Erin R. Hamilton

Erin Hamilton sitting in her office

Position Title
Professor

she/her/hers
2244 Social Science and Humanities
Office Hours
Fall 2024: Tuesdays 9-11 at SSH 2244 or by appointment
Bio

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, 2009
  • M.A., Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, 2005
  • B.A., Policy Studies, Rice University, 2001

About

Erin Hamilton is professor of sociology and an affiliate of the UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, the UC Davis Global Migration Center, and the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas. She is an Associate Editor at Demographic Research and a Deputy Editor at Demography.

Research Focus

Erin Hamilton studies when, why, and how people migrate, and with what consequences for migrants, their families, and the communities they leave and enter. She is currently working on research projects on legal status, deportation, family and child migration, and migrant health. She was a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City in spring 2019. Erin is the co-author, with Robert Hummer, of Population Health in America.

 

Publications

Books

Cover of The Returned

Coming in March 2025!

Robert A. Hummer and Erin R. Hamilton. 2019. Population Health in America. Oakland, CA: UC Press.

Policy Briefs

De Facto Deported Children in Mexico Face Socioeconomic Disadvantage

DACA Associated with Improved Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Immigrant Mothers

DACA Enables Mobility, but its Uncertain Future Undermines Benefits for Recipients

DACA Uncertainty May Undermine its Positive Impact on Wellbeing

Deported Fathers Will Risk Harsh Penalties to Return to Families in the U.S.

Articles

Erin R. Hamilton, Claudia Masferrer, and Paola Langer. 2023. “U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico.” Population and Development Review 49(1): 175-203.

Erin R. Hamilton, Paola Langer*, and Caitlin C. Patler. 2021. “DACA's Association with Birth Outcomes among Mexican-origin Mothers in the United States.” Demography 58 (3): 975–985.

Claudia Masferrer León, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier. 2019. “Immigrants in their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle throughout Mexico.” Demography 56(4): 1453-1461.

Erin R. Hamilton, Jo Mhairi Hale, and Robin Savinar. 2019. “Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the U.S.” Demography 56(1): 1-24.

Teaching

Professor Hamilton teaches undergraduate courses in international migration (SOC 4), demography (SOC 170), and population health (SOC 163), as well as the graduate introduction to research methods (SOC 201) and seminars on migration and demography. She also leads the Sociology Department's Undergraduate Honors Program, which you can read more about here!

Awards

2020 ASA Population Section Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population Award

2019 UC Davis Chancellor's Fellowship

2018-2019 U.S. Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar

Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
  • B.A., Policy Studies, Rice University, 2001
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