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 |
| Persis M. Karim | San Jose State University, Dept. of English | Exile studies and Iranian diaspora studies |
| David Karjanen | UC San Diego -- Center for Comparative Immigration Studies | Immigrant/migrant labor force participation, political mobilization, and access to health care; US/Mexico; Eastern/Western Europe |
| Philip Kasinitz | City University of New York, Graduate Center, Dept. of Sociology | Ethnicity; incorporation; second generation; comparative urban immigration (i.e. NY, LA, Miami, etc.); Caribbean immigration politics; immigration and urban neighborhoods; New York City |
| Alan Kessler | University of Texas, Department of Government | Determinants of U.S. immigration policy-making |
| Nadia Kim | Dept. of Sociology, Brandeis University | Women and migration, immigration and race/ethnicity, Asian and Asian American studies. |
| Richard Sookjoo Kim | University of Michigan, Dept. of History | 20th century United States history; Asian American history; immigration history; diaspora and transnational studies; nationalism; race and ethnicity |
| Diane E. King | UC San Diego, Dept. of Anthropology | Transnationalism, diasporas, migration, refugees; identity, gender, ethnicity, international development, post-coloniality; Southwest Asia, Middle East, Kurdish Studies |
| Jytte Klausen | Brandeis University Department of Politics |
Political movements among European Muslims; relationship between Muslim faith communities and national/local governments. |
| Harlan Koff | Assistant Professeur en Politologie La Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l’Education l'Université de Luxembourg |
Integration politics; political ideologies; immigration in Europe; political economy of immigration; nationalism and extremism; social movements; comparative social policy |
| Akihiro Koido | Hitotsubashi University, Japan | U.S. border enforcement and recent migration from southern Mexico to Tijuana |
| Atsushi Kondo | Kyushu Sangyo University (Fukuoka, Japan), Dept. of Economics | Immigration policy; citizenship |
| Ruud Koopmans | Vrije Universiteir (The Netherlands) | Citizenship and integration policies; xenophobia and the extreme right; ethnic mobilization, claims-making, and political participation; Germany and comparative European perspectives |
| Kathryn Kopinak | University of Western Ontario, Dept. of Sociology | International migration and maquiladora employment in Mexico |
| Stepanika (Stephanie) Korytova | University of Pittsburgh, University Center for International Studies | Modern Atlantic world; ethnicity; Slavic diasporas; transnationalism; internationalism; nationalism; Modern Central Europe; gender issues; cultural studies |
| Thad Kousser | UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science | Legislative politics, policymaking, and political regulation; term limits; reapportionment; campaign finance laws; the blanket primary; health care policy; European Parliament elections |
| Fred Krissman | Washington State University | Immigrant labor, political assimilation of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the U.S. |
| Yasuo Kuwahara | Professor of Economics and President, Dokkyo University, Japan | The role of foreign workers in the Japanese and U.S. economies; corporate trainee programs for foreign workers |
| David Kyle | UC Davis, Dept. of Sociology | Migrant smuggling across borders in global context; cross-cultural brokering; transnational migration |
| Gallya Lahav | State University of New York, Stony Brook |
International migration and European integration |
| Pei-Chia Lan | National Taiwan University | Work and gender; labor migration in Asia |
| Anna O. Law | DePaul University, Dept. of Political Science | United States immigration policy and law; race and ethnicity in US politics; immigration in American political development |
| Fred Lazin | Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) | Israel's social integration policies for Russian and Ethiopian immigrants; "Freedom of Choice" (for Soviet Jews) among American Jewish Organizations |
| Alison Lee | University of California-Riverside | Ecological conservation and development programs in rural areas, the impact of neoliberal policies and migration in rural communities, Mexican immigrant communities in the US Northeast, new migrant sending areas in southern Mexico |
| Catherine Y. Lee | University of Michigan School of Public Health, Health Management and Policy | Race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration; comparative and historical sociology; Asian Americans; history of Chinese and Japanese immigrants and nation-building in the U.S. |
| Jennifer Lee | UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology | Race and ethnic relations; black/immigrant competition; employer hiring practices; immigrant entrepreneurship; interracial couples; multiracial adults; immigrant incorporation and mobility |
| Sae-Jae Lee |
Kumoh National University, South Korea | Language skills, education, and religion in Korean Immigration to the U.S.² |
| Peggy Levitt | Wellesley College, Dept. of Sociology | Transnational migration and communities; religious and political transnationalism; Dominican immigrants in the U.S. |
| Emmanuelle Le Texier | Université de Liège (Belgium), Centre d’Etudes de l’Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM) | Exclusion and participation in the Barrio |
| Peggy Levitt | Wellesley College, Dept. of Sociology | Transnational migration and communities; religious and political transnationalism; Dominican immigrants in the U.S. |
| Jessa M. Lewis | Center on Wisconsin Stategy (Madison, Wisc.) | Mexican migration to the United States; migration and environmental issues. |
| Pei-te Lien | University of Utah, Dept. of Political Science and Ethnic Studies Program | Asian American politics and opinion; racial and ethnic political behavior; immigrant political incorporation; transnationalism and Chinese Americans |
| Tiffany Lightbourn | Vassar College, Dept. of Psychology | Asylum claim decisions; immigration to the U.S. |
| David R. Lighthall | Relational Culture Institute in Fresno | Environmental policy and theory; agricultural health and safety; pesticide hazards; sustainable agriculture; rural social justice; water resources |
| Nelson Lim | Associate Social Scientist, RAND Corporation | Transnational worker migration in East Asia (South Korea, Japan); expansion of transnational worker rights |
| Timothy C. Lim | California State University, Los Angeles, Dept. of Political Science | International migration from the Asia-Pacific region to South Korea |
| Wolf J. Linder | University of Bern (Switzerland), Dept. of Political Science | Democracy and multicultural conflict; migration and developing countries |
| April Linton | UC San Diego, Dept. of Sociology | International migration; sociology of language; globalization and development |
| Gil Loescher | International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) | Refugee movements; migration and international security; refugee protection in regions of origin; the UNHCR and its role in world politics; migrant trafficking as a new security issue |
| Magnus Lofstrom | University of Texas at Dallas, School of Social Sciences | Self-employment; welfare; labor market performance and assimilation; education |
| James Loucky | Western Washington University, Dept. of Anthropology | Central American immigrant communities in the U.S. and Canada, immigrant children, cultural factors in refugee policy |
| Vivian Shuh Ming Louie | Harvard University, School of Education | Immigration and education; class, family and neighborhood effects; Latino and Asian Americans; immigrants and race relations |
| Lisa Lowe | UC San Diego, Dept. of Literature | Asian immigration to the West |
| B. Lindsay Lowell | Pew Hispanic Center | Latino immigrants in the United States; demand for high-skilled immigrants in the U.S. economy |
| Fernando Lozano | UC San Diego -- Center for U.S Mexican Studies, and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies | Mexican migration to the United States; remittances flow from migrants workers in the US; new patterns of internal and international Mexican migration; the role of migrant remittances in the local and regional development in Mexico |
| Richard Luther | University of Leeds (United Kingdom), Dept. of Political Science | Politics of immigration and the anti-immigrant Freedom Party in Austria |
| Kelly Lytle Hernández | University of California at Los Angeles, Department of History | History of the U.S. Border Patrol; U.S and transnational race relations; race histories; imagined communities |
| Marina G. Maccari | University of Kansas, Dept. of History | Comparative migration history; emigration from and immigration to Italy; post World War II migration policies; migration and international cooperation |
| Andrew MacIntyre | UC San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies | Indonesia as a labor-exporting country |
| Kristen Hill Maher | San Diego State Univ., Dept. of Political Science | Female labor migration; the international maid trade; migrant workers in Southern California's suburban service sector; anti-immigrant and nationalist rhetoric |
| Sami Mahroum | Circa Group Europe | The international mobility of scientists |
| Olga Ivanovna Makhovskaya | The Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Center for International Communication Studies Russian Diasporas: Integration program | Acculturation of Russian emigrant families in Western democracies; comparative socialization of their children in the U.S. and France; educative programs for immigrant children from the FSU; professional migration from the former Soviet Union; post-Soviet female immigration |
| Robert D. Manning | Rochester Institute of Technology, Office of the Provost | Mexican and Caribbean economic development and migration; immigrant entrepreneurship; African American-immigrant relations; immigrant labor market incorporation patterns; NAFTA; immigration to U.S. suburbs; immigrants' use of US financial services, global deregulation of financial services industry |
| Beatriz Manz | UC Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies | Migration of Guatemalans to Mexico and the San Francisco Bay area |
| Enrico Marcelli | University of Massachusetts at Boston | Impacts of immigration on employment, wages, and social service utilization in the U.S. |
| Philip L. Martin | UC Davis, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics | Role of immigrant labor in California’s agricultural sector; U.S. immigration policy; immigration policies of Germany and other Western European countries; international labor migration in East Asia |
| Konane
M. Martínez |
National Latino Research Center California State University San Marcos | Transnational migration; México-U.S.; migrant/immigrant health; women's health; Mixtec communities; farmworker and community health; health care utilization |
| Hiroyuki Matsuzuki | Institute for International Policy Studies (Japan) | Human capital (including education and immigration) for new industries of Japan and the United States; Japan's political reform |
| Francesca Mazzolari | UC San Diego, Dept. of Economics | Changes in dual citizenship laws; naturalization and assimilation |
| Michael McCoyer | Northwestern University, Dept. of History | Immigration and racial formation; Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. |
| Sharon
McGuire alternate e-mail |
University of San Diego | Migration and health experiences of indigenous Oaxacan immigrant women from Mexico in the U.S.; nursing practice toward indigenous immigrants |
| Craig McIntosh | University of California-San Diego | Binational Fertility Effects of Mexico-U.S. Migration |
| Steve McKay | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Filipino seafarers, race, and the global labor market |
| Robert McLaughlin | University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology and School of Law | Immigration; naturalization; US; Native America |
| Everard Meade | UC San Diego, Dept. of History | 20th century Mexican history and U.S. immigration |
| Karmen Medica | University of Primorska, Science & Research Centre, Dept. of Anthropology | Media perspective of emigrant groups from the former Yugoslavia in Slovenia. |
| Cristóbal Mendoza | Universidad de Guadalajara. Departamento de Estudios Regionales-INESER. Centro de Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas | International migration; transnationalism; comparative immigration studies |
| Guillermo Alonso Meneses | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana), Dept. of Population Studies | Risk and vulnerability of the undocumented migrant at the U.S. México border; migration to the U.S. of Indians from central México, immigrant ethnicity in Spain |
| Cecilia Menjivar | Arizona State University, School of Justice Studies | Immigrant and refugee communities; Central Americans in the United States; social networks; gender; religion; family; poverty and inequality; socioeconomic development; Central America |
| Eytan Meyers | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), Dept. of International Relations | International immigration policy (comparative and theoretical aspects); international political economy; research methods |
| Rosa M. Soriano Miras | Universidad de Granada (Spain) | Research Project: Gender differences in the immigration of maquiladora workers |
| Naoya Mitake | Komazawa University (Tokyo, Japan), | Comparative politics; ethnic and language conflict in countries of immigration; multiculturalism in Japan and Western Europe |
| Patricia Moctezuma Yano | Colegio de San Luis Potosí, Programa de Estudios Antropológicos | Immigration and religion among Mexican immigrants in the U.S.;culture and identity; cultural ecology; gender and work |
| Natalia M. Molina | UC San Diego, Ethnic Studies and Urban Studies | Public Health and racialization; comparative ethnicities; Chicano/a studies |
| Jeannette Money | U.C., Davis, Dept. of Political Science | Immigration control; citizenship policies; immigrant electoral participation |
| Stephanie Carol Moore | Internment of Japanese Peruvians in the U.S. during World War II | |
| Hiroshi Motomura | UCLA School of Law |
U.S. immigration law and policy, citizenship and membership, immigrant integration, immigration outside the law |
| Gail Mummert | El Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios Antropológicos | Female and family migration patterns; transnational processes and practices; cultural production and consumption in transnational social fields; migration and rural development; migration and family formation |
| Rainer Muenz | Hamburg Institute of International Economics | European migration; special focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Europ. East-West migration; migration policy |
| Hamid Naficy | Rice University, Dept. of Art and Art History | Exilic and diasporic culture; media and cinema; Iranian cinema and culture |
| Nancy Naples | UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology | Social, cultural and economic impacts of Mexican immigration on "new" receiving communities in the U.S. Mid-West |
| Barry Naughton | UC San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies | Population movements in China |
| Joseph Nevins | Vassar College Department of Geology and Geography | Construction of international boundaries in relation to immigration enforcement; human rights; violence; unauthorized immigrant deaths; US-Mexico border region |
| K. Bruce Newbold | McMaster University (Canada), School of Geography and Geology and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies | Internal migration of Canada and the United States; settlement and adjustment; immigration and health; aging |
| Stephanie Nawyn | University of Southern California, Dept. of Sociology | Faith, the state, and refugee resettlement organization in the United States |
| Nieves Ortega Pérez | Universidad de Granada (Spain), Dept. of Political Science | Political, ethnic and economic determinants of immigration policy in Southern Spain |
| Francisco Oda Angel | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), Dept. of Sociology | Border enforcement in Spain, North Africa, and the European Union |
| Nana
Oishi |
International Christian University Division of Social Sciences Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo | Migration; gender; globalization |
| Ellen Oxfeld | Middlebury College, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology | Chinese community in Calcutta, India; Indian Chinese immigrants in Canada; concepts of morality and status in the daily lives of rural Chinese |
| Connie Oxford | University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Sociology | Gender and migration; asylum and refugee studies |
| Juan Vicente Palerm | University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Anthropology | Mexican migrants in rural California communities |
| Lawrence Palinkas | UC San Diego, Dept. of Preventive and Family Medicine | Medical anthropology; health care needs of immigrants and refugees in San Diego County |
| Ercole Parini | University of Calabria (Italy) | Impacts of technological innovation on the demand for immigrant labor in Italy and the U.S. |
| Edward Park | Loyola Marymount University, Asian Pacific American Studies Program | Immigration policy; race relations; urban studies; economic sociology; Asian Americans |
| John Park | University of Texas, Center for Asian American Studies | Immigration law; constitutional law; Asian American history; race theory; Anglo-American political theory |
| Kyeyoung Park | UC Los Angeles, Dept. of Anthropology and Asian American Studies | Theories of culture and issues of identity; forms of social inequality, (e.g., race, class, and gender); migration/diaspora |
| Lisa Sun-He Park | UC San Diego, Department of Ethnic Studies | Asian American studies; globalization and citizenship; qualitative field methods; race, class, and gender; immigrant health care; welfare and immigration policy; sociology of work and labor |
| Jeffrey
Passel |
Pew Hispanic Center |
Hispanic population of the United States,
demography of immigrants and their integration and impact on the U.S. |
| Rhacel Salazar Parrenas | UC Davis, Dept. of Asian American Studies | Gender and migration with a particular focus on the Philippines; politics of reproductive labor and women's migratory experiences under globalization; children of migrant workers left behind in the Philippines; gender and child care in transnational families |
| Manuel Pastor | University of Arizona, Department of Spanish and Portuguese | Political economy of immigration in California |
| David Pedersen | UC San Diego, Dept. of Anthropology (starting Fall 2005) | Transnational migrant life, remittance circulation, Latin America, El Salvador, United States |
| David Naguib Pellow | UC San Diego, Dept. of Ethnic Studies | Environmental sociology and justice; race and ethnicity; globalization; immigration; social movements; work and occupations |
| Patricia Pessar | Yale University, Director, Global Migration Project | Gender roles and inequalities in migration to the United States from the Caribbean and Central America |
| Sheila Pickwell | UC San Diego, Dept. of Preventive and Family Medicine | Health care needs of Southeast Asian refugees in San Diego |
| Alejandro Portes | Princeton University, Dept. of Sociology | Immigration; economic sociology; comparative development; Third World urbanization |
| Démian Pritchard | Southern Connecticut State University | Chicana/Chicano literature (and film); border studies/literatures; cultural studies; women's studies (U.S. Latina/o immigration histories and literatures, especially Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican/Chicana/o) |
| Desirée Baolian Qin-Hilliard | Teachers College, Columbia University | Immigration and education; immigrant families and adolescent development; psychological adjustment of immigrant students |
| Vicente Rafael | UC San Diego, Dept. of Communication | Filipina immigrants as domestic service workers in Hong Kong and Singapore |
| Karthick Ramakrishnan | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | Immigrant political participation; civic voluntarism; public opinion; urban politics |
| Daniel Ramirez | Duke University | U.S. Latino and Latin American religious history; religious musical cultural practice in the U.S.-México borderlands; Latino religion and public life |
| James Rauch | UC San Diego, Dept. of Economics | International trade through ethnic networks |
| Gaspar Real Cabello | Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (México) | Social, cultural, political, and economical effects of migration from the state of Querétaro, México to the U.S. in the era of globalization |
| Jeffrey Reitz | University of Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Sociology | Impact of immigration policy and other host society institutions on immigrant economic attainment and socio-cultural integration; comparative analysis of Canada, the United States, and Australia |
| Ana María (May) Relaño Pastor | Visiting Assistant Professor/Director HLP Spanish and Portuguese Department University of Arizona |
A comparative study of everyday communication problems of Latino immigrants in the U.S. border region and North African immigrants in Andalusia, Spain |
| Belinda I. Reyes | University of California, Merced, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Art | Social and economic progress of immigrants and their descendants, community integration, migration patterns, immigration policy, naturalization, racial and ethnic populations, social and economic progress |
| Rafael Reyes-Ruiz | Oberlin College, Dept. of Anthropology | Latino immigrants in Japan |
| Clark Winton Reynolds | Stanford University, Institute for International Studies | Economic development (international trade and finance); economic history (employment and migration); problems of differential adjustment to economic liberalization among regional, national, and subnational groups in Latin America and China |
| Yvonne Rieker | University of Muenster (Germany), Dept. of Political Science | Comparative history of Italian migration in western Europe; gender; identity; sociocultural acculturation processes, immigration policies, labour migration |
| Gaspar Rivera Salgado | USC, Dept. of Sociology | Political organization of Mexican indigenous migrants to California |
| Robyn Rodriguez | UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology | The labor brokering state: The global production of Philippine citizen-workers |
| Dan-Olof Rooth | Kalmar University College (Sweden), Dept. of Economics/BBS | Labor market integration of immigrants and their descendants; educational attainment, language skills, informal networks, and labor market outcomes for refugee immigrants living in Sweden |
| Esperanza Roquero |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain | Immigrant labor market in Spain |
| Marc R. Rosenblum | University of New Orleans, Dept. of Political Science | U.S. immigration and refugee policy-making; immigration and U.S.-Latin American relations; immigration and international relations theory |
| Daniel Rothenberg | DePaul University College of Law | Mexican migration to the United States; economic development and democratization; human rights, truth commissions, and the social impact of state terror and violence; transitional justice issues, particularly truth commissions, amnesty laws, tribunals and reparations; labor migration, moral panics, genocide and social responses to institutionalized violence |
| Chris Rudolph | School of International Service American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20016-8071 |
Determinants of migration policy in advanced industrial states; wider implications of migration on issues of international relations |
| Martin Ruhs | Oxford University - Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) | Economics and ethics of labour immigration policy |
| Olivia Ruiz Marrujo | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. (Tijuana, México) | Risk and international migration; Central American immigration on the México-Guatemala border |
| Ruben G. Rumbaut | UC Irvine, Dept. of Sociology | Immigrant children and transitions into adulthood; intergenerational differences in adaptation; bilingualism and language loss; ethnic identity; citizenship and national membership; infant health and mortality; fertility; socioeconomic mobility and inequality; educational achievement; modes of acculturation |
| Russell Rumberger | UC-Santa Barbara, Linguistic Minority Research Center | Educational performance of immigrant children in California |
| Kamal Sadiq | UC Irvine, Dept. of Political Science | Illegal immigration; citizenship; globalization; security; Asia |
| Leland Saito | University of Southern California, Sociology Dept. and Program in American Studies and Ethnicity | Asian American and Latino studies; urban politics; redistricting; economic redevelopment policies |
| Idean Salehyan | Department of Political Science University of North Texas |
Non-governmental organizations and U.S. refugee policy; political economy of international migration; immigration and U.S. foreign policy |
| George Sanchez | University of Southern California, Dept. of History | History of Los Angeles, the American West, and Mexican Americans |
| Nobuo Sasaki | Chuo University (Japan), School of Economics | The popular initiative process in California |
| Jennifer Saunders | Emory University Graduate Division of Religion | Transnational Hinduism; narrative and migration; religion and migration; Hinduism in the U.S.; Hindu families |
| Kenneth Scheve | Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Department of Political Science | Political economy of trade, immigration, and macroeconomic policymaking; comparative political behavior; and quantitative methods in political science |
| Nina Glick Schiller | University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Anthropology | Ethnicity and nationalism; race, culture, and power; every-day forms of nation-state formation; transnational migration; urban anthropology; transnational processes and globalization; poverty; medical anthropology; the Caribbean; United States; Haiti |
| Hans-Joachim Schuetz | University of Rostock (Germany) | Constitutional law |
| Haley
Hinda Seif alternate e-mail |
UC Davis, Dept. of Anthropology | Contesting Mexican immigrant illegalization: California state legislative politics after Proposition 187 |
| Nayan Shah | UC San Diego, Dept. of History | Cultural meanings and political and administrative practices that alternately define and unsettle categories of race and sexuality in Asian migrations along the Pacific rim of North America |
| Shalini Shankar | New York University | South Asian-American teenagers; youth culture; consumption and popular culture; language use; education and social reproduction |
| Wayne Simpson | University of Manitoba Department of Economics | Immigrant integration in Canada, immigrant health status and labor market outcomes, retirement prospects of immigrants |
| Audrey Singer | The Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy | Economic, social and political incorporation of immigrants; immigrant naturalization and citizenship; the impact of welfare reform on immigrant communities and undocumented Mexican migration; new immigrant gateways in the United States |
| Suzanne Sinke | Florida State University, Dept. of History | Connections of gender and migration, especially in U.S. history; transnational marriage |
| John Skrentny | UC San Diego, Dept. of Sociology | Affirmative action, immigration, and civil rights in the U.S.; history of U.S. immigration policy; East Asian immigration policies, especially Korea |
| Betty Elaine Smith | Eastern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology and Geography | Ecuador Spain migration |
| Robert Smith | Associate Professor School of Public Affairs Baruch College/CUNY One Bernard Baruch Way, Box D-0901 New York, NY 10010 |
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| Rosa María Soriano Miras |
Universidad de Granada, Spain | Female migrants in Almería, Spain and San Diego, California |
| Levent Soysal |
Kadir Has University (Turkey), Dept. of Radio, Television, and Cinema | Ethnography of international migrant youth in Berlin |
| David Spener | Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Trinity University |
Migrant smuggling in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands |
| Lynn Stephen | University of Oregon, Dept. of Anthropology | Labor market participation of Mexican migrants to Oregon |
| Holk
Stobbe |
University of Goettingen, Center for European and North American Studies | Undocumented migration in the United States and Germany: A comparative analysis |
| Tom T. Stritikus | University of Washington, College of Education | Second language development; ESL/bilingual education; literacy education policy as it relates to bilingual students |
| Kaare Strom | UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science | Political parties; coalition theory; European politics; institutions of parliamentary democracy |
| Angela C. Stuesse | University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Anthropology | Social movements; race; globalization; migration; citizenship; borderlands; U.S. south; Latin America |
| Richard Sutch | UC Riverside, Dept. of Economics | Economic history; economic and demographic consequences of immigration to the U.S. |
| Sebastian Sunderhaus | Africa and Middle East Dept., Misereor (Germany) | Regularization of undocumented migrants; migration and development in Africa. |
| Kazuko Suzuki | Columbia University, Dept. of Sociology | Nation-states and immigrant adaptation; the Korean diaspora in Japan and the United States |
| Yukari Takai | Aichi Kenritsu University (Japan) | Migration history in North America; gender; work; border-crossing; French Canadians; Asian/Americans |
| Daniela
Tarnovschi alternate e-mail |
Babes-Bolyai University Cluj (Romania) Dept. of Sociology | Mass media's impact on ethnic identity construction; ethnic relations; discrimination |
| Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak | New College Florida, Division of Social Sciences | State building, national identity and immigration politics in Japan; global cities and migration; non-governmental organizations and transnational flows |
| Eiko
R. Thielemann |
London School of Economics, UK | Comparative politics, public policy, international institutions, European Union, asylum and immigration policy |
| Elaine R. Thomas | University of Chicago, Social Sciences Collegiate Division | Changing conceptions of citizenship and nationality in France and Britain; political determinants of citizenship and integration policy |
| Daniel Tichenor | Rutgers University, Dept. of Political Science | immigrant poltical integration; civil liberties; admissions and citizenship policies in liberal democracies |
| Lydia Tiede | UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science | Immigration lawyer, specializing in battered immigrant women, asylum seekers, and immigrants who are in detention. |
| Ashley Timmer | Social Science Research Council (SSRC) | The impact of income distribution shifts on mass migrations from Europe to the United States, 1860-1930 |
| Peter Timmer | UC San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies | International labor migration and economic development |
| Jeffrey M. Togman | Seton Hall University, Dept. of Political Science | Immigrant entry policies ofadvanced industrialized nations; immigrant contributions to U.S. urban renewal |
| Paz Trigueros | Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, México; Departamento de Sociologia | Mexican immigration and labor markets in the US |
| Mimi Tsankov | Law Offices of Mimi Tsankov | U.S. and European immigration laws and their effect on healthcare worker migration; impact of European Union membership on the flow of migrants from Eastern European countries; comparative evaluation of immigration asylum processing systems and streamlining of the U.S. system |
| Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda | UC San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies | Migration and ethnicity; transnationalism and globalization; Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migrants in Japan; immigration to Japan |
| Cristena Turner | UC San Diego, Dept. of Sociology | Labor and globalization in Japan; field research methods |
| Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky | The CUNY Graduate Center | International migration, particularly recent migration to New York; the working poor; the social construction of identity, race and ethnic relations; the role of space and place in the migration experience |
| Zulema Valdez | University of Michigan, National Poverty Research Center | Economic sociology; race, ethnicity and immigration; urban sociology |
| Kivanç Ulusoy | Center for European Studies Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey |
International relations; diplomacy; international politics |
| Abel Valenzuela | UC Los Angeles, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty | Role of immigrant day laborers in the southern California economy |
| Ulrik Vangstrup | Director of MODITEC (Centro de Diseño, Moda y Tecnología Aplicada al Setor Textil y Confección A.C.) | Industrial development and its impact on international and national migration in Mexico, business development services in Mexico |
| Monica Varsanyi |
School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University |
Research interest: Local (city, county, state) policy initiatives concerning unauthorized residents; tensions between these local policies and the federal government's role in regulating borders, immigration, and citizenship policy. |
| Olga Vásquez | UC San Diego, Dept. of Communication | Bilingual communication and education in U.S. immigrant communities |
| Theresa Alfaro Velcamp | Sonoma State University, History Department |
Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico, Mexican Immigration Policy |
| Carlos Vélez Ibañez | UC-Riverside, Department of Anthropology | Education of immigrant children; socially viable communities; the role of women in politics; cultural identity; political economy of border life; economic survival; Mexican and Mexican-American populations |
| Pasquale Verdicchio | UC San Diego, Dept. of Literature | North African immigrants in Italy |
| Steven Vertovec | University of Oxford (UK), Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology | Migration, transnationalism and diasporas; multiculturalism |
| Anahi Viladrich | Hunter College of the City University of New York | Immigrants, health care access, and labor markets; racial and ethnic representations of immigrants; immigrant social networks; Argentinians in New York City |
| Diego Alejandro Von Vacano | Vassar College | Ethics of immigration policy; Latina/o transnational identity; multicultural citizenship; immigrant education |
| Roger Waldinger | UC Los Angeles, Dept. of Sociology | Economic interations between immigrants and U.S.-born minorities in the U.S.; intergenerational socioeconomic mobility in the U.S. immigrant-origin population |
| Julie Watts | Pomona College, Dept. of Political Science | Immigrants and labor unions; regional immigration policies; Europe, U.S., and Mexico |
| Michael Weiner | San Diego State University, Dept. of Asian Studies | History of the Japanese diaspora in North America, Latin America, and Asia; continuities and discontinuities in the immigrant and post-immigration communities in these regions; the Japanese business diaspora in contemporary Europe and North America; the impact of the eugenicist movement in Japan during the twentieth century as expressed in social and welfare policies |
| Michael Joseph White | Brown University, Dept. of Sociology | Population distribution; immigrant adaptation; residential segregation; urbanization in developing settings |
| Rainer Winkelmann | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA -- Bonn, Germany) | Comparing New Zealand's and Australia's immigration policies and their impact; Dutch migrants in New Zealand; Methods for modelling the decision to migrate |
| Ofelia Woo Morales | Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico) | Experiences of Mexican immigrants (specifically female immigrants); communities and labor markets involved in international migration |
| Winifred Woodhull | UC San Diego, Dept. of Literature | Francophone world and anglophone/hispanophone/lusophone Africa and the Caribbean |
| Chris Woodruff | UC San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies | Microenterprise development; contract enforcement |
| Biao Xiang | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University St. Hugh¹s College (UK) | Migrations and international political economy; migrations from India and China to Australia and Europe |
| Keiko Yamanaka | UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Social Change | Japan and East Asia; immigrant incorporation; undocumented migration; gendered migration |
| Ferruh Yilmaz | UC San Diego, Dept. of Communication | Immigration (Denmark); ethnification and the media; discourse, hegemony, culture, ethnicity, public opinion, and change |
| Lisa Yoneyama | UC San Diego, Dept. of Literature | Race relations in Japan; Korean writers in Japan |
| Sergio Zendejas | El Colegio de Michoacán, Centro de Estudios Rurales | Relationships between Mexican U.S.-bound migration, political life, and social identity formation in México |
| Ana Celia Zentella | UC San Diego, Dept. of Ethnic Studies | Anthro-political linguistics; linguistic analyses of the race, class, gender and national identities of speakers in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America; languages and linguistic attitudes among Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, and Colombians in New York City and role of Spanish dialects in the construction of regional, trans-global, and pan-Latino identities |
| René M. Zenteno | ITESM Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Centro de Estudios Estratégicos (Mexico) | Economic consequences of international migration and urban migration from México to the United States |
| Aurora Zepeda | UC San Diego | Equity issues in public education, particularly pertaining to immigrant and migrant children, as well as English language learners |
| Elana Zilberg | UC San Diego, Dept. of Communications | Latino and Latin American studies; US-bound Central American and Mexican migration; transnational, border, and urban studies; globalization; violence; consumption; representation; race and ethnicity; youth culture |
| Klaus F. Zimmermann | Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin | Circular migration, migration policy, migration effects on the natives, ethnicity |
| Cristián Zlolniski | Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Texas at Arlington |
Mexican immigrant workers in California’s high-tech industries |
| Aristide Zolberg | New School University, Dept. of Political Science | Politics of international migrations and the consequences of globalization for democracy |