CMD welcomes new fellows and research associates for 2007-08:

Francisco Diaz Bretones, Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Psychology of the University of Granada, will be in residence at CMD from December 2007 through August 2008. During his stay, he will be conducting research on enterprising behavior among Hispanic immigrants with primary focus on the psycho-social factors that affect and produce heterogeneity in it.

Margarita Cervantes, Professor of International and Latin American Studies, Albany University, will be working on her book on historical patterns of Cuban migration and collaborating with Alejandro Portes and Donald Light on a new study of Immigration and the U.S. Health System.

Jorge Durand, Professor of Sociology at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, will be working with Douglas Massey on new additions to their Mexican Migration Project (MMP) and Latin American Migration Project (LAMP).

Cristina Escobar, Ph.D., University of University of California - San Diego, is working with Alejandro Portes as a research associate in the second phase of the Comparative Immigrant Organizations Project (CIOP) with a focus on the role of Latin immigrant organizations on the political incorporation process of their respective nationalities.

Donald Light, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Medicine of New Jersey, will join Alejandro Portes as director of the New Jersey segment of a new study on Immigration and the U.S. Health System, conducted with support from a Senior Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.