faculty

UCLA Labor and Workplace Studies Program
Labor Summer Internship Program in Los Angeles

June 23 - August 15, 2008

Labor and Workplace Faculty

Faculty

Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is currently Project Director at UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. He has previously held positions at several universities in the United States (including the University of Southern California, University of California at Santa Cruz and San Diego, and Columbia University). He serves as an advisor to several migrant organizations in California, including the Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous Development (CBDIO), the Coalition for Humane Human Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), and the Indigenous Organizations Binational Front (FIOB). From 1999 to 2003 he was assistant professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC), were he taught courses on international migration, Latino politics, and race relations in the United States. He has extensive experience as an independent consultant on transnational migration, grassroots philanthropy and Mexican economic development.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado was appointed as holder of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity for 2004/2005 by the University Board of Utrecht University in the Netherlands . The Prince Claus Chair is a rotating chair in the field of development and North-South relations and was established by Utrecht University and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS). Professor Rivera-Salgado was appointed on the basis of his academic work in the field of indigenous rights, particularly in Latin America and the United States. Professor Rivera-Salgado was based at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is the author of many publications about US-Mexican migration, social movements and the rights of indigenous peoples. His most recent publications include the edited volume (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, Center for US-Mexican Studies and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies , 2004); and the article (with L. Escala and X. Bada) "Mexican Migrant Civic and Political Participation in the United States: The Case of Hometown Associations in Chicago and Los Angeles." Revista Norteamerica (CSAN-UNAM and CNAS-American University.) November, 2006, No.2.