Amalia Torrecillas
Amalia is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at the CUNY Graduate Center, where her research focuses on labor informality, inequality, and the political economy of social policy. Her work examines how informal and precarious labor arrangements shape economic insecurity, access to social protection, and democratic governance, with a particular emphasis on migrant and marginalized workers. Methodologically, she combines comparative political economy, welfare state analysis, and mixed methods, drawing on both macro-level data and on-the-ground research in urban contexts. Alongside her research, she is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Baruch College, where she teaches Introductory American Government and prioritizes connecting institutional analysis to everyday labor realities.
In Spring 2025, she plans to incorporate China-related content by examining labor informality, migration, and inequality in China in a comparative perspective, focusing on state regulation, social insurance systems, and urban labor governance. The China at CUNY Initiative will help her strengthen her comparative framework by providing mentorship and resources that enable her to integrate China’s labor and welfare institutions into her teaching and research in a rigorous, grounded way.
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