the European University Institute.
Her research expertise centers on immigration studies, with particular focus on how governmental and nongovernmental organizations build institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation. She examines civil society organizations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, and public policy through qualitative research methods. Her work investigates critical areas such as language access, labor rights, municipal ID cards, and the development of city and state immigrant affairs offices across the United States. She frequently collaborates with scholars and practitioners across institutions, including her current NSF-funded research with Shannon Gleeson of Cornell University on DACA implementation.
Dr. de Graauw has received recognition for her scholarship, most notably for her award-winning book Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Cornell University Press, 2016). She is also co-author of Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston (Temple University Press, 2024) and co-editor of Migrants, Minorities, and the Media: Information, Representations, and Participation in the Public Sphere (Routledge, 2017). She is currently working on her fourth book, Grassroots Bureaucracy: How Cities and States Integrate Immigrants, and co-editing the Handbook on Migration and Cities.
Her research has been supported by numerous prestigious organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. With Shannon Gleeson of Cornell University, she is conducting an NSF-funded study on the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program across multiple metropolitan areas.
Dr. de Graauw has made significant contributions to her field through professional leadership. In 2012, she co-founded the Section on Migration and Citizenship of the American Political Science Association, serving as its elected co-president and secretary from 2012 to 2016. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2014-2024) and Urban Affairs Review (2016-2023), and currently sits on the International Advisory Council of Metropolis International.
She regularly teaches courses on immigration and social movements at Baruch College, mentoring students through MA capstone projects and PhD dissertations. Beyond academia, she frequently collaborates with community organizations and local governments in the United States and Europe to advance immigrant integration through local action.
