Jihye Lee
PhD in Social Work Student
Contact
Email: jihye.l@wustl.edu
Preferred Pronouns: she/her/hers
Areas of Focus
Migration policy
Multidimensional poverty
Economic integration of refugees and immigrants
Forced Migration
DACA
Biography
Jihye Lee earned her MSW and BA in Social Work at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. Her research focuses on social policies related to the economic integration and multidimensional poverty of immigrants, with a specific emphasis on forced and unauthorized migration populations. Her research was inspired by her experiences as a researcher and social worker, during which she witnessed how exclusionary social policies contribute to poverty and hinder social integration into the host community among immigrant young adults. Jihye’s primary goal is to examine the trajectory of multidimensional exclusion among immigrant populations exposed to poverty and inequality.
In the news
Two from Brown School named fellows by WashU’s Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity
Center awards seed grants to projects in human rights, gender and migration
Brown School faculty and students receive Global Pilot Research Grants