City University of New York

Els de Graauw is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, the City University of New York, and she is also the Deputy Director of the MA Program in International Migration Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on immigration, civil society organisations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, and public policy, and it seeks to understand how especially in the context of the United States governmental and non-governmental organisations build institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation.