Emir Estrada

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Areas of Expertise: Immigrant Children, Teens and Families, Immigration and Migration, Sociocultural Anthropology


Emir Estrada earned her doctorate and master’s in sociology from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2012. She received her bachelor’s in sociology with a minor in Chicano/a Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and she is also a proud Long Beach City College (LBCC) alumni. Estrada is a qualitative immigration scholar interested in the migration an incorporation aspect of immigrants from Latin America. Her research interests in immigration and gender are influenced in great part by her own immigration experience. She is currently investigating three lines of research that share a common theme centered on Latina/o families and decision making processes.