Irene Bloemraad is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her abiding research interests lie in the intersection of immigration and politics, with particular emphasis on citizenship, immigrants' political and civic participation, and the impact of migrants on state ideologies. She is the author of Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (2006) and numerous articles in journals such as Social Forces, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Science Quarterly, and Research in Political Sociology. Her current research, funded in part by the Russell Sage Foundation, examines intergenerational political socialization in immigrant families and the visibility and influence of immigrant community organizations in local decision making.
Janie Filoteo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, mass media, demography, and gender, and her current research explores Latinos and their portrayal on reality television. Her dissertation will focus on the intersection of race, class, and gender in reality television, analyzing how participants are portrayed, how race and ethnic relations among participants are portrayed, and how audience members and fans interpret these portrayals.
David Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Field Research Director at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration (2008) and coeditor of Four Generations of Norteños: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration (2008) and Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States (2007). He has published on international migration in the American Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, New York University Law Review, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. His current project studies liberalism and racial discrimination in immigration and citizenship laws in the Americas since 1850.
John A. García is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. His primary areas of research are in U.S. politics: minority group politics (especially Latinos), urban governments, survey research, and public policy. His research focuses on issues of political mobilization, political participation, and policy implementation and formation. He has published over sixty articles and book chapters over the past thirty-eight years. His current book project is Making It Home: Latino Lives in America and The Latino Political Almanac (vols. 1 and 2). García has been a co-principal investigator on the National Chicano Survey (1979), Latino National Political Survey (1989–1990), and the Latino National Survey (2005–2006). His expertise includes Latino demographics and methodological issues of sample design and survey research. His works bridge basic and applied research with participation on the decennial U.S. Census advisory committee, ICPSR Executive Council, and NSF Social and Behavioral and Economic Science Directorate Advisory committee.
Tomás R. Jiménez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. He has published research articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, and Ethnicities. He is currently completing a book manuscript which examines how Mexican immigration influences the assimilation of established, long-standing Mexican Americans. His latest research project studies the role of the U.S. military in immigrant assimilation.
Jane Junn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She is interested in the politics of immigration, racial and ethnic politics, U.S. political behavior, Asian American politics, social science methodology, and public opinion.
Nadia Y. Kim is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. Her book Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to L.A. will be published by Stanford University Press in June 2008. Her research has also appeared in Critical Sociology and Social Problems. Kim's book focuses on how U.S. global dominance subjects would-be immigrants to, and teaches them about, American racial hierarchies before emigration; hence, she argues for the need to connect the two societal contexts. Her current projects investigate second-generation ethnics and immigrant social movements in the United States. In the past she has been an American Sociological Association Minority Fellow and a Social Science Research Council International Migration Summer Institute participant.
Taeku Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of the IGS Center on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity; and Chair of the Diversity and Democracy Cluster of Berkeley's Diversity Research Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Mobilizing Public Opinion (2002) and a forthcoming coauthored book, tentatively titled Race, Immigration, and Non(Partisanship) in America. He is also coeditor of a volume on immigrant political incorporation, Transforming Politics, Transforming America (2006), and another volume in progress, The Oxford Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States. His newest projects are a book on the uses of “race” and “identity” in the social sciences and a collaborative study of Asian American political engagement.
Pyong Gap Min, a Korean native, is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His areas of research interest are immigration, ethnic identity, ethnic business, religion, and family/gender, with a special focus on Asian Americans. He is the author of four books, including Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles (1996), the winner of two national book awards; and Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City (2008). He is the editor or coeditor of seven books, including Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States, 3 Vols. (2005); and Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues, 2nd ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States was selected as one of the twenty-three best books for the reference category published in 2005 by Booklist.
Aurelia Lorena Murga is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the areas of racial/ethnic inequality, sociology of Latina/os, and immigration/migration. Her studies examine the racialization of migrant labor in the United States, with a special interest in the experiences of day labor participation in the labor market.
Tianna S. Paschel is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she worked as a program associate and researcher for the Race Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. She holds an M.A. in Latin American studies from UCLA and served as a graduate researcher for the Bunche Center for African American Studies. Paschel is interested in issues of race and development, social movements, and nationalist discourse. Her dissertation research focuses on the role of Black social movements in bringing about ethnoracial policy reforms in Brazil and Colombia. She is the cofounder of the Afro-Latino Working Group, an organization dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary scholarship on race and the African Diaspora in Latin America, housed at U.C. Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies.
Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Sciences; Duke University; and the University of Texas, Austin. Portes served as president of the American Sociological Association from 1998–1999. He is the author of some 220 articles and chapters on national development, international migration, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization, and economic sociology. His books include City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (1993), coauthored with Alex Stepick and winner of the Robert Park Award and the Anthony Leeds Award; and Immigrant America: A Portrait (1996), designated as a Centennial Publication by the University of California Press. His current research is on the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation and the rise of transnational immigrant communities in the United States. His most recent books, coauthored with Rubén G. Rumbaut, are Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (2001).
Steven Raphael is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Raphael does research on low-wage labor markets, poverty, the economics of immigration, and the economics of crime.
Lucas Ronconi is Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. Ronconi's research interests include low-wage labor markets and, in particular, compliance with labor law in less-developed countries.
Rogelio Saenz is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University and a Fellow of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. Saenz writes on demographic trends for the Population Reference Bureau. His research focuses on the areas of demography, immigration, sociology of Latina/os, and inequality. Saenz is a coeditor of Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América (2008) and authored the census report Latinos and the Changing Face of America (2004). His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including Demography, International Migration Review, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Race & Society, Social Science Quarterly, and Social Science Research.
Mark Q. Sawyer is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at UCLA, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. He is the author of Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba (2006), which was awarded the Du Bois Award for best book by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, and the Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association.
Janelle Wong is Associate Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
