Degrees
Ph. D., SUNY-Binghamton
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
"Gender, Bilingualism, and the Early Occupational Careers of Second-Generation Mexicans in the South." (with Sarah Morando Lakhani.) Social Forces. 92(1): 59-80. 2013.
"The Migration Industry of Migration Control." Available at http://www.antiatlas.net/en/2013/09/27/the-migration-industry-of-migration-control-ruben-hernandez-leon-ucla/
"La industria de la migración en el sistema migratorio México-Estados Unidos." Traces (Travaux et Recherches dans les Amériques de Centre). 61: 41-61. 2012.
"L’industrie de la migration. Organiser la mobilité dans le système migratoire Mexique-États-Unis." Hommes et Migrations. 1296: 34-44. 2012.
"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_rueda...
"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).
Current Courses by Term
International Migration
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Special Topics in Sociology
Teaching Apprentice Practicum
Previous Courses by Term
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
Special Topics in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
Working Group in Sociology
International Migration
Working Group in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Working Group in Sociology
International Migration
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
International Migration
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
Special Topics in Sociology
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Chicana and Chicano Studies
International Migration
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
Special Topics in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Chicana and Chicano Studies
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
International Migration
Special Topics in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Variable Topics Research Seminars: Sociology
International Migration
Special Topics in Sociology
Working Group in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Working Group in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
International Migration
Theory and Research in Sociology
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
International Migration
Theory and Research in Sociology
Working Group in Sociology
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
International Migration
Undergraduate Seminar: Mexican Society
International Migration
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Special Topics in Sociology
Working Group in Sociology
Special Topics in Sociology
Undergraduate Seminar: Mexican Society
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Acculturation and Assimilation
Variable Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies
Special Topics in Sociology
Undergraduate Seminar: Mexican Society
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Immigration
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
International Migration
Comparative Immigration
Undergraduate Seminar: Mexican Society
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Immigration
Undergraduate Seminar: Mexican Society
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Comparative Immigration
Undergraduate Seminar
Undergraduate Seminar
Special Topics in Sociology
Comparative Immigration
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International Migration
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Variable Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies
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Comparative Immigration
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