Roger Waldinger, Professor (Ph.D. Harvard) works on international migration to the United States: its social, political, and economic consequences; the policies and politics emerging in response to its advent; the links between immigrants in the United States and the countries and people they have left behind. He is currently involved in two broad, ongoing research projects. The first focuses on the trajectory of the contemporary second generation of immigrant offspring, in light of the experience of the past; the second, on the political sociology of international migration, seeks to show how the inherently political nature of international migration shapes migrant action as well as host society responses. Recent publications and forthcoming papers include: “Foreigners Transformed: International Migration and the Making of a Divided People,” Diaspora, (2003): 12, 2: 247-72; “Transnationalism in Question,” co-authored with David Fitzgerald, American Journal of Sociology, V 109, 5 (2004): 1177-95; “The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners into Americans in 21st Century Los Angeles,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, forthcoming; and “Did Manufacturing Matter? The experience of yesterday’s second generation: a reassessment”, International Migration Review, forthcoming.

Waldinger served as Chair of the Department of Sociology from 1999-2004; he directed the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UCLA School of Public Affairs from 1995-1998. He is a regular instructor in the year-long graduate, sociology seminar on international migration in comparative perspective. I have taught all three quarters: the first, on theory, history, and policy; the second, on economic and social incorporation; the third, a research seminar. He is also co-organizer of the “Migration Study Group,” a year-long speaker series featuring interdisciplinary talks on international migration.