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Research Associates

This page contains a list of all affiliated researchers, their affiliation, and a brief description of research interests. The research affiliates are arranged alphabetically; you may click on a letter of the alphabet to search for a particular name.


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Manolo Abella

International Labour Office, International Migration Programme

International labour migration in the Asia-

David Abraham

University of Miami School of Law

Immigration law; citizenship and membership; comparative law/Europe/EEC

Laura Adams

University of San Diego School of Law

Immigration law, particularly refugee law

Howard Adelman

York University (Canada), Centre for Refugee Studies

Early warning and conflict management; the genocide in Rwanda; the Rwanda crisis from Uganda to Zaire

Belén Agrela

alternate email

Universidad de Jaén Escuela Universitaria de Trabajo Social Dpto. de Psicología, Área de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales

Immigration policies with immigrants in Spain; institutional construction of cultural and ethnic differences; immigration and welfare; anthropology of policy; immigration and gender

Frernando Alanis

El Colegio de San Luis Potosi (Mexico)

Impacts in Mexico of Mass Return Migration from the United States, 1929 - 1934

Rafael Alarcón

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana, México)

Role of immigrant labor in high-tech industries in the U.S.; economic and social linkages between Mexican labor-exporting communities and California receiving communities

Richard D. Alba

University at Albany, State University of New York

Race and ethnicity, immigration, quantitative methods and statistics, demography

Maurizio Albahari

University of California-Irvine

Transnational migration; religion, secularism, and the public sphere; the national form; politics of space and culture; and national and supranational governance, European Union, Italy.

Mikhail A. Alexseev

San Diego State University, Dept. of Political Science

Socioeconomic and psychological bases of interethnic hostility arising from migration; preventive monitoring of hostility with opinion surveys and event-data systems; Chinese migration in the Russian Far East

Stefan Alscher

Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute of Social Sciences/Demography

Undocumented migration at the edges of the 'New Europe': A comparison of border regions in Southern Spain and Eastern Poland

Teófilo Altamirano

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Dept. of Social Science

Relations between sending and receiving countries created by remittances; regional and local development and transnationalism; Peruvians in the USA, Europe, Japan, and Australia

Robert Alvarez

UC San Diego, Dept. of Ethnic Studies

Mexico, US-Mexico Border, Transnational markets and entrepreneurs, ethnography, US-Mexico trade

Eileen P. Anderson-Fye

UC Los Angeles

Enculturation and acculturation of immigrant adolescents (focus on Belize); gender, cultural change, and mental health in children and adolescents (focus on culture and trauma)

Peter Andreas

Brown University, Dept. of Political Science and International Studies

Border policing; immigration control; migrant smuggling

A. Aneesh

Stanford University, Program in Science, Technology and Society

High-skilled labor migration from India and the United States; the role of technologies in facilitating and policing high-skilled immigration

Solon Ardittis

Eurasylum Ltd

European immigration and asylum policy, and issues of human trafficking/smuggling in Europe and internationally

David Ayon

Loyola Marymount University

Political participation and representation of Latino immigrants in the United States

Martin Baldwin-Edwards

Panteion University (Athens, Greece), Mediterranean Migration Observatory

Sociology and political economy of Third World migration to southern Europe; immigrants and the welfare state; European immigration policies

Kathryn Baltensperger

UC-San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Eastern Europe as a source of international migrants to OECD countries

Jeanne Batalova

alternate e-mail

UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology

Skilled and professional migration; Impacts of immigration on social structures and labor markets; Multiracial identification

Renato Graziano Battistella

Scalabrini Migration Center (Philippines)

Irregular migration in Southeast Asia

Thomas Bauer

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA -- Bonn, Germany)

Labor market effects of immigration and immigration policy in Germany

Elizabeth Anne Beal

University of Chicago

Consumption; identity formation; nationalism; gender and capitalism; globalization theory; technology; Arab societies; Palestinian migrants and Jordanians; contemporary U.S.

Frank D. Bean

UC Irvine Dept. of Sociology 

Mexican migration to the U.S; impacts of immigration on U.S. social structure and labor markets; internal migration in Mexico

Roni Berger

Adelphi University School of Social Work

Immigrant women; remarriage and stepfamilies; immigrant adolescents; issues in law guardianship

Judith K. Bernhard

Ryerson University

Children; transnational families; culture and education; transformative education

Christophe Bertossi

University of Warwick (United Kingdom), Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER)

Citizenship theory, policies and practices; European citizenship; nationality laws; immigration policies; mobilizations of migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe; discrimination, nationalism, multiculturalism

Julian Betts

UC San Diego, Department of Economics

Educational attainment of immigrants in the U.S.

Lina Beydoun

Wayne State University,
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Immigrant entrepreneurs, ethnic minorities and multiculturalism, citizenship, Lebanese migration to West Africa and the USA, Arab societies

Frank Biess

UC San Diego, Department of History

The role of immigrant labor in postwar reconstruction of the "two Germany's"

Richard Black

University of Sussex (UK), Sussex Centre for Migration Research

Impact of emigration, development of transnational networks, and return migration on poverty reduction and sustainable development in West Africa

Hoyt Bleakley

UC San Diego, Department of Economics

Economic returns to language proficiency; assimilation of childhood immigrants; labor economics

Irene Bloemraad

University of California, Berkeley Department of Sociology

Citizenship; political participation; comparative immigration; refugee studies

Deborah Boehm

U.C. San Diego, Center for U.S, Mexican Studies, and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

Mexican (im)migration and transnationalism; citizenship and national membership; gender subjectivities and family relations among transnational migrants

Monica Boyd

University of Toronto (Canada), Dept. of Sociology

International migration to North America; immigration policy; immigrant women; immigrant offspring; labour market insertion of migrants

Mehdi Bozorgmehr

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center

Immigrant professionals and entrepreneurs; ethnic identity; immigrant cities; Middle Eastern Americans

Leticia Junqueira Braga

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education

Portuguese-speaking immigrants; the role of community organizations in immigrant adolescents' adaptation; transnationalism; ethnic identity

Ana Bravo

Campus de la Cartuja (Spain), Dpto. de Antropología, Facultad de Educación

Transnational Latin-American households in Spain: the impact of regularization

Gilbert Brenes Camacho

Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro Centroamericano de Población

Indirect estimation techniques for measuring migration flows and stocks; migration and labor markets; migration and health issues; crime statistics

Caroline Bieler Brettell

Southern Methodist University, Dept. of Anthropology

Social, economic, and political incorporation of new immigrants in Dallas; Portuguese emigration/immigration (in U.S., Canada, Europe); the impact of emigration on the sending society

Carmina Brittain

San Jose State University Department of Secondary Education College of Education

Immigration and education; children and family issues related to immigration; Latino and Asian immigrant populations

Peter B. Brownell

University of California, Berkeley

International Migration, Stratification/Inequality, Quantitative Methods, Political Sociology, Law & Society, Demography, Work/Labor, and Latin America.

Rachel Brunette

Stanford University

Foreign workers in Japan; Japanese immigration policy; migration in Asia

Kitty Calavita

UC Irvine Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society

Sociology of U.S. immigration law and policy

Milos Calda

Charles University (Czech Republic), Department of American Studies

Immigration; American history; demography; social policy; cultural studies

Gustavo Cano Hernández

Columbia University, Dept. of Political Science

Political mobilization of Mexican immigrants in Chicago and Houston

Josefa (Fina) Carpena-Méndez

University of California-Berkeley

Childhoods and youths in late capitalism; the changing global political economy of age relations; child labor, education, and rural development; globalization, migration and transnational families; everyday life,
political and structural violence; social memory and history; Nahuas (Puebla, Mexico)

Susan Carter

UC Riverside, Dept. of Economics

Historical perspectives on the labor market; population dynamics

Maria Bianet Castellanos

UC San Diego, Department of Ethnic Studies

Yucatec Maya internal migration in México

Lisa Catanzarite

UC Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research Center

Socioeconomic mobility of immigrants in the U.S.

Ayse Ceyhan

Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris), Political Science and International Relations

Borders, identity and security

Paula Chakravartty

UC San Diego, Dept. of Communication

The global politics of migration and the formation of a transnational community of Indian high-tech workers

William Chandler

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Immigration policy and politics in Europe.

Ruth K. Chao

UC Riverside, Dept. of Psychology

Effect of parental involvement in school on adolescents' school achievement and behavioral and psychological adjustment among Chinese, Filipino, and Mexican immigrants

Leo Chávez

UC Irvine, Dept. of Anthropology

Sociocultural integration of Mexican immigrants in the United States; media coverage of undocumented immigration

Sergio Chavez

Cornell University, Dept. of Rural Sociology

Immigration and transnationalism; border studies; ethnic identity; critical ethnography

Aleksey S. Chesnokov

Ural State University (Russia ), Dept. of Political Science

International migration in Russia and former Soviet Union countries; comparative immigration in Russia, the U.S., and the European Union; immigration and political transformation; immigrant social integration and public intolerance toward immigrants

Margaret May Chin

Hunter College

Chinese, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Dominican immigrant garment workers in New York

Barry R. Chiswick

University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Economics

Labor economics and human resources; immigration and minorities; public policy analysis

Anastasia Christou

University of Sussex (UK)

Migration and return migration; ethnicity and nationalism; space and place; self and other; diasporas and transnationalism; iIdentity and culture; globalization and networks; narrative and life stories; oral history; ethnography; qualitative research; gender and feminism; cultural landscapes and memory; home and belonging; Greek-Americans and the second generation

Angie Y. Chung

SUNY Albany, Dept. of Sociology

Immigration and the second-generation; race/ ethnic relations and coalition-building; ethnic organizations/ politics in Koreatown; gender, migration and families; transnationalism

Erin Aeran Chung

Northwestern University

Race and ethnicity in Japan; Korean diasporic politics; Asian American politics; comparative racial politics; citizenship theory

Haeng-ja Chung

Colorado College

Transnational migration; (Post-) Colonialism; sex work; emotional labor

Clarissa Clo'

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dept. of Romance Languages

Italian diasporas; nation and subject formation; migration, colonialism, fascism, and resistance struggles; cultural texts

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University

Mexican migration to the United States (especially from the state of Oaxaca), development in migrant-sending areas, and nutrition. 

David Cook-Martín

Grinnell College Migration and nationality policy in Southern Europe, North America, and South America

Wayne Cornelius

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Mexican migration to the U.S.; Third World immigration to Japan and Spain; comparative studies of immigration policies; formation of general public attitudes toward immigration

Cynthia Cranford 

York University (Toronto), School of Social Sciences, Liberal and Professional Studies

Immigrant labor, gender and labor organizing in the U.S and Canada

Dafney Blanca Dabach

UC Berkeley, School of Education

Utilization of Mexican and Japanese workers in California in the 1920s

Philippe De Bruycker

Free Brussels University (Belgium), Law Faculty and the Institute for European Studies

New European migration and asylum policy, in particular the European institutional framework and the status of third country nationals in Europe

Hector Delgado

UC Irvine, Social Sciences

Impacts of immigration on labor unionization in the United States

Jason De Fay

UC San Diego, Dept. of Sociology

Social movements and culture; international migration; race and ethnicity; gender

Tracey M. Derwing

University of Alberta (Canada), Dept. of Educational Psychology, Co-Director, The Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration

Native speaker/non-native speaker communicative success; pronunciation and fluency; refugee studies

Louis DeSipio

UC Irvine, Dept. of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies Program

U.S. naturalization; political incorporation of naturalized citizens; political behavior of naturalized citizens; Latino politics

Josh DeWind

International Migration Program, Social Science Research Council

History of migration studies; immigrant education; migration and human rights; migration and development

Gunther Dietz

Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación, Universidad Veracruzana

Migrant communities and host civil society in Spain and Mexico; identity politics and ethnicity; intercultural and inter-religious
education, discrimination and anti-discrimination politics in Spain and Mexico

Herbert Dittgen

University of Mainz (Germany), Dept. of International Relations

Comparative studies of immigration policies; irregular migration in Europe and the U.S.; theories of international migration

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

Local integration of refugees in countries of first asylum; the role of schools in the reception of immigrants and refugees; African immigrants and refugees in Boston and Toronto

Travis Du Bry

 

UC Riverside, Dept. of Anthropology

Rural communities; agribusiness; farmworkers; peasants; immigration and transnationalism; Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant communities in Southern California

Francisco Javier Durán Ruiz

Universidad de Granada (Spain), Facultad de Derecho, Departamento de Derecho Administrativo

Immigration policy in Spain and EU; legal and administrative situation of foreigners in Spain

Fatima El-Tayeb

University of California San Diego, Department of Literature

19th and 20th Century European history, (Trans)National Identities, African Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Minorities in Europe

David W. Engstrom

San Diego State University, School of Social Work

U.S. policy toward Cuban refugees; refugee assistance for torture survivors; female migrant trafficking

Steven Erie

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Immigrants and ethnicity in U.S. urban politics

Xavier Escandell

UC San Diego - Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

Immigration and transnational studies; race/ethnic studies; social demography; social psychology; organizations and institutions; research methods; the European Union

Cristina Escobar

alternate e-mail

Temple University, Latin American Studies Center

Latin American citizenship; political participation; Latino communities in the U.S.; dual citizenship in the Americas

Agustin Escobar-Latapi

CIESAS-Occidente (México), Dept. of Sociology

Economic determinants and consequences of Mexican migration to the United States

Thomas Espenshade

Princeton University, Dept. of Sociology

International migration of highly skilled/professional workers

Yen Espiritu

UC San Diego, Dept. of Ethnic Studies

Gender; sociocultural assimilation among Filipino and Vietnamese immigrants; war and refugee studies

Marilyn Espitia

Dept. of Sociology, University of Houston

 

Luis Estrada

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Campaigns, surveys and Mexican electorate behavior

Lieba Faier

alternate email

UC San Diego - Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

Filipina/o migrants in Japan; gender and sexuality; political economy

Adrian Favell

UC Los Angeles, Dept. of Sociology

Migration in Western Europe; multiculturalism; integration of immigrants; EU immigration policy; foreign professionals within the EU

Miriam Feldblum

California Institute of Technology

Comparative citizenship policies; first and second generation scientists and engineers in the U.S.; international migration organizations as service providers and policy setters

Karen Ferree

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Voters and parties in the Rainbow Nation: Race and elections in the new South Africa

Joel S. Fetzer

Pepperdine University, Social Science Division

Islam and public attitudes toward immigration in the U.S. and Western Europe

David Fitzgerald

UC Los Angeles, Dept. of Sociology

International migration, nationalism, transnationalism, Mexican emigration
policy and migrant sending communities

Nadia Flores

University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, Dept. of Sociology

International migration from Mexico to the U.S.; social networks; economic sociology and demography

Nancy Foner

Baruch College, School of Public Affairs, City University of New York, CUNY

Immigration to New York; West Indian migration; race; gender

Michelle Foster

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

International refugee law; international human rights law

Jon Fox

University of Bristol, Department of Sociology

International migration; transnationalism; ethnic affinity migration; nationalism

Gary Freeman

University of Texas, Department of Government

Politics of immigration control in Western Europe and the United States; naturalization of recent immigrants in Texas

H. Richard Friman

Marquette University, Dept. of Political Science

Politicization of immigrant crime in advanced industrial countries; comparative immigration policy in Japan, Germany and the United States; role of global cities in integrating diverse migration streams; organized crime and migrant smuggling and trafficking into Japan

Takashi Fujitani

UC San Diego, Dept. of History

Japanese nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism (especially in Korea)

Donna R. Gabaccia
alternate e-mail

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dept. of History

Comparative history of migration to the U.S.; gender; labor; material culture; Italian-Americans

Manuel García y Griego

Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University of New Mexico

Historical evolution of U.S. immigration policy; measuring stocks and flows of Mexican migrants to the United States

Rodolfo García Zamora

Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico)

Mexican migration; remittances; economic development

Steve Garner

School of Sociology
University of the West of England
Coldharbour Lane
Frenchay
BRISTOL

Sociology of racism, particularly the intersections between racialised, gendered and classed identities, whiteness, and immigration.

Yvonne Aimé Gastélum

Harvard University

Political theory; liberal democratic theory and citizenship, and challenges posed by immigration, boundary/migration systems and transnational borderlands; nationalism, human rights, the politics of race and ethnicity, and border regions.

Alec Ian Gershberg

Milano School of Management & Urban Policy New School University

Sociopolitical life of immigrants to the United States, immigration and ethnic diversity in New York, immigrant service organizations, transnational dynamics

Clark C. Gibson

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Politics of development, democracy and the environment in Africa, Central and South America, and the United States

Terri Givens

University of Texas, Austin Government Dept

Comparative immigration policy; race and immigration policy in Western Europe; radical right parties

Nathaniel H. Goetz "Nate"

UC San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

Historical analysis of forced migration; internally displaced persons; protracted refugee situations; role of refugee as transnational actor; human smuggling; refugee resettlement

Luin Goldring

York University (Toronto), Dept. of Sociology

Political participation of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.; Latin American immigrants in Toronto, Canada; citizenship; transnationalisms; non-status people (sans papiers) in Canada

Mercedes González de la Rocha

CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social)-Occidente (Mexico)

Gender roles in Mexican migration to the United States; migration and the household economy

Victor Greene

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of History

Immigrant assimilation process as expressed in popular ethnic arts, especially music, song, theatre, and painting

Luis Guarnizo 

UC Davis, Dept. of Human and Community Development  

Formation of transnational communities in immigrant-sending and receiving countries; immigrants as political actors in sending and receiving countries

Amy Gurowitz

UC Berkeley, Dept. of Political Science

Questions of state and national identity; international norms and immigrant rights, ethics and immigration/citizenship

David Gutiérrez

UC San Diego, Dept. of History

History of Mexican immigration and relations between immigrants and Mexican Americans

Zoltan L. Hajnal

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

Racial and ethnic politics; urban politics; public policy and political behavior; impact of black mayoral leadership on white racial attitudes and voting behavior; minority representation in direct democracy

Kenji Hakuta

Stanford University School of Education

Long-term analysis of Spanish language skills, use, and attrition in Bay Area Latino students from different immigration backgrounds; individual and age-related differences in second language learning

Lisa M. Haley

 

International migration; ethnic conflict; domestic and international policy; immigration; national identity; concepts of citizenship and human rights

Daphne Halkias

Immigration Research Project
Hellenic American University
Athens, Greece


Immigrant entrepreneurship in the Balkan/Eastern Mediterranean region and economic and social factors influencing female immigrant entrepreneurship.

Kimberly Hamilton

Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source

Comparative migration policy; government and civil society organizations; migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and integration challenges in the European context

Gordon Hanson

UC San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Immigration and trade in the U.S. and México; labor market consequences of globalization; multinational enterprises

Paul A. Harris

Augusta State University, Dept. of Political Science

Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewish migration and resettlement to Germany since 1990; ethnic German migration from the former Soviet Union to Germany

Ulf Hedetoft

Aalborg University (Denmark), Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID)

European nationalism and national mentality in comparative and intercultural perspective; cultural encounters, migration and ethnic relations; political cultures and political integration in contemporary Europe and North America; political and cultural anthropology; transatlantic relations; globalization

Jenna L. Hennebry

University of Western Ontario (Canada), Dept. of Sociology

International temporary migration; transnationalism, globalization and development; international communication; Mexican temporary migration in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers and American Guestworker Programs

Rubén Hérnández-León

Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores - México, D.F.

New destinations of Mexican immigration in the U.S.; urban and metropolitan origins of Mexico-U.S. migration; the social and political management of the U.S.-Mexico border; youth issues; urban poverty in Mexico

Manuel Herrera

Universidad de Granada, Spain

The role of the Spanish states and U.S. civil society in international
migration

Doris Herwig

UC San Diego, Dept. of Literature

Housing and settlement patterns of Third World immigrants in Germany

Lawrence Herzog

San Diego State University, School of Public Administration and Urban Studies

Migration, urbanization, and infrastructure development in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

Josiah McC. Heyman

University of Texas at El Paso, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology

U.S.-México border; immigration and state power; law enforcement

Jennifer S. Hirsch

Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of International Health

Migration, gender, sexuality, and reproductive health; migration and infectious diseases; the applications of anthropological theory and methods in public health research

Charles Hirschman

University of Washington, Department of Sociology

Demography and ecology; immigration and ethnicity; social stratification and mobility; Southeast Asia

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

University of Michigan, Dept. of History and Dept. of American Cultures

Social and cultural history of the Caribbean and its diasporas, especially the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba and New York

James F. Hollifield

Southern Methodist University, Department of Political Science

Political economy of immigration in France, Germany, and the United States

Seth M. Holmes

Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Indigenous Mexican migration and diaspora in the Western U.S., focusing on social suffering, violence, and migrant health services.

James Holston

UC San Diego, Dept. of Anthropology

Cities, citizenship, and democracy in Brazil and the United States

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

University of Southern California, Dept. of Sociology

Gender issues in Mexican migration to the United States

Bonnie Honig

Northwestern University, Dept. of Political Science

Political thought of Thomas Jefferson; constitutional democracy

Alan Houston

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

Political theory, with an emphasis on liberal, republican, and democratic ideas

Uwe Hunger

University of Muenster (Germany), Institute for Political Science

Interrelationships among transnational migration, social network formation, and socio-economic development in India

Valerie Hunt

Southern Methodist University

Political responses to immigration in industrialized countries

Maria de la Luz Ibarra

Assistant Professor of Sociology, San Diego State University

Labor market incorporation of female Mexican immigrant service workers

Jonathan Xavier Inda

UC Santa Barbara, Dept. of Chicano Studies

Anthropology of globalization; culture, power, and the body; governmentality and biopolitics; migrants and diasporas; race, science, and medicine

Robyn Iredale

University of Wollongong, School of Geosciences (Australia), Dept. of Science, and Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies

International migration especially skilled migration; social transformation in the Asia Pacific; human resources development and issues of skill transfer; women in migration; refugees; education and training

Patrick Ireland

Department of Social Sciences
Illinois Institute of Technology
Siegel Hall 116A
3301 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60616  U.S.A.

Migration policies and ethnic relations, migrant and cross-border health issues

Natasha Iskander

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Anthropology

Migration; economic development; impact of migration on sending countries; migration and government policy; identity; transnationalism; Mexico; Morocco

Eunice Akemi Ishikawa

Department of International Culture
Shizuoka University of Art and Culture (Japan)


Research interest: Japanese-Brazilian immigration to Japan

Antonio Izquierdo

University of Coruña (Spain), Depts. of Sociology and Political Science

Migratory policy and irregular migration in Spain

David Jacobson

Arizona State University, Dept. of Sociology

Citizenship and membership, primarily in Western Europe and the United States; international human rights law and immigration; international institutions; European citizenship; national and transnational communities

Irena Jasikova

Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Department of Geography, Faculty of Science

Migration of highly skilled people in Europe (within European Union and between EU and associated countries on the eastern border of the EU); East-West migration in general; immigration policy of European countries and their impact on both sending and receiving countries

David Jeffrey

MIT, Department of Political Science

Electoral participation by immigrants in Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, and Norway

Michael Jones-Correa

Cornell University, Department of Government

Immigrant political incorporation; immigrants and inter-ethnic relations in the United States; immigrants in urban and suburban politics