CMD regularly invites scholars from around the world to undertake research activities that will enhance their current scholarly work. These individuals include senior scholars spending a sabbatical year as well as current graduate students and new post-doctoral candidates.

We welcome these new or returning fellows and researchers for 2008-09:

Amado Alarcon, Visiting Fellow, Universidad Rovira I Virgili, Spain, will arrive in February to begin a project on social stratification and linguistic groups through an analysis of the relationships between Anglos and Hispanics in the U.S. labor market.

Josep-Antoni Ybarra, Visiting Fellow, University of Alicante, Spain, is currently the president of the Association of Valencian Regional Science. He is a specialist on economics and an expert on Islamic Economic and Industrial Policy. While at the CMD, he will continue his focus on international economic development.

David Capretta, Visiting Research Scholar, Instituto de Estudios Migratorios, Madrid, is working under the supervision of Alejandro Portes on the analytical phase of the ILSEG project (longitudinal study on the new second generation in Spain), in the framework of the CILS conclusions and the segmented assimilation theory. He was previously a member of the fieldwork team which collected the project data sets from second generation secondary school students in Madrid and Barcelona.

Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez is currently a Visiting Research Scholar with the CMD working as a research associate on the project "Immigration and the Health Care System: An Institutional Analysis" under the direction of Alejandro Portes, Principal Investigator, and funded by a Senior Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her areas of interest have focused on international migration and transnationalism, including historical patterns and global shifts, and the study of specific contexts of exit and reception. Particular interests focus on how world systemic forces shape transnationalism, the impact of transnational political involvement on national projects and identify formation, and how transnational relations challenge or reinforce power relations.

Donald Light, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Medicine of New Jersey, is working, in collaboration with other CMD-affiliated faculty, on a project on the relationships between the health-delivery system and the health needs of the new immigrant population. Three metropolitan areas have been targeted for this large comparative study: Miami, San Diego, and Trenton. The study will build on expertise in fieldwork with immigrant populations built by the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) and the Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project (CIEP).

Guadalupe Ortiz, Visiting Researcher from the University of Alicante, Spain, will focus her research on the development of participatory methodologies in tourism municipalities in southeastern Spain. Her visit to CMD will allow for a comparative analysis of the American and Spanish experience in participatory urban and tourism planning.

Orlando Trujillo-Irurita, Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France, will continue his dissertation research on Colombian transnational militancy networks in Paris, Caracas, and New York. He is focusing on the sociological aspects of transnational action and analyzing networks and immigration paths.