Seeking Asylum

Chiara Galli is Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2020 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell from 2020 to 2022.

Dr. Galli is the author of the book “Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States” (University of California Press. 2023), an ethnographic study that chronicles the experiences and perspectives of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the U.S. asylum process. For more information on Dr. Galli’s research, visit www.gallichiara.com.

Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor and Chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the Cornell University ILR School, as well as a professor by courtesy in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching focus on projects that examine the implementation of immigrant worker rights as well as the interdisciplinary study of the forces that shape migration flows and migrant experiences. Dr. Gleeson is also engaged in various collaborative projects that examine the implementation of immigrant worker rights. 

Dr. Gleeson is the author of five books based on her work; the most recent is “Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America” (University of Texas Press, 2019, edited with Xóchitl Bada). Dr. Gleeson holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously on the faculty of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.