Ruben Hernandez-Leon
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph. D., SUNY-Binghamton
Office: 296 HAINES HALL
Phone: 3108253059
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
rubenhl@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
HAP
Research Interests
International migration and immigration, border and diaspora studies, Mexico, Latin America.
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Rubén Hernández-León. 2008. Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press. 258 pp.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10984.php
V. Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León, eds. 2005. New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 368 pp.
http://www.russellsage.org/publications/books/050228.652605
JOURNAL ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND WORKING PAPERS
"Frontera sobre ruedas. Las camionetas y la industria de la migración." Trayectorias. (10)26: 31-40. 2008. Available at:
http://w3.dsi.uanl.mx/publicaciones/trayectorias/26/frontera_sobre_ruedas.htm
The Migration Industry in the Mexico-U.S. Migratory System. Available at: http://www.ccpr.ucla.edu/ccprwpseries/ccpr_049_05.pdf
"Restructuring at the Source: High-Skilled Industrial Migration from Mexico to the United States," Work and Occupations. 34(4): 1-29. 2004.
"Social capital and Emigration from Rural and Urban Communities," (w. N. Flores and D. Massey). Behind the Smoke and Mirrors: Research from the Mexican Migration Project. J. Durand and D. Massey, eds. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2004.
"Mexican Immigrant Communities in the South and Social Capital: the Case of Dalton, Georgia," (w. V. Zuniga). Southern Rural Sociology. 19(1): 20-45. 2003.
"Making Carpet by the Mile: The Emergence of a Mexican Immigrant Community in an Industrial Region of the U.S. Historic South," (w. V. Zuniga) Social Science Quarterly, 2000, 81(1). 2000.
"A la Aventura!: Jovenes, Pandillas y Migracion en la Conexion Monterrey-Houston." In Fronteras Fragmentadas, G. Mummert, ed. 1999 (El Colegio de Michoacan).
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