ROGER
WALDINGER
Department of Sociology
UCLA
Haines
Hall 264
Los
Angeles, CA 90095
phone:
310-206-9233
fax:
310-206-9838
e-mail:
waldinge@soc.ucla.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
Brown University, B.A. (Honors in History,
magna cum laude), 1974.
Harvard University, Ph.D. (Sociology), 1983.
Academic Employment:
Chair,
Department of Sociology, UCLA, 1999-2004
Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy
Studies, UCLA, 1995-1998
Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA,
1990-present
Assistant to Professor, Department of
Sociology, The City College-City University of New York,
1983-1991
Appointment to Graduate Faculty in
Sociology, Graduate School and University Center, City
University of New York, 1987.
Publications:
Books:
How the Other Half Works:
Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor, (with
Michael Lichter), Chapter 1, University of California Press
2003.
Strangers at the
Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America, Chapter 1, UC
Press 2001.
Still the Promised City? New
Immigrants and African-Americans in Post-Industrial New York,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Chapter 5 reprinted as
"Who Gets the Lousy Jobs," in
Peter Kivisto and Georganne Rundblad, eds.,
Multiculturalism in the United States, Thousand
Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2000.
Chapter 9 reprinted as
"The New Urban Reality" in
Norman Yetman, ed.,
Majority and Minority: The Dynamics of Race and
Ethnicity in American Life, sixth edition (Boston:
Allyn and Bacon, 1999);
as “Beyond Black and White,” in Harry Goulbourne, ed.,
Race and Ethnicity: Critical Concepts in Sociology,
London: Routledge, 2001.
Portions of Chapter 1 reprinted as "Still the
Promised City? New Immigrants and African-Americans in
Post-Industrial New York," in David Grusky, ed.,
Social Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender in
Sociological Perspective, Boulder, Colo: Westview,
2001.
Ethnic Los Angeles,
edited with Mehdi Bozorgmehr, New York: Russell Sage
Foundation Press, 1996.
Through the Eye of the Needle:
Immigrants and Enterprise in New York's Garment Trades
(New York University Press, 1986; paper, 1989).
Ethnic Entrepreneurs:
Immigrant Business in Industrial Society (with
Howard Aldrich, Robin Ward, and associates; Newbury Park,
CA: Sage, 1990).
Chapter 1 reprinted as "Ethnic Entrepreneurs,"
in Richard Swedberg, ed., Entrepreneurship, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 356-388.
Journals:
Guest Editor, Special New York/London issue of New
Community, V. 14, 1, 1988.
Articles:
"Between 'here'
and 'there': Immigrant cross-border activities and
loyalties,"
International Migration Review,
Vol. 42 No. 1 Spring 2008.
"Conflict and Contestation in the Cross-Border Community:
Hometown Associations Re-assessed,” (co-authored with Eric
Popkin and Hector Aquiles Magana), Ethnic and Racial
Studies, forthcoming.
“The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners into Americans in
21st
Century Los Angeles,” Ethnic and Racial Studies,
V. 30, 7 (2007): 341-374.
“Bad jobs, good jobs, no jobs? The employment experience of
the “new” second generation,” (with Nelson Lim and David
Cort),
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, V. 33, 1
(2007): 1-35.
“Did Manufacturing Matter? The experience of yesterday’s
second generation: a reassessment”, International
Migration Review, V. 41, 1 (Spring 2007): 3-39.
“Strangeness at the Gates: The Peculiar Politics of
Immigration,” (co-authored with Nazgol Ghandnoosh)
International Migration Review, V. 40, 3 (2006):
719-734.
Fiddling While the Border Festers: The Dim Prospects for
Immigration Reform, New Labor Forum, V. 15,
2 (2006):21-29.
“Le ‘transnationalisme’ des immigrants et presence du
passé,”
Revue Europeene des Migrations Internationales, V. 22, 2
(2006) : 23-42.
reprinted in :
“Immigrant ‘Transnationalism’ and the Presence of the
Past,” in Elliott Barkan, et. al., eds.
Borders, Boundaries, And Bonds: America And Its
Immigrants In Eras Of Globalization, New York: New
York University Press, forthcoming.
“Will the new second generation experience ‘downward
assimilation’? Segmented assimilation re-assessed,”
(with Cynthia Feliciano) Ethnic and Racial Studies,
V. 27, 3 (2004): 376-402.
“Transnationalism in Question,” (with David Fitzgerald)
American Journal of Sociology, V. 109, 5 (2004): 1177-95
“Temporarily foreign? The labor market for
migrant professionals in high tech at the peak of the boom,”
(with Christopher L. Erickson),
Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, V. 24, 3 (2004),
463-86.
"Not the Promised City? Los
Angeles and its Immigrants," Pacific Historical
Review, V. 68, 2, 1999, pp. 253-272
"Are the Children of Today's
Immigrants Making It?" (with Joel Perlmann), The
Public Interest, Number 132, Summer 1998, pp. 73-96.
reprinted in: Stephen Steinberg, edited, Race
and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates,
2000)
"Second Generations: Past,
Present, Future" (with Joel Perlmann), Journal of Ethnic
and Migration Studies, V. 24, 1, 1998.
in slightly modified form in: Janet Abu-Lughod,
edited, Sociology for the Twenty-first Century:
Continuities and Cutting Edges, 1999)
"Second Generation Decline?
Immigrant Children Past and Present -- A Reconsideration"
(with Joel Perlmann), International Migration
Review, V. 31, no. 4, 1997.
in slightly modified form in: Charles Hirschman,
Philip Kasinitz, Josh De Wind, eds., The Handbook of
International Migration: The American Experience,
1999)
"Black/Immigrant Competition
Re-Assessed: New Evidence from Los Angeles,"
Sociological Perspectives, V. 40, 2, 1997.
"From Ellis Island to LAX:
Immigrant Prospects in the American City,"
International Migration Review, V. 30, 4, 1996.
"The Other Side of Embeddedness:
A Case Study of the Interplay of Economics and Ethnicity,"
Ethnic and Racial Studies, V. 18, 3 1995.
"Le Debat sur 'Enclave Ethnique",
Revue Europeene des Migrations Internationales, V.
9. no. 2, 1993, pp. 15-29.
"The Making of an Immigrant
Niche,"
International Migration Review, V. 28, 1 (1994),
pp. 3-30.
"Immigrants' Progress:
Ethnic and Gender Differences among U.S. Immigrants in the
1980s"
(with Greta Gilbertson), Sociological Perspectives,
V. 37, 2 (1993), pp. 431-444.
"The Two Sides of Ethnic
Entrepreneurship: Reply to Bonacich," International
Migration Review, V. 27, 3, 1993, pp. 692-701.
"The Ethnic Enclave Debate
Revisited,"
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,
V. 17, 3, 1993: 428-436.
reprinted in: T.M. Shapiro, ed., Great Divides:
Reading in Social Inequality in the United States,
Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000: 287-94.
"Back to the Sweatshop or
Ahead to the Informal Sector?" (with Michael Lapp),
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, V.
17, 1, 1993, pp. 6-29.
"Divergent Diasporas: The
Chinese Communities of New York and Los Angeles Compared,"
(with Yenfen Tseng), Revue Europeene des Migrations
Internationales, V. 8, 3, 1992: 91-116.
"La politique de developpment
des entreprises issues des minorites aux Etats-Unis: etude
critique", Revue Europeene des Migrations
Internationales, V. 8, 1 (1992): 139-153.
"Taking Care of the Guests:
The Impact of Immigrants on Services -- An Industry Case
Study," International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, V. 16, 1, (March) 1992.
"Primary, Secondary, and
Enclave Labor Markets: A Training Systems Approach,"
(with Thomas Bailey), American Sociological Review,
V. 56, 4 (August) 1991: 432-445.
"The Continuing Significance of
Race: Racial Conflict and Racial Discrimination in
Construction,"
(with Thomas Bailey), Politics and Society, V. 19,
3 (1991): 291-323.
"Re-slicing the Big
Apple: New Immigrants and African Americans in the New York
Economy,"
(with Thomas Bailey), Policy Studies Review, V
11,2, 1992: 87-96.
"Why Immigrants Stay in Fashion,"
(with Michael Lapp), Policy Studies Review, V 11,
2, 1992: 97-105.
"Ethnicity and
Entrepreneurship"
(with Howard Aldrich), Annual Review of Sociology,
V. 16, 1990.
reprinted in: Dieter Boegenhold, ed., Moderne
Amerikanische Soziologie, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius,
2000: 243-78.
"Immigration and Urban
Change,"
Annual Review of Sociology, V. 15, 1989, pp.
211-232.
"Structural Opportunity
and Ethnic Advantage. Immigrant Business in New York,"
International Migration Review, V. 23, 1, 1989.
"Immigrants, Minorities and the Paradoxes of Plenty,"
Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines, July 1989, no. 41.
"Ethnic Minorities in New York and
London" (with Robin Ward), New Community, V. 14,
1, 1988.
"The Ethnic Division of Labor
Transformed: Native Minorities and New Immigrants in
Post-Industrial New York," New Community, V. 14,
1, 1988.
"Changing Ladders and
Musical Chairs: Ethnicity and Opportunity in Post-Industrial
New York," Politics and Society, V. 15, 4, 1986-7
reprinted in: Norman Yetman, ed. Majority and
Minority: Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in American
Life, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, fifth edition, 1991.
"Minorities and
Immigrants - Struggle in the Job Market," Dissent,
Fall 1987
reprinted in: Jim Sleeper, ed., In Search Of
New York, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books.
"Beyond Nostalgia: The Old
Neighborhood Revisited," New York Affairs, V. 10,
1, 1987.
"Immigrant Enterprise: A Critique and Reformulation,"
Theory and Society, V. 15, 1, 1986.
"Minority Business
Development in Industrial Society," European Studies
Newsletter
(with Howard Aldrich and Robin Ward), March 1985.
"Ethnic Business and
Occupational Mobility in Advanced Societies: A Trend Report"
(with Howard Aldrich and Robin Ward) Sociology, V.
19, 4, 1985.
"The Youth Employment Problem
in the World City" (with Thomas Bailey) Social Policy,
V. 16, 1, 1985.
"Immigrant Enterprise in
the New York Garment Industry," Social Problems,
V. 32, 1, 1984.
"Is There a Skills Mismatch?"
(with Thomas Bailey) New York Affairs, V. 8, 3, 1984.
"The Economic and Occupational
Integration of the New Immigrants," Law and
Contemporary Problems, V. 45, 2, 1982.
Book Chapters
"Today's Second Generation: Getting Ahead or Falling
Behind?," (with Renee Reichl), in Michael Fix, ed.
Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A
Reader, Washington, D.C.: Migration Policy Institute,
2007, 17-41.
“Transforming Foreigners into Americans,” Pp. 137-48 in
Mary Waters and Reed Ueda, eds., The New Americans,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
“The 21st Century: An Entirely New Story,” in Tamar
Jacoby, ed.,
Reinventing the Melting Pot: Will Today's Immigrants
Become Americans?, New York: Basic, 2003, pp. 75-85.
“The Sociology of Immigration: Second Thoughts and
Reconsiderations,”
in
Host Societies and the Reception
of Immigrants, edited
by Jeffrey G. Reitz. San Diego: Center for Comparative
Immigration Research, 2003, pp. 21-43.
“Networks
and Niches: The Continuing Significance of Ethnic
Connections”
in
Glenn Loury,
Tariq Modood and Steven Teles, Race, Ethnicity and Social
Mobility in the US and UK, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003, pp. 343-362.
“Migrants and Urban Labour Markets in Europe and North
America” (with Malcolm Cross), in Migrants,
Minorities and Urban Transformations in Comparative
Perspective, edited by Malcolm Cross and Robert Moore,
London: Macmillan, 2002.
“Producing Conflict: Immigration and the Management of
Diversity in the Multiethnic Metropolis,” (with Michael Lichter) in John Skrentny, ed., Color Lines: Affirmative
Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
"Immigrant Workers and
American Labor: Challenge….or Disaster?" (with Claudia
Der-Martirosian), in Ruth Milkman, ed., Organizing
Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary
California, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University
Press, 2000, pp. 49-80.
“The Economic Theory of Ethnic Conflict: A Review and
Reformulation,” in Jan Rath, ed., pp. 124-141 in: Jan
Rath (ed.), Immigrant Businesses: The Economic, Political
and Social Environment (Migration, Minorities and
Citizenship Series) Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire:
Macmillan Press, 2000
"Economic Integration and
Labour Market change" (with Malcolm Cross), in Jan
Hjarno, ed., From Metropolis to Cosmopolis, South
Jutland University Press, 1999, pp 29-93.
"Los Angeles," in Jan
Hjarno, ed., From Metropolis to Cosmopolis, South
Jutland University Press, 1999, pp 263-289.
"Immigration and the American
City," in Ida Simon-Barouh and Veronique De Rudder,
Migrations internationales and relations interethniques:
Recherche, politique, et societe, Paris, Harmattan,
1999, pp. 190-233.
"Network, Bureaucracy,
Exclusion: Recruitment and Selection in an Immigrant
Metropolis,"
in Frank Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose, ed., Immigration
and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the
United States, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999,
pp. 228-259.
"Helots No More -- A Case
Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign" (first
author with Chris Erickson, Ruth Milkman, Daniel J.B.
Mitchell, Abel Valenzuela, Kent Wong, and Maurice Zeitlin),
in Kate Bronfenbrenner, et. al., eds. Organizing to Win,
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997; abridged
version as "Justice for Janitors," Dissent, Winter 1997, pp.
37-44.
"The Economic Theory of
Ethnic Conflict: A Review and Reformulation," in Jan
Rath, ed., pp. 124-141 in: Jan Rath (ed.), Immigrant
Businesses: The Economic, Political and Social Environment
(Migration, Minorities and Citizenship Series) Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 2000
"Immigrant Integration in the
PostIndustrial Metropolis: A View from the United States,"
Proceedings, First International Metropolis
Conference, Iniziative e lo Studio sulla Multietnicita,
Milan, 1997, pp. 34-47.
"California's Immigration,"
in Xandra Kayden, ed., California Policy Options
1997, Los Angeles: UCLA Policy Forum and the UCLA
Business Forecasting Project, pp. 95-116.
"Immigration", A chapter for the Calhoun/Ritzer Primis
database series Perspectives, New York: McGraw-Hill,
1997.
"Introduction" (co-authored with Mehdi Bozorgmehr), in Roger
Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, eds., Ethnic Los Angeles,
Russell Sage Foundation Press.
"White
Ethnics and Anglos" (co-authored with Michael Lichter), in
Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, eds., Ethnic Los
Angeles, Russell Sage Foundation Press.
"Conclusion: Ethnicity and Opportunity in the Plural City,”
in Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, eds., Ethnic Los
Angeles, Russell Sage Foundation Press.
Reprinted in Marcelo Suarez-Orosco et. al, eds.
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on the New Immigration,
New York: Routledge, 2001.
"Who Makes the Beds? Who
Washes the Dishes? Black/Immigrant Competition Reassessed,"
in Harriet Orcutt Duleep and Phanindra V. Wunnava, eds.,
Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills,
Family Ties, and Group Identities, Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press, 1996, pp. 265-88.
"The New Immigrants,"
(co-authored with Thomas Bailey), in Eli Ginzberg, ed.,
The Changing U.S. Labor Market, Boulder, Colo:
Westview Press, 1994.
"Ethnische Gruppen in
Konflikt: Iren, Juden, Schwarze, und Koreaner," in
Hartmut Hausserman and Walter Siebel, eds., New York -
Structuren einer Stadt, Suhrkamp Verlag: 1993.
"Comment: Social Structure
and Business Opportunity" in George Peterson and Wayne
Vroman, eds., Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunity,
Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, forthcoming.
"When the Melting Pot Boils
Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York
City,"
in Joe Feagin and Michael P. Smith, eds. The Bubbling
Cauldron: The New Political Economy of Race and Ethnicity,
University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
"Migrants, Minorities, and
the Ethnic Division of Labor," in Michael Harloe, Ian
Gordon, and Susan Fainstein, eds. A Tale of Two Cities:
London and New York Compared (London: Blackwell,
forthcoming).
excerpted and reprinted in, John Allen and Chris
Hamnett, A Shrinking World? Global Unevenness and
Inequality, Milton Keynes, England: Open University
Press, 1995.
"Economic Change and the
Ethnic Division of Labor" (with Thomas Bailey), in John
Mollenkopf, ed. The Dual City (New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 1991).
"Le Developpement des
entreprises ethniques a New York," Pp. 227-236 in G.
Abou Sada, B. Courault, Z Zeroulou, eds. L'Immigration au
Tournant, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1991.
"New York-Chinatown: la
deuxieme chance de la confection," Pp. 63-70 in Isaac
Joseph, ed., Commerces et commercants etrangers dans la
ville, Paris: Ministere de l'Equipement, du Logement,
des Transports, et de la Mer.
"Immigrant Business in the
United States," Chapter 15 in Sharon Zukin and Paul
Dimaggio, eds. Structures of Capital (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1990).
"Race and Ethnicity,"
Pp. 50-79 in Charles Brecher and Raymond Horton, eds.
Setting Municipal Priorities (New York: New York
University Press, 1989).
"New Immigrants, Blacks, and
the Economic Restructuring of New York," in Malcolm
Cross, ed. Ethnic Minorities and Industrial Change
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992.)
"Immigrant Enterprise and
the Structure of the Labor Market," In Brian Roberts,
Duncan Gallie, and Ruth Finnegan, eds., New Approaches to
Economic Life (University of Manchester Press, 1985).
"Another Look at the ILGWU:
Women, Industry Structure and Patterns of Collective
Action,"
in Ruth Milkman, ed. Women in 20th Century Labor
History
(Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1985).
"Immigration and Industrial
Change," in Marta Tienda and George Borjas, eds.
Hispanics in the U.S. Economy (New York: Academic Press,
1985).
"The Economic and
Occupational Integration of the New Immigrants," in
Richard Hofstetter, ed. American Immigration Policy
(Duke University Press, 1983).
Book reviews
Stephane Dufoix,
LEx Diasporas, Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 2003; International Migration Review, V. 41,
1 (Spring 2007): 284-286.
“Why
the poor stay poor,” Review of The Color of Opportunity:
Pathways to Family, Welfare, and Work by Haya Stier and
Marta Tienda, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Civil Rights Journal 6.1 (Wntr
2002): 82(3).
In-Jin
Yoon, On My Own: korean Businesses and Race Relations in
America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997,
Contemporary Sociology, V. 27 (1998): 356-357.
William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: the World of
the New Urban Poor, New York: Vintage, 1997, The New
Democrat, V 8, 6, 1996.
Louise
Lamphere, Alex Stepick and Guillermo Grenier, Newcomers
in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the
U.S. economy, Philadelphia : Temple University Press,
1994, Journal of American Ethnic History, V 15, 4
(1996): 76-68.
Andres
Torres, Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African Americans
and Puerto Ricans in the New York Political Economy,
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995,
Journal of American Ethnic History,
V 15, 2 (1996): 100-101.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Rabb, Jews and the
American Scene, Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1995, New Community, V 22, 1, p. 174.
Peter
Kivisto and Dag Blanck, eds. American Immigrants and
their Generations: studies and commentaries on the Hansen
thesis after fifty years, Urbana : University of
Illinois Press, 1990,
Ethnic
and Racial studies,
V.
16, 737-738
Charles Brecher and Raymond D. Horton, with Robert A. Cropg
and Dean Michael Mead, Power Failure: New York City
Politics and Policy since 1980, New York Oxford
University Press, 1993; Chris McNickle, To be Mayor of
New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, Contemporary
Sociology, V. 23, 262-263.
Ethnic
America,
by Thomas Sowell, New York: Basic, 1981, Social Policy,
Summer 1982: 57-60.
Major
Extra-Mural Grants
Russell Sage Foundation,
“Pathways to
Political Incorporation: Exploring the Relationship Between
“Here” and “There”, November 2005-March 2006,
$34,000.
California Policy Seminar, Ethnic California, $34,269, July
1, 1998 to June 30, 1999
Rosenberg Foundation, “Organizing Immigrant Workers in
Southern California,” 1997-99 $62,124
Ford
Foundation, “Immigration and the American City,” 1996-99,
$400,000
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation, “Studies of Immigrants in the Science
and Engineering Complex in California,” 1996-98, $165,108
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, “Contemporary Immigration to the United
States,” $87,582, 1994-95
Russell Sage Foundation, “Ethnic Los Angeles,” 1993-94,
$55,000
Andrew
Mellon Foundation, “Ethnic Los Angeles,” 1993-94, $55,000
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation, “Immigrant and Native Engineers in
California,” 1993-95, $99,830
John
Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, “Immigrants and
the Los Angeles Economy,” 1992-94, $124,745
Awards
Honorable Mention, 2004 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for the
best book (How the Other Half Works), International
Migration Section, American Sociological Association
1998 Robert
E. Park Award, Urban and Community Sociology Section,
American Sociological Assocation, for Still the Promised
City?
1997 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for the best book (Ethnic
Los Angeles), International Migration Section, American
Sociological Association
Urban Politics Best Urban Politics Book 1996 Award (for
Still the Promised City?), Urban Politics Section,
American Political Science Association.
Honorable mention, 1996 book awards competition,
Association of American Publishers Professional and
Scholarly Publishing Division (for Still the Promised
City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in PostIndustrial
New York)
Editorial services
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Associate Editor, Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies
Correspondant, Revue Europeene des Migrations
Internationales
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