faculty

Global Studies: Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico since NAFTA

June 29 - August 2, 2008

Global Studies-Mexico Instructor Bio

Faculty

Rubén Hernández-León (Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is a former Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow with the Mexican Migration Project at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2000-2002), former faculty in the Department of Humanities at Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico (1997-1999), and former research associate with the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston (1995-1999). His current areas of research are new destinations of Mexican immigration in the United States, the migration industry between these two countries, urban and metropolitan origins of Mexico-US migration and the social and political management and construction of the US-Mexico border. He has also conducted research on youth issues and urban poverty in Mexico. The results of his research have been published in Work and Occupations, Social Science Quarterly, International Migration Review, Southern Rural Sociology, Ciudades and in several edited books. He is co-editor of New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation) and is working on a book on the causes and social organization of U.S.-bound migration in a large metropolitan setting in Mexico.

Janna Shadduck-Hernandez is a Project Director and Lecturer for the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education.