Berkeley
Berkeley
Blum, Carolyn Patty
Clinical Professor
Areas of Expertise: Refugee and asylum law. Central American and
Haitian refugees. Women refugees.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-5980
cpblum@law.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Chavez, Lydia
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Journalism. Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S./Mexico
border
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-9235
lcha@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Enríquez, Laura
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Development in Latin America. Rural sociology.
Political sociology. Social movements.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2502 - 642-4766
enriquez@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Grosfoguel, Ramón
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean migration. Latinos in the U.S. Global
cities. Political economy of the Caribbean and Latin America
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3037
grosfogu@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Manz, Beatriz
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin America Peasantry. Migrations. Social
Movements. Human rights. Political conflict.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-5765, 2-3903
bmanz@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Pérez, Laura
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: U.S. Latina and Latin American women's writing
Chicana/o literature and visual arts. Contemporary cultural theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-1584, 643-0796
leperez@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Sanders, Jerry
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Immigration and border issues. Diaspora communities.
Mexico. Columbia
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-8650
jsanders@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Saragoza, Alex
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Concentration of wealth and power in Mexico.
Mexican migration Transnational ideology and representation
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2519, 643-0796
alexsara@uclink.berkeley.edu
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Davis
Davis
Feenstra, Robert
Professor - Economics
Areas of Expertise: His research interests focus on indigenous peoples,
economic and political development, indigenous transnational migration
to the U.S. and California, and critical theory of cultural pluralism
in Mexico and Latin America. Researcher for the National Institute
of Anthropology and History. Director of the Regional Unit of Popular
Cultures. In the late 1990s, under the sponsorship of the International
Fund for Agricultural Development, he co-authored with UC Berkeley's
professor Alain de Janvry a study on the impact of 1992 agricultural
reforms on peasants and indigenous peoples of Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-0357, 752-3237
svarese@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Grieshop, James
Specialist, Cooperative Extension and Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Research and educational experience with Mexican immigrant
communities in California. In the past 10 years he has completed a number of
collaborative projects with the Mixtec immigrant community in the Central Valley
of California and in Mixtec areas of Mexico. A primary focus of his work has
been on the incorporation of Mixtec into local communities and schools as well
as their ongoing cross-border connections to home communities in Oaxaca. He has
used print and film media to document and communicate the stories of Mixtec immigrant
families in California.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-3008
jigrieshop@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Guarnizo, Luis
Associate Professor-Human and Community Development
Areas of Expertise: studies the processes and effects of U.S.-bound
migration of people from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia
and El Salvador. He has investigated the web of social networks
and power structures that transcend national territorial jurisdictions.
He also looks at how the countries of origin and destination try
to incorporate these migrants as dual citizens and naturalized citizens,
respectively. Guarnizo is co-editor of "Transnationalism From Below"
(1998) and of a special issue on transnational communities of the
journal Ethnic and Racial Studies (1999).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-9805
leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Johnson, Kevin
Professor of Law
Areas of Expertise: Immigration and civil rights. He is author of
"How Did You Get to Be Mexican?" and editor of the anthology of
readings "Mixed Race America: A Critical Reader." Professor of Chicana/o
studies, Johnson is also associate dean for academic affairs at
the law school, where he teaches and publishes on civil rights.
He is a member of the American Bar Association's Coordinating Committee
on Immigration, a director of the Legal Services of Northern California
and a member of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights for the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-0243
krjohnson@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Kyle, David
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Studies human smuggling across the world. In
December, he published "Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks
and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador." He also co-edited a book with
Rey Koslowski titled "Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives,"
which will be out in June. Building on his first book, "Global Human
Smuggling" is the first scholarly book to examine the practice in
various forms in multiple regions of the world, including Mexico-U.S.
smuggling. Recently, Kyle participated in an experts conference
on human smuggling in Bangkok at the invitation of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-9841
sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Ono, Kent
Professor of American Studies
Areas of Expertise: Anti-immigrant sentiment. When people debated
California's Proposition 187 in 1994, the dominant message - even
from those against the proposed law - was anti-immigrant, says UC
Davis American studies scholar Kent Ono. "Even more pointedly, the
messages were anti-Mexican, anti-Latino and anti-Chicano," says
the co-author of "Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration and California's
Propostion 187," published in 2002.
Languages: English
Phone:530-757-1026
kaono@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Smith, Michael P.
Professor Human and Community Development
Areas of Expertise: professor of human and community development
at UC Davis and a faculty associate of the California Studies Center
at UC Berkeley. Expertise: Professor Smith has researched and written
extensively on the political economy of urbanization, racial and
ethnic formation, immigration, globalization and transnationalism.
During the past decade, he has been studying the impact of transnational
economic, socio-cultural and political practices of people and networks
that link cities and regions in California to other communities
and regions across the globe. These sites for research include San
Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Napa, the Silicon Valley and Los
Angeles.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-2243
mpsmith@ucdavis.edu
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Irvine
Irvine
Bean, Frank
Director-Center for Research on Immigration, Population, Public
Policy
Areas of Expertise: He is former Director of the Center for U.S/Mexico
Border and Migration Research at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dr. Bean's current research examines four areas: the intersection
of race/ethnicity in the United States, immigration and U.S. welfare
patterns, migration within and from Mexico, and the effects of immigration
on labor markets.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7497
fbean@uci.edu
Irvine
Chavez, Leo
Professor/Director - Chicano/Latino Studies Program
Areas of Expertise: Immigration, Labor Issues, Latino Issues
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-4054
lchavez@uci.edu
Irvine
Rumbaut, Ruben
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Immigration, Children of Immigrants, Ethnic
Mobility, Citizenship and National Membership, Population Research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-2495
rrumbaut@uci.edu
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Telles, Edward
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Undocumented immigrants.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-2918, 310-825-1313
telles@soc.ucla.edu
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
Kearney, Michael
Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Professor Kearney's work with transnational
Zapotec and Mixtec communities takes him from cloud forests of Oaxaca,
to the deserts of Baja California, to colonias of border cities,
to fields, orchards, and labor camps in the San Juaquin Valley of
California, and to Latino barrios in Los Angeles and Riverside.
His main research foci are ethnicity, migration, and the theory
and ethnography of transnational communities and processes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3346
michael.kearney@ucr.edu
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San Diego
San Diego
Hanson, Gordon H.
Areas of Expertise: Hanson is an authority on international investment,
migration, and trade. Current Projects: Hanson's major research
areas are the impact of NAFTA on the U.S. and Mexican economies,
outsourcing in the global economy, and illegal immigration in the
United States.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-822-5087
gohanson@ucsd.edu
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San Francisco
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Santa Barbara
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Castillo, Pedro G.
Associate Professor - History
Areas of Expertise: Chicano history and culture, Mexican and Central
American migration to the U.S., immigrants and racial minorities
in American cities.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2738, 459-2855
pcastle@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Zavella, Patricia
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
Areas of Expertise: Gender, work, and family; race-ethnicity; Chicana/o
studies; U.S.-Mexico transnational migration, poverty, sexuality.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4182, 459-2855
zavella@cats.ucsc.edu
