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Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars
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Kathryn Kopinak
Guest Scholar; Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario
In residence January 2005 - June 2005
kkopinak@ucsd.edu
Phone (858) 534-6065; Fax (858) 534-6447
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Expertise
Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Sociology of the Environment, Gender and Development, Sociology of Work and Occupations.
Regions of Interest
Mexico, U.S.-Mexican Border, Canada-U.S. Border, Canada, North American Great Lakes Region.
Current Project
The Complementary Relationship Between International Migration and Mexican Maquiladora Employment.
Publications
Editor and contributor to The Social Costs of Urban Growth in Northern Mexico, published by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2004.
"Hacia una Teoría de Maquiladoras Mexicanas que considere los Impactos al Ambiente" (co-authored with Saúl Guzmán García) forthcoming in Maquiladoras and the Environment edited by Claudia Schatan and Jorge Carrillo, published by CEPAL.
"Globalization in Tijuana Maquiladoras: Using Historical Antecedents and Migration to Test Globalization Models" Papeles de Población. 9 (37) 2003: 219-242.
Other publications can be found on line at http://publish.uwo.ca/~kopinak/recentpub.html
Academic Background:
A Canadian Sociologist who began formal research on northern Mexico in the early eighties when North America's old industrial heartland started to dramatically transfer production to the US-Mexico borderlands. Research in the last two decades has included the study of the labor process in Mexican maquiladora industries, the gendered division of labor in northern Mexico, environmental impacts of Mexican industrialization, the relationship between maquiladora employment and migration, and the influence of Mexican export industries on the growth and character of regional and global economies.
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