Social Science Research Council

1996

Jiemin Bao
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Chinese Thai Capitalists: Transgessing Ethnic Boundaries in the United States"

Ingrid Ellen
The Brookings Institute
Project Title: "Welcome Neighbors? Race, Immigration, and the Possibility of Neighborhood Integration"

Luin Goldring
York University - Ontario, Canada
Project Title: "Membership, Participation and Rights in the Context of Mexico-US Transnational Migration: Changes in State Claims and Policies, and Transmigrant Practices"

Gallya Lahav
Center for European Union Studies
Project Title: "The Evolution of Immigration Policy in the US and Europe Since 1965: Changing the Gatekeepers or 'Bringing Back the State'?"

Carmen Whalen
Rutgers University
Project Title: "From Labor Migrants to the 'Underclass': A History of Puerto Rican Migration to Philadelphia"

Steven Zahniser
University of Colorado - Boulder
Project Title: "New Approaches and New Issues in the Study of Mexican Migration Networks"


1997

Kavous Behzadi
Boston College / University of Massachusetts - Boston
Project Title: "Migration, Coping, and Adaptation: Patterns of Vulnerability and Resilience Among Muslim Immigrants in the US"

Jon Holtzman
University of Michigan
Project Title: "Kinship and the State in the Transformation of Gender Relations Among Nuer Refugees in the Twin Cities Area"

Michael Jones-Correa
Harvard University
Project Title: "Four Cities: Immigrants, Civil Disturbances, and Political Incorporation"

Jane Junn
Rutgers University
Project Title: "Participation in Liberal Democracy: The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the US"

Fred Krissman
Center for Comparative American Cultures and Race Relations, Washington State University
Project Title: "A Comparative Study of Immigrant Labor Recruitment: US Agribusiness Strategies to Tap Mexican Transnational Networks"

Peggy Levitt
Harvard University
Project Title: "What Happens to Participation? How Transnationalism Transforms Civic Engagement"

Audrey Singer
Georgetown University
Project Title: "Citizenship Acquisition and Community Context Among Latin American Immigrants in New York City"


1998
Margaret Chin
Kennedy School of Government / Columbia University
Project Title: "Working, Immigrant, and Public Assistance: Asian and Latino Immigrants in the New York City Garment Industry"

M. Elizabeth Fussell
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Project Title: "Household Economic Strategies and Demographic Outcomes: Labor Migration to the US and Female Labor Force Participation in Tijuana, Mexico"

Virginie Guiraudon
European University Institute
Project Title: "De-Nationalizing Migration Control Policy"

Kenneth Newbold
University of Illinois
Project Title: "Evolutionary Immigrant Settlement Systems in the US and Canada: A Comparative Analysis"

Mae Ngai
Columbia University
Project Title: "Illegal Aliens and Alien Citizens: US Immigration Policy and Racial Formation, 1945-1965"


1999

Benjamin Bailey
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "Language and Racial Identity of the Dominican Second Generation"

Renee Blake
New York University
Project Title: "Negotiating African American Identity: A Study of the Language and Culture of 2nd and 3rd Generation West Indians in New York"

Ruth Chao
University of California - Riverside
Project Title: "The Role of Linguistic Brokering in the Ethnic Identity and Parent-Child Relations of Chinese and Mexican Immigrant Families"

Pei-te Lien
University of Utah
Project Title: "Asian Americans and Political Participation - Exploring the Missing Links"

Suzanne Sinke
Clemson University
Project Title: "International Marriage Market"

Robert Smith
Barnard College
Project Title: "Gendered Ethnicity at Three Strategic Sites: Explaining Variation in Second Generation Mexican American Men and Women's Work and School Mobility"


2000

David Bartram
Haverford College
Project Title: "Foreign Workers Policy and Economic Governance in the US and Britain"

S. Cristina Escobar
Princeton University
Project Title: "Colombian Dual Citizenship and Political Participation"

Erika Lee
University of Minnesota
Project Title: "At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration and American Exclusion, 1882-1943"

Jennifer Parker Talwar
Pennsylvania State University
Project Title: "Ethnic Entrepreneurs and 'American' Franchises: Implications for Immigrants and the Native-born"

Scott Susin
US Census Bureau
Project Title: "The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Housing Market"

Ayumi Takenaka
Columbia University
Project Title: "Immigrant Niches, Ethnic Identities, and Social Mobility: Japanese-Peruvians in Los Angeles and New York"


2001

Angie Chung
University of California - Los Angeles
Project Title: "The Politics of Ethnic Solidarity: A Study on the Hierarchical Bases of Social Capital in a Contemporary Enclave Community"

Kathleen Coll
Public Policy Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Project Title: "Cultural Citizenship and the Immigrant Voting Rights Movement"

Alan Kessler
University of Texas - Austin
Project Title: "Guarded Gates: Toward a Political Economy of American Immigration Policy"

Vivian Louie
Harvard University
Project Title: "Getting to College: A Comparative Study of the Immigrant Family in the Educational Experiences of 2nd Generation Chinese and Latino Americans"

Adam McKeown
Northeastern University
Project Title: "Chinese Migrants Meet the American Empire: Diaspora and Bureaucracy in the World Order, 1882-1936"

Catherine Wanner
Pennsylvania State University
Project Title: "Communities of the Converted: American Missionaries in Ukraine, The Rise of Protestantism, and the Implications for US Immigration"


2002

Alexander Byrd
Rice University
Project Title: "Black Captives, Black Voyagers: Two Great Migrations and the Making of the Modern British Atlantic"

Kathleen Erwin
University of California - San Francisco
Project Title: "The Cultural Politics of Transnational Marriage Among New Chinese Immigrants to California"

Tiffany Lightbourn
Vassar College
Project Title: "Judging Credibility: Understanding Asylum Claim Decisions"

Nancy Mirabal
University of California - Berkeley
Project Title: "The Color Question: AfroCubans, African Americans and the Diasporic Inventions of Race"

Julie Watts
Pomona College
Project Title: "Building Cross-Border Labor Solidarity for Regional Immigration Policies"

Ji-Yeon Yuh
Northwestern University
Project Title: "Identity and Community Formation in Diaspora: Koreans in China, Japan and the United States"