Kathryn (Kathy) Kopinak
Senior Fellow
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla , California 92093-0548
In residence January 1 – June 30.
E-mail: kopinak@uwo.ca
Curriculum Vitae
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Research Expertise:
International Migration, Globalization, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Sociology of the Environment, Gender and Development, Sociology of Work and Occupations
Geographical Regions of Specialization:
Mexico, U.S.-Mexican Border, Canada-U.S. Border, Canada, North American Great Lakes Region
Current Project:
The Complementary Relationship Between International Migration and Mexican Maquiladora Employment
Selected Publications:
Editor and contributor to The Social Costs of Urban Growth in Northern Mexico , (Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2004).
Desert Capitalism . Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1996.
“Hacia una Teoría de Maquiladoras Mexicanas que considere los Impactos al Ambiente” (co-authored with Saúl Guzmán García) forthcoming in Maquiladoras and the Environment edited by Claudia Schatan and Jorge Carrillo, published by CEPAL.
“Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models” Papeles de Población. 9 (37) 2003: 219-242.
“Maquiladora Industrialization of the Baja California Peninsula : the coexistence of thick and thin globalization with economic regionalism” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (27) 2, 2003: 319-336.
Some of these and other publications can be found on line at http://publish.uwo.ca/~kopinak/recentpub.html
Academic Background:
Kathy received her BA and MA in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario and her Ph. D. from York University . She is a Canadian Sociologist who began formal research on northern Mexico in the early eighties when North America ’s old industrial heartland started to dramatically transfer production to the US-Mexico borderlands. Research in the last two decades has included the study of the labor process in Mexican maquiladora industries, the gendered division of labor in northern Mexico , environmental impacts of Mexican industrialization, the relationship between maquiladora employment and migration, and the influence of Mexican export industries on the growth and character of regional and global economies. She has received research grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and a teaching award from the Ontario Council of University Faculty Associations.
