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Jake Watson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His research employs mixed methods approaches to study the governance of international migration, with a particular focus on refugees. He has conducted extensive fieldwork across Africa, North America, and Europe. Watson is specifically interested in how states classify groups of migrants as worthy of admission, and how the resulting statuses and resources are embedded within organizational bureaucratic systems. His research explores how governance regimes reflect broader racial inequalities and global power imbalances, utilizing ethnographic methods to investigate how migrants develop a sense of identity and political subjectivity in the context of their everyday lives. His work has been published in esteemed journals such as the American Sociological Review, European Journal of Sociology, Ethnic & Racial Studies, International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, and Social Problems.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).