Jacqueline Hagan | |
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Born | Jacqueline Maria Hagan August 28, 1954 |
Nationality | American |
Education | George Washington University University of Texas at Austin |
Known for | Immigration to the United States from Latin America |
Awards | Elected member of the Sociological Research Association (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology |
Institutions | University of Houston University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Thesis | The legalization experience of a Mayan community in Houston (1990) |
Doctoral advisors | Harley Browning Bryan Roberts |
Jacqueline Maria Hagan (born August 28, 1954)[1] is a Chilean-born American sociologist who has been the Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2017. She is known for her research on immigration from Latin America to the United States, and on the effects of the United States' immigration policies on immigrants.[2] This work has included studies of the social effects of deportations of undocumented immigrants to their home countries,[3] and research on changes in the frequency of different causes of migrant deaths along the Mexico–United States border.[4]