Sara Alcay

Sara Alcay is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at UC Davis, specializing in the Sociology of health and illness. Her current research focuses on health inequalities in immigrants’ newborns in developing countries. Through her work, she would like to understand how inequality produces adverse health outcomes over generations. She received her M.S. in Sociology from UC Davis and an M.S. in Social and Political Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. 

Alcay has experience conducting field research and working with immigrant populations in Latin America. Her previous research focused on human trafficking, human rights violations, and child studies. She has published two books: The Concept of Human Trafficking and Theoretical Approaches to Human Trafficking. She has also collaborated in the Mexican Immigrant Census Migration Challenges: Refuge and Shelters as Oases, published by the National Commission of Human Rights in Mexico. She also worked as a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, teaching social research methodology and social research in risk contexts.

Contact: sgalcay@ucdavis.edu