Jihye Lee

PhD in Social Work Candidate

Contact

Email: jihye.l@wustl.edu
Preferred Pronouns: she/her/hers

Areas of Focus

Economic integration of refugees and immigrants
Digital inclusion
Migration policy

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Biography

Jihye Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Work at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines how immigration policies shape the economic integration and well-being of forcibly displaced people, with a particular focus on digital inclusion as a stepping-stone toward – or a barrier to – integration. Drawing on quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods, she studies how economic integration is defined and measured in research and policy, and how refugees and immigrants themselves understand and experience it.

In the news

Two from Brown School named fellows by WashU’s Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity

Graduate Research Assistant Jihye Lee wins the Second Prize in the Social Science Category at the 2025 30th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

Center awards seed grants to projects in human rights, gender and migration

Brown School faculty and students receive Global Pilot Research Grants