2025 Fellowship on Immigrant Integration

David Monda is completing a PhD inpolitical science at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.  His doctoral training is situated at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations with an emphasis on foreign policy and international migration. He was previously a research fellow at the Vera Institute’s Ending Detention Initiative, in Brooklyn, New York, studying the perverse incentives of state and local governments in the mass detention of undocumented immigrants in the United States. His research interests center on foreign policies of the Global South and securitization of narratives around migration. This research has included fieldwork in Belize, South Africa, Brazil, Kenya, and Argentina.

Jeong Taek (JT) Lim (he/him) is a PhD student in sociology at the University at Albany. His research draws on international migration and urban sociology, focusing on the corporate dynamics that shape ethnic settlement in new immigrant destinations in both the US and the Global South. Lim’s passion for this field stems from his personal experiences as a South Korean who has lived in both Vietnam and the United States, allowing him to develop comparative insights into Korean diasporas across different social and geographical contexts. His forthcoming co-authored publication explores the unique migration dynamics in the Global South, specifically Vietnam, and their impact on the ethnic identities of Korean-Vietnamese multicultural adolescents.

Ken Irish-Bramble is an MA student in the international migration studies program at CUNY Graduate Center. He was born on the French side of St. Martin and grew up on the island of Montserrat in the Eastern Caribbean. He has worked as an educator for over twenty-five years in both K-12 and higher education. Irish-Bramble is a graduate of the CUNY BA program and holds graduate degrees from NYU and Pace University.

Irish-Bramble has a broad interest in immigrant issues including issues surrounding immigrant assimilation and acculturation, enduring relationships with countries of origin, and the impact of Caribbean-American immigrants on the political development of the United States. He is currently conducting research on diasporic/expatriate voting rights and voting patterns of naturalized citizens in the United States. Irish-Bramble currently serves as a member of the faculty at Medgar Evers College (CUNY) and campus director of CUNY ICORP at Medgar Evers College. He has published two books, Bricks, Ballots and Bullets (2012) and Violence and Power (2018).

Shiyue Cui is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on international migration, refugee studies, and social inequality. Her dissertation combines quantitative data analysis with qualitative interviews to examine refugees’ resettlement experiences in New York State. The research demonstrates that family and gender practices play a crucial role in shaping their employment prospects and cultural capital accumulation. Additionally, Cui investigates displacement and mobility among immigrant populations more broadly.

Adriana R. Mintarsih is a Fulbright scholar from Indonesia and a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany. During the spring 2025 semester, she will serve as a Women and Public Policy Fellow at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany. Her research primarily focuses on gender, family, and migration, topics on which she has authored several scholarly articles. Her dissertation examines the agency and emotional experiences of Indonesian young adults who remain behind when their parents migrate for informal work either within Indonesia or abroad.