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Visiting Research Fellows and Guest Scholars
Academic Year, 2008


Visiting Research Fellows


Jennifer Blakeslee (Ph.D. Candidate in Demography, Australian National University)

Research Project:
“Consuming Illegality: Migration, Labour, and Agriculture in the United States and Spain, 1985-2005.”

In residence: September 2007- June 2008

   

April Linton (Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCSD)

Research Project:
“Spanish-English Immersion in U.S. Public Schools: Two Languages, A World of Cultures.”

In residence: September 2007- December 2007

   

Kristen Parks (Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UCSD)

Research Project:
“U.S. immigration policy, the role of the migrant workers in the global economy.”

In residence:  September 2007-June 2008

   

 

Javier Serrano Aquino (Ph.D. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Unidad Occidente)

Research Project:
“The Mexican Dream: The Imagined Return among International Migrants from Two Mexican Towns.”

In residence: January 2008 - June 2008

   

Jody Agius Vallejo (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Sociology Assistant Professor, University of Southern California)

Research Project: “Brown Picket Fences: Patterns of Giving Back, Ethnic Identity, and the Role of Ethnic Associations among the Mexican-Origin Middle Class.”

In residence: September 2008-June 2009

 

Senior Fellows

Kathryn Kopinak (Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario)

Research Interests: Relationship between international migration and maquiladora employment in Mexico

In residence: January - July 2008

   

 

Guest Scholars

Élise Lanáe McPherson (M.A. Candidate in Homeland Security at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA)

Research Project: "Perceptions of national immigration policy and rhetoric among Arab migrants in the United States and Mexico: A case study of the San Diego-Tijuana Region."

In residence: June 2008 - December 2008

   

Xiana Bueno García (Ph.D. Candidate in Demography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Research project:
"Differential reproductive behaviour of Latin American women in US and Spain"

In residence: February 2008 - December 2008

   

Magdalena Ziolek (Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

Research project:   "Developments of immigrant integration policies in the United States and in the European Union:  The role of local initiatives in integration of young immigrants on both sides of the Atlantic." (case studies: San Diego, Phoenix, Munich, Warsaw)

In residence: June 2008

   

Peter B. Brownell (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley)

Research Project: "Employer Sanctions Enforcement in the United States"

In residence:
September 2007 – June 2008

   

Mia D. Diaz-Edelman (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Boston University)

Research Project: "Ecumenical Civic Engagement: Interfaith-Based Mobilization within the Nonviolent Immigrant Rights Movement in San Diego County"

In residence: October 2007 – September 2008

   

 

Susan Gordon (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Chicago)

Research Project:
“Theoretical Implications of the Citizenship Project: Images of the Exemplary American in U.S. Citizen Education Textbooks, 1920-present.”

In residence: September 2007- June 2008

   

Ken Henriksen (Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

Research Project: “Transnational Migrant Networks and the Formation of Collective Latino Identities in the United States.”

In residence: March 2008 – June 2008

   
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Rosa M. Soriano Miras (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Universidad de Granada)
 
Research Project: Gender differences in the immigration of maquiladora workers

In residence: June 2007

   

Dong-Hoon Seol (Associate Professor of Sociology, Chonbuk National University, Korea)

Research Project: International Migration and the Citizenship of Migrant Workers: A Comparison of Germany, Japan and Korea

In residence: June 2007 - August 2008

   

 

Adam Sawyer (Ed.D Candidate in International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Research Project
: “Migrant Education Here and There:  Schooling in a Rural Oaxaca Sending Community and its U.S. Satellite”

In residence:
September 2007- June 2008

   

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