Katharine M. Donato holds the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and is Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her research addresses many research questions related to global migration. Her most articles address the integration of immigrants entering as unaccompanied children (co-authored with Natalia Lopez); whether and how erosion links to out-migration in Bangladesh (co-authored with Amanda Carrico, among others); the efficacy of using organic big data to predict forced migration (co-authored with Lisa Singh, Ali Arab, Elizabeth Jacobs, Nathan Wycoff, and Helge Marahrens); and asylum-seeking in U.S. immigration courts (co-authored with Karen Musalo, Anna Law, Annie Daher, and Chelsea Meiners). In addition, her recent edited volumes describe the landscape of U.S. legal migration and compare refugee resettlement and integration outcomes in Canada, Europe and the United States. Her books include (with Elizabeth Ferris) Refugees, Migration and Global Governance: Negotiating the Global Compacts, and (with Donna Gabaccia) Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age. She is the Principal Investigator on a project about the assimilation and mobility experiences of U.S. immigrant adults who entered as unaccompanied children (funded by the Russell Sage Foundation). She is also co-Principal Investigator on several projects: 1) one that examines how environmental conditions affect out-migration from communities in southwestern Bangladesh (funded by the National Science Foundation); 2) another that examines durable solutions for internally displaced persons (funded by the International Organization for Migration); and 3) another that integrates traditional survey data with digital organic data from google searches and social media to predict forced migration. In 2017-18, Professor Donato was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was on the faculty of Vanderbilt and Rice Universities.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Secondary
- SFS Faculty Chair, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service