Hazan Miryam

Miryam Hazán is a Policy Analyst at Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC, where she researches issues related to US-Mexican-Central American migration policies, including development, education, workforce training, security and immigrant integration.

Dr. Hazán has worked as a visiting scholar at Rutgers University and as a research assistant for the Public Policy Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, where she researched the political incorporation of Mexican immigrants in the United States. She received her PhD in government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. She earned an MA in Latin American studies from Georgetown University with a specialisation in international relations, and has a BA in journalism and mass communications from the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. Dr. Hazán's dissertation work is now a book manuscript entitled Becoming Mexican and American: Mexican Immigrant Politics for a New Century, under review by Cambridge University Press. Before coming to the United States, she worked as a journalist in Mexico City, including six years at El Financiero.