Social Science Research Council

1996

Michael Aguilera
SUNY Stony Brook
Project Title: "The Social, Political and Economic Effects on Mexican Immigration"

Carol Archer
CUNY Graduate Center
Project Title: "The Development of a Pan-ethnic Identity Among Caribbean Immigrants in New York City"

Lionel Cantu
University of California - Irvine
Project Title: "Queer Transgressions: Gay Immigrants and the Political Economy of Identity"

Jessica De Leon
University of Florida
Project Title: "A New Phase of Hispanic Migration: The Structural and Sociocultural Factors of Puerto Rican Migration to Central Florida"

Lourdes Gutierrez Najera
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Migrant Circuits"

Melonie Heron
Pennsylvania State University
Project Title: "Changing Caribbean Immigration Patterns and Immigrant Adaptation: A Migration Systems Approach"

Richard Kim
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Project Title: "Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903-1945: The Makings of a Diasporic Community"

Jeffrey Lewis
University of California - Davis
Project Title: "Transnational Migration and the Social Construction of Childhood"

Alejandra Marchevsky
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Project Title: "The Empire Strikes Back: International Migration, Border Politics and Proposition 187"

Gina Perez
Northwestern University
Project Title: "Rethinking Transnationalism: Race and Gender Considerations in Puerto Rican Migrations"

Gaspar Rivera
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: "Mixtec Resistance to Globalization and the Transnationalization of Labor: The Forging of a Grassroots Binational Organization of Indigenous Migrant Workers"

Gina Sanchez
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: "The Negotiation of 'Racial' and Cultural Identity Among Cape Verdean Americans"

Kimberly Simmons
Michigan State University
Project Title: "International Migration and the (Re)Classification of Dominicans: Dominicans Create an Afro-Dominican Identity in the Company of African Americans in the United States"

Quynh-Giang Tran
Pennsylvania State University
Project Title: "Impact of Vietnamese Community Context on Immigrant Occupational Status: Relating Social Capital and Human Capital"

Maria Yen
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Poverty, Survival, and Prosperity in the Vietnamese Refugee Community"


1997

Grace Delgado
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "Asymmetrical Development Along the Far Western US-Mexican Border States, 1846-1940"

Miliann Kang
New York University
Project Title: "New York City Korean-owned Nail Salons as a Site for the Microconstructions of Race and Gender in an Immigrant Service Niche"

Oneka LaBennett
Harvard University
Project Title: "Cultural Products and Migration: Consumption, Ethnicity, and Gender Among West Indians in Brooklyn"

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Columbia University
Project Title: "Culture, Representation and the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora"

Anna Law
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: "Post-1965 Immigration Restrictions - Liberal or Illiberal? "

Eunju Lee
SUNY Albany
Project Title: "'Making it' in America: Korean Immigrant Women and Men in Small Business"

Nelson Lim
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "Racial and Ethnic Divisions of Labor, Integration of Immigrants, and Their Impact on the Labor Market"

Ronald Mize
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Project Title: "The Invisible Workers: Articulations of Race and Class in the Testimonies of Braceros"

Natalia Molina
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Birthing with Their Hands: Mamas, Comadres, y Parteras"

Regine Ostine
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Taking Sides: A Case Study of Boston's Haitian Immigrants and the Racial and Ethnic Boundaries of Identity, 1965-1970"

Reuel Rogers
Princeton University
Project Title: "Somewhere Between Race and Ethnicity"

Maude Toussaint
University of Illinois - Chicago
Project Title: "Productivity of Immigrants (from the Caribbean and Africa) in the US and Canada"

Cara Wong
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Membership and Morality in US Immigration Politics"


1998

Maitrayee Bhattacharyya
Princeton University
Project Title: "The Adaptation of Children of Indian Immigrants in the United States"

Leigh Blackburn
Southern University
Project Title: "International Migration: A Threat to the United States Security Environment?"

Marilyn Espitia
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: "The Meaning of Citizenship: Bridging the Gap Between Theory, Naturalization Trends, and the Immigrant Experience"

Su Yeong Kim
University of California - Davis
Project Title: "Dynamics of the Asian American Immigrant Family for Adolescents"

Sandra Lara
Columbia University - Teachers College
Project Title: "A Developmental Approach to Understanding Mental Health Outcomes Among Adult Latino Immigrants"

Michelle Moran-Taylor
Arizona State University
Project Title: "Guatemalan Migration to the United States"

Antonio Polo
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "Child Behavior Problems Within an Ethnic Group: Socio-cultural Influences on Childhood Psychopathology Among Mexican-American Children"

Shalini Shankar
New York University
Project Title: "South Asian Youth Culture: Identity, Gender and Community"

Nitasha Sharma
University of California - Santa Barbara
Project Title: "The Role of Hip-hop in the formation of Second Generation Indian American Identities"

Stacey Squires
University of California - Irvine
Project Title: "The Changing Faces of West Indian New Yorkers"

Jerome Staughan
University of Southern California
Project Title: "Belizean Immigrants in Los Angeles"

Vivian Tseng
New York University
Project Title: "Post-Secondary Education, Family Background, and Familial Obligations Among Children From Immigrant Families"

Zulema Valdez
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "What is "Ethnic" About Ethnic Entrepreneurship?: The Intersection of Ethnicity and Class in Self-Employment Participation"

Maria Verdaguer
American University
Project Title: "Latino Immigrant female Entrepreneurship: Women's Contribution to the Emergence and Development of Ethnic Enterprises in Washington D.C."

Janelle Wong
Yale University
Project Title: "Political Socialization and Participation Among Contemporary Immigrants in the US"


1999

Zain Abdullah
Princeton University
Project Title: "'Transnational Imagination' among Asante Migrants of Ghana"

Sandra Alvarez
Kansas State University
Project Title: "Within the Enclave: An Examination of the Role of Women"

Ana Aparicio
CUNY Graduate Center
Project Title: "Negotiating Identity and Cultural Change: Second Generation Dominican Youth in New York"

Ernest Bustillos
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: "Mexican Migrant Workers in the Southeast United States"

Maria Chee
University of California - Riverside
Project Title: "Transnational Chinese American Families from Taiwan"

David Hernandez
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Immigrants and US-born Ethnic Communities: Nexus of Struggle and Ambivalence"

Nhi Lieu
University of Michigan
Project Title: "From Refugee to Bourgeoisie: Cultural Transformations of Vietnamese Identity in Little Saigon and throughout the Diaspora"

Sailemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor
University of Hawaii
Project Title: "'Home and Reach': Fa'a a-Samoa (Samoan way of life/culture) and the Transnational Movements of Samoans"

John McKiernan Gonzalez
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Fevered Measures: Ethnicity and Public Health on the US-Mexico Border, 1880-1950"

Yoonies Park
University of California - Irvine
Project Title: "Korean Immigrant Women in Business: Barriers, Opportunities, and Strategies in the Korean Economic Enclave"

Jemima Pierre
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: "Identity Formation Through the Migration Experience: Ghanaian Immigrants in Washington, DC"

Junaid Rana
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: "Tracking Transnational Capital: The Salariat, US Immigration, and the Nation-State of Pakistan"

Hung Thai
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Transnational Marriages"


2000

May Chan
New York University
Project Title: "Parent-Adolescent Conflicts and Their Relationship to the Well-Being of Adolescents from Immigrant and Non-immigrant Families"

Angie Chung
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "'New' Ethnic Organizations in the Evolving Enclave Community"

Cynthia Feliciano
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "Beyond Class: Towards Understanding Intra-ethnic Difference in School Achievement Among Immigrant and Native-born Minorities"

Valerie Hunt
University of Washington
Project Title: "Unfinished Business: Explaining Instability in US Immigration Policy, 1947-1996"

Kathleen Lopez
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Chinese Migration to Cuba and Chinese Cuban Migration to the United States, mid-19th to mid-20th century"

Wendi Manuel-Scott
Howard University
Project Title: "Engendering the African Diaspora: The Immigration of West Indian Women to Harlem, 1900-1945"

Angela Mascarenas
University of Illinois - Chicago
Project Title: "Social Policy and Asian American Collective Action"

Jose Somental
University of Cincinnati
Project Title: "Mexican Migrations and Settlement in the Greater Cincinnati Area"

Edna Viruell-Fuentes
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Beyond Acculturation: Towards a Fluid Approach to Mexican Immigration and Health"

Esther Yim
University of California - Santa Barbara
Project Title: "Betwixt and Between, Here and There: Transnational Mediations of Diaspora"


2001

Sayu Bhojwani
Columbia University - Teachers College
Project Title: "Pedagogy, Placement and Participation: South Asian Immigrant Students in New York City High Schools"

Anne Choi
University of Southern California
Project Title: "Border Crossings: The Politics of Korean Nationalism in Los Angeles, 1903-1960"

Juan Esteva
SUNY Albany
Project Title: "The Formation and Relocation of "Mexican" Ethnic/National Identity-Based Social Support Networks: Immigrants' Adaptation Strategies to New York City School"

Alana Hackshaw
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Project Title: "Issues, Agendas, and Definitions of Linked Fate Based on Race that Forms the Basis of a Shared Political Consciousness Between Black Immigrants and African Americans"

Jean Kim
Cornell University
Project Title: "Laboratory of U.S. Empire: Asian Americans, Biopolitics, and the Sciences of Eugenic Racial Surveillance"

Sylvia Manzano
University of Arizona
Project Title: "Social Capital Accumulation and Mexican Immigrant Incorporation"

Ana Motta-Moss
CUNY Graduate Center
Project Title: "The Role of Place in the Reconstruction of Personal Histories Among Immigrants"

Eleanor Murphy
University of Michigan
Project Title: "The Impact of Immigration and Transnationalism on Mental Health Among West Indians"

Katy Pinto
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "Farm Background and Educational Attainment: The Children of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S."

Hoa Tran
Temple University
Project Title: "Constructed Boundaries: Vietnamese Identity Politics in Philadelphia"

Tiffany Yip
New York University
Project Title: "Situational Variation in Ethnic Identity and Psychological Well-being Among Chinese American Adolescents from Immigrant Families"


2002
Leisy Abrego
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "Almost American: Aspirations and Educational Attainment of Undocumented Latino Youth"

Neel Bhattacharjee
Arizona State University
Project Title: "Resettlement of Sudanese "Lost Boys" in Metropolitan Phoenix"

Brandy Jones
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Considering the Political Linkages Between Trans-national Communities"

Eleana Kim
New York University
Project Title: "Performing Loss: The Global Movement of Transnational Korean Adoptees"

Veronica Lopez-Duran
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: "Northern California, Economic Restructuring and the Challenge of Regional Impacts on Migrant Incorporation and Political Participation"

Patrisia Macias
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Free Trade, Closed Border: Contemporary Labor Regulation at the US-Mexican Border"

Maria Cristina Morales
Txas A&M University
Project Title: "Ethnic Niches, Path to Incorporation or Exploitation: Labor Market Experiences of Latinas and Latino Immigrants"

Tamara Ochoa
Northeastern University
Project Title: "Migrant Domestic Workers: Visible Presence, Invisible Work"

Evelyn Rodriguez
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Emerging Identities: The Production and Presentation of Gender, Race, and Class Through Coming-of-Age Rituals of Second-Generation Daughters"

Claire Van Zevern
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: "Immigrant-Union Alliances in Comparative Perspective"