Social Science Research Council

1996

Rafael Alarcon
University of California - San Diego
Project Title: “Immigration from Mexico and India, High Technology and Regional Development in Silicon Valley”

Susan Blank
University of California - Irvine
Project Title: “Cultural Orchestration: Acculturation within a Culturally Diverse Context”

Catherine Ceniza Choy
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: “The Export of Womanpower: Filipino Nurses, Migration, Work, and Community in Post-Industrial America”

Jennifer Hirsch
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: “Migration, Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health: A Comparative Study of Mexican Women in Two Communities”

Kathy Kaufman
Columbia University
Project Title: “Situation Wanted: Immigration, Household Demand and the Domestic Service Labor Market, 1965-1995”

Jee-Young Lee
Columbia University
Project Title: “Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Opportunity Structure and Intergroup Relations”

1997

Nancy Carnevale
Rutgers University
Project Title: “Living in Translation: Language and Italian Immigrants in the US, 1900-1968”

Ilana Gershon
University of Chicago
Project Title: “Finding Samoan Culture: New Zealand and United States Government Aid”

Henry Goldschmidt
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: “Race, Religion and Biblical Culture in the Immigrant Communities of Crown Heights.”

Melonie Heron
Pennsylvania State University
Project Title: “The Occupational Attainment of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, Canada and Britain”

Patrick Joyce
Harvard University
Project Title: “Politics and the Development of Black-Korean Conflicts”

Dae Young Kim
City University of New York - Graduate Center
Project Title: “Out of the Ethnic Economy?: Intergenerational Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes of Second Generation Korean Americans in New York”

Gaspar Rivera
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: “Comparative Analysis of Migration and Political Activism Among Mexican Transnational Indigenous Communities”

Alexandra Stern
University of Chicago
Project Title: “Producing and Reproducing Purity in the Name of Nationhood: Eugenics and Evolutionism in US - Mexican Relations, 1900-1940”

Ayumi Takenaka
Columbia University
Project Title: “Ethnicity-Based Transnational Community and Networks: Japanese-Peruvians in Peru, Japan, and the US”

1998

Gaston Alonso
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: “Becoming Latinos in the United States: The Formation and Political Mobilization of Panethnic Identity”

Alejandra Castaneda
University of California - Santa Cruz
Project Title: “Transnational Politics: Political Culture and Mexican Migration to the United States”

Linda Heidenreich
University of California - San Diego
Project Title: “History and Forgetfullness in Napa County”

Richard Kim
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Project Title: “Korean Immigrant Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Transnational Politics, 1903-1945”

Nelson Lim
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: “Racial and Ethnic Division of Labor, Human Resource Practices, and Economic Incorporation of Low-skilled Immigrants”

Vivian Louie
Yale University
Project Title: “Academic Decisions, Group Dynamics: The Effects of Family Life on the Educational Experiences of Chinese American Women”

Kristen Maher
University of California - Irvine
Project Title: “A Stranger in the House: Community, Identity, and Transnational Women Workers”

Ian Mast
Southern Methodist University
Project Title: “Organizing Transnationally: Migrant Participation at Home and Abroad”

Ronald Mize
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Project Title: “The Invisible Workers: State and Society in the Life Histories of Braceros”

Una Okonkwo
Northwestern University
Project Title: “Devaluation and Investing at Home: Migrants and Housing Investments: Theory and Evidence from Nigerian Immigration”

Reuel Rogers
Princeton University
Project Title: “Somewhere Between Race and Ethnicity: Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African-Americans and the Politics of Incorporation”

1999

A. Aneesh
Rutgers University
Project Title: “Information Labor Flows: Indian Programmers in the US-based Information Industry.”

Katherine Caldwell
University of Chicago
Project Title: “Illegal Aliens and the Transnformation of Citizenship in the United States, 1870-1940”

Carolina Chen
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: “Getting Saved in America: Conversion to Evangelical Protestantism among Taiwanese Immigrants”

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Princeton University
Project Title: “Dominicanyork: Migration, Social Movements, and Popular Culture in Washington Heights and Santo Domingo, 1961-1986”

Shalini Shankar
New York University
Project Title: “Networked and Connected: Mediations of Style, Community and Diaspora among South Asian-American Youth”

Nitasha Sharma
University of California - Santa Barbara
Project Title: “Claiming Space: Making Race: Racial Formation of Second Generation Indian Americans”

Henry Mark Wild
University of California - San Diego
Project Title: “Children of all nations: Multi-nationalism in the Immigrant Districts of Central Los Angeles, 1900-1940”

Janelle Wong
Yale University
Project Title: “Transnational Ties and Involvement in the US Political System among Contemporary Immigrants in the United States.”

2000

Irene Bloemraad
Harvard University
Project Title: “The Political Incorporation of Immigrants: Citizenship and Participation in the United States and Canada”

Charlotte Brooks
Northwestern University
Project Title: “Shifting Terrain: Housing, Property Ownership, and Americans of Asian Descent in California, 1924-1952”

Miguel Ceballos
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Project Title: “Prenatal Health of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: A Study of Acculturation, Adaptation, and the Epidemiological Paradox in Chicago”

Sara Dorow
University of Minnesota
Project Title: “Constructions of Identity and Difference: The Transnational Migration of Children Adopted from China.”

Emmanuel Eugene
Florida International University
Project Title: “Reimagining the Haitian Nation Across National Borders: The Transnational Politics of Migrants and Non-Migrant Haitians Negotiated on Haitian Radio Based in Southern Florida”

Jennifer Guglielmo
University of Minnesota
Project Title: “Negotiating Gender, Race and Coalition: Italian Women and Working Class Politics in New York City, 1880-1945”

Sara Lee
Columbia University
Project Title: “The Value of Ethnic Identity: A Comparative Study of Professional and Working-Class Second-Generation Korean Immigrants in New York City”

Johanna Shih
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: “Engineering Careers: Ethnicity, Nativity and Gender in Silicon Valley”

2001

Ernestine Avila
University of Southern California
Project Title: “Mexican and Central American Transnational Motherhood and Fatherhood”

Julie Chu
Stanford University
Project Title: “Dreams of Tibet: Tibetan Nationalism and Global Human Rights in France and the US”

Antje Ellermann
Brandeis University
Project Title: “The Politics of Deportation: The Logic of Forced Removal in Liberal Democracies”

Kelly Greenhill
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Title: “People Pressure: Forced Migration as an Instrument of Coercion”

Valerie Hunt
University of Washington
Project Title: “Unfinished Business: Explaining Change in US Immigration Policy, 1947-1996”

Jamillah Karim
Duke University
Project Title: “Immigration, Islam, and Boundary Negotiation: A Case Study of South Asian and African American Women in Chicago and Atlanta”

Anna Law
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: “Cracks in the National Consensus - Institutional Norms, the American Judiciary, and Immigration, 1883-1893 and the 1990's”

Lilia Monzo
University of Southern California
Project Title: “Children as Cultural Brokers and Agents of Acculturation Within Latino Family Contexts: A Sociocultural Approach”

Zulema Valdez
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: “What is "Ethnic" About Ethnic Entrepreneurship?: The Economic Advantage of Ethnicity in Self-Employment Opportunities”

Edna Viruell-Fuentes
University of Michigan
Project Title: “Mexican Immigration and Health: The Role of Transnational Social Networks”

Michael Witgen
University of Washington
Project Title: “An Infinity of Nations: Indians, Immigrants, and American Identity in the Northern Borderlands”

Ben Zulueta
University of California - Santa Barbara
Project Title: “Forging the Model Minority: Chinese Immigrant Intellectuals, American Science, and the Cold War, 1949-1965”

2002

Dalia Abdel-Hady
SUNY Albany
Project Title: “Immigration in a Global Society: Identity, Community, and Culture. The Case of the Lebanese Diaspora in Three Cities”

Tramayne Butler
University of Michigan
Project Title: “Negotiating Race: Cultural Perceptions and the Construction of Ethnicity Among African Americans and Kenyan Immigrants”

Cynthia Feliciano
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: “Explaining Ethnic Differences: The Effects of Immigrant Selectivity on Children of Immigrants' Educational Attainment and Achievement”

Norma Fuentes
Columbia University
Project Title: “The Incorporation to Work and Housing of Mexican and Dominican Immigrants in NYC: The Role of Race and Ethnicity”

Alana Hackshaw
University of Michigan
Project Title: “Navigating the Ethnic Divide: Exploring the Political Significance of Racial Group Consciousness Between West Indians and African Americans”

David Hernandez
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: “Undue Process: Detention, Due Process, and Coerced Labor in US Immigration History”

Marina Maccari
University of Kansas - Lawrence
Project Title: “Global Migration in Transition: The Americas, Europe, and Italian Diaspora (1946-1960).”

Laurie Mengel
Brown University
Project Title: “Beyond Picture Brides: Japanese Women, Marriage, Migration and Divorce, 1880-1930”

Jennifer Najera
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: “Mapping Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Social Relations in South Texas”

Connie Oxford
University of Pittsburgh
Project Title: “Gender-Based Persecution in Asylum Law and Policy in the United States”

Mariel Rose
New York University
Project Title: “The Mountain South Encounters the Global South: Work, NAFTA, and Mexican Immigration in Western North Carolina, Post-9/11/01”

Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida
CUNY Graduate Center
Project Title: “The Multiple Logics of Labor Market Incorporation: Second Generation Immigrants in the Metropolitan New York Labor Market”