Andrés E. Jiménez, Director California Policy Research Center
University of California Office of the President
1950 Addison, #202
Berkeley, CA 94704-1182
ph: 510.642.8328 fax: 510.642.8793
http://www.ucop.edu/cprc
Andrés Jiménez is director of the California Policy Research Center (CPRC), a University of California systemwide program that applies independent, nonpartisan scholarly research expertise to public policy issues. Jiménez has researched and written about society and politics in the United States and Mexico, US race and ethnic relations, US immigration policy, dual-citizenship, and US-Latin American relations. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, La Opinion, and the San Jose Mercury News have published his commentaries. His analysis and commentaries have also been aired on National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the British Broadcasting Service, the Univision Network, and the Telemundo Network.
Before joining CPRC, Jiménez coordinated research programs at the Insitute of International Studies and Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. Jiménez is a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento, the Executive Committee of the Center for Latino Policy Research at UC Berkeley, and the Advisory Committee of the Chicano/Latino Research Center at UC Santa Cruz. He chairs the editorial committee of the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, an independant refereed research journal housed at the JFK School of Public Policy at Harvard University. Jiménez was elected to the National Policy Council for the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) for the 1994-1998 term. He also served on the Advisory Board for a major RAND Corporation study of the effects of large-scale immigration on California, the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the East Bay, and the Planning Committee of the California Public Policy Consortium. Jiménez chaired the countywide Newcomers Task Force of Contra Costa County, convened by the Board of Supervisors from 1994 through 1996. Jiménez received his BA in politics and Latin American Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and is currently completing doctoral studies in political science at UC Berkeley.
Paul Johnston, The Citizenship Project
931 E Market St.
Salinas, CA 93905
ph. 831.424.2713 – home office 423.4108
email: paul.johnston@newcitizen.org
www.newcitizen.org
The Citizenship Project is a six-year-old Mexican immigrant community-based organization and action research project, based in the rural Salinas Valley region which is the heart of California's fresh vegetable industry. Developed through a collaboration between the Salinas-based Teamsters Local 890 and former Yale sociology professor Paul Johnston, the Project has developed a unique ideology of citizenship both as a structure of equality and inequality, and as an agenda and method for social change. Johnston is currently working on a book about the intersection of the labor movement and the citizenship movement among Mexican immigrants in California.
Action research opportunities include
---grassroots organizing and database development in support of expanded political participation by immigrants in various citizenship statuses;
---strategic research on labor contractors and labor standards enforcement in the fresh vegetable industry;
---policy development and coalition-building around immigrant youth needs, emphasizing the needs of undocumented youth;
---prospective planning for the response by public, non-profit and union response to the next round of immigration law reform; and
---analysis of the Project's massive body of data on new and aspiring citizens and their undocumented relatives.
Susanne Jonas, Latin American & Latino Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
3311 Mission St. #189
San Francisco CA 94110
415- 826 8338
Major interests: Central American binational migration circuits and binational organizing for migrant rights in the U.S. (emphasis on Guatemalans and Salvadorans); Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities in the San Francisco Bay Area; impact on sending communities/countries in Guatemala and El Salvador; anti-immigrant state policies and transnational realities; reconceptualizing citizenship in the Americas.
Major publications recently: (co-editor and contributor): Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas (Scholarly Resources, 1999), (co-author) La Migracion guatemalteca en los EE.UU., 1980-1996 (Working Paper for the United Nations Development Program, 2000), Rethinking Immigration Policy and Citizenship in the Americas: A Regional Framework (several versions in different books), National Security, Regional Development and Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Policy: Reflections from the Case of Central American Immigrants and Refugees In Max Castro (ed.): Trends in Int'l Migration and Imm Policy in the Americas (Miami: North-South Center Press, 1999), Transnational Realities and Anti-Immigrant State Policies... in Roberto Korzeniewiz and William Smith (eds.), Latin America in the World Economy (Greenwood, 1996), War and Peace in the Central American Diaspora in California in Nora Hamilton and Norma Chinchilla (eds.), Central Americans in California (Univ of Southern California, 1996)
- in the works: a collaborative book on Guatemalans in the U.S.
Philip Martin
Dept of Ag and Resource Economics, UC Davis
1 Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Tel: 530-752-1530
Fax: 530-752-5614
email:martin@primal.ucdavis.edu
http://martin.ucdavis.edu
Interests in labor migration, guest workers, low wage labor markets, and the interaction of economic development and migration patterns.
Editor of the monthly Migration News and quarterly Rural Migration News, http://migration.ucdavis.edu 1993-present
Martin, Philip L. and Elizabeth Midgley. 1999. Immigration to the United States. Washington D.C. Population Reference Bureau. Vol 54, No 2. June. http://www.prb.org
Garcia y Griego, Manuel and Philip Martin. 2000. Immigration and Immigrant Integration in California: Seeking a New Consensus. Berkeley. California Policy Seminar. http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/
Martin, Philip L. 1998. Germany: Reluctant Land of Immigration. Washington. DC. American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. September. http://www.aicgs.org
Taylor, J. Edward, Philip Martin, and Michael Fix. 1997. Poverty Amid Prosperity: Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California. Washington, DC. Urban Institute Press. http://www.urban.org
Rick Mines
Affiliated with California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis (530-756-6555 x18)
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from UC Berkeley.
Experience:
25 years of survey research, analysis and report writing involving the immigrant, particularly the Mexican farmworker, community
Interests:
Immigration and migrant integration policies, health and demographics of farmworkers and other immigrants, technological change in agriculture, rural development in Mexico
Ayse Pamuk, Urban Studies, San Francisco State University.
She holds Ph.D. and MCP degrees in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ayse's expertise is in housing and urban policy, research methods, nonprofit housing development, and land and housing markets in developing countries. Her current research interests include impacts of globalization in inner city neighborhoods, housing and labor markets, and transnational networks. Her publications include "Informal Institutional Arrangements in Credit, Land Markets, and Infrastructure Delivery in Trinidad" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(2): 379-396, 2000. "Tools for a Land and Housing Market Diagnosis" In The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and Practices edited by M. E. Friere and R. Stren. Toronto and Washington, DC: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto and the World Bank Institute, 2001. "Convergence Trends in Formal and Informal Housing Markets: The Case of Turkey" Journal of Planning Education and Research. Vol 16(2): 103-113, 1996.
Her professional practice includes consulting assignments with international development lending/aid agencies in Washington, D.C.. Most recently, she developed a land and housing market diagnosis toolkit for city managers and urban planners from large Latin American cities for the World Bank. She also directed a major land and housing market study for Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Housing and Settlements under the auspices of the Inter-American Development Bank in 1993.
Manuel Pastor, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies
Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community
Merrill College
University of California, Santa Cruz 95064
(831) 459-5919
mpastor@cats.ucsc.edu
His research on Latin American issues has been published in journals such as International Organization, World Development, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Research Review. His research on U.S. urban issues has been published in Economic Development Quarterly, Review of Regional Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Issues, and elsewhere and has generally focused on the labor market and social conditions facing low-income urban, especially immigrant Latino, communities. Dr. Pastor's most recent books include Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy (Westview Press), co-edited with Jeffry Frieden and Michael Tomz, and Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota Press), co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza.
He is currently working on issues of environmental justice with support from both The California Endowment and the California Policy Research Center and has forthcoming articles on this topic in the Journal of Urban Affairs and Urban Affairs Review. His most recent research project is a two-year study of labor markets in the Silicon Valley and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the support of the Russell Sage, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations.
Belinda I. Reyes, Research Fellow
Public Policy Institute of California
500 Wash. St., Suite 800, SF, CA 94111
(415) 291-4492
http://www.ppic.org
Senior Program Associate
PolicyLink
101 Broadway
Oakland, California 94607
510 663-2333 ext. 341
http://www.policylink.org
I have been doing research on migration patterns between Mexico and the US. I am currently working on a report evaluating the effects of border enforcement policy on migration patters between Mexico and the US. I am also interested in studying immigrant integration in the U.S. I did some work on immigrant naturalization and I am currently working on a report looking at the integration of immigrants in Americans communities. Lastly, I am interested in examining the social and economic progress of racial and ethnic groups in the United States and I am currently finishing a report that examines the social and economic progress of race and ethnic groups in California.
Bindi Shah, Ph.D candidate
Department of Sociology, U.C. Davis
e-mail: bvshah@email.msn.com; phone: (510) 232-6577
Dissertation (in progress) focuses on second generation Laotian girls involved in a community organizing and leadership development program established by an environmental justice organization in northern California. The main themes that the dissertation addresses include processes of adaptation among immigrant youth, partcularly girls and young women; ethnic and political identity; and citizenship in multiracial, multiethnic societies.
