Research Seminars on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico Relations
Spring Quarter 2007
MEXICO AND ASIA:
PUBLIC OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY
 Ms. Guadalupe González, Professor of International Relations at CIDE, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, A.C. will speak on the role of public opinion in Latin America in shaping Latin-Asian relations in the 21rst Century. Ms. González specializes in Comparative International Relations of Latin America, Security Studies, and Public Opinion and Foreign Policy.
 Mr. Sergio Ley, former Mexican Ambassador to China and Pacific Leadership Fellow, will offer commentary on this critical topic. Mr. Ley has served as Director General for The Pacific and Asia for the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was ambassador to Indonesia from 1997 to 2001 and ambassador to China from 2001 until 2006.
Tuesday, May 29th
Weaver Conference Center
Institute of the Americas Complex
Sponsored by The Center on Pacific Economies, the Mexican Consulate General of San Diego and the Center for US-Mexican Studies
Research Seminar
SELECTIVE OVERSIGHT, TRUNCATED ACCOUNTABILITY:
LEGISLATIVE CONTROL OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN MEXICO
Alejandra Rios-Cazares is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at UCSD and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies. She earned her BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in 2000 and her MA in Political Science from UCSD in 2004. She served as coordinator of the national research project on accountability and rule of law titles Justice in Mexico in 2005-2006. Alejandra Ríos-Cazares will discuss the determinants of legislative oversight of bureaucratic agencies in developing presidential democracies; specifically, factors that affect legislators’ involvement in making bureaucratic agencies accountable. She analyzes the effect of electoral competition on legislators’ incentives to control bureaucratic agencies and presents empirical evidence for a comparative analysis of Mexican states.
Wednesday, June 6
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
Reception to Follow
FROM THE TEXAS PROVISO TO THE HOFFMAN PLASTICS:
EMPLOYER POWER AND THE SUBVERSION OF
WORKPLACE IMMIGRANT ENFORCEMENT
 Peter Brownell earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and Immigration and an M.A. in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Brownell is currently completing research as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at UCSD and expects to receive his Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2007. He will present a detailed examination of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, exploring employer sanction provisions and their transformation from policies directed against employers hiring unauthorized immigrants into practices and precedents that deny those workers remedies for discriminatory or retaliatory firing. Brownell argues that sanctions have become another of many policies that strip immigrants’ rights and create perverse incentives for employers to hire unauthorized immigrants.
Wednesday, May 30th
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND
URBAN-URBAN MIGRATION FLOWS IN MEXICO
 Dr. Enrique Pérez Campuzano received his masters degree in Planning Studies at the Universidad Autóma Metropolitana and his PhD in Geography at UNAM. He is currently working as a researcher at the Centro Interdisciplinario en Investigaciones sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). His major research interests include regional and urban restructuring in Mexico, environmental impacts of urban growth and sprawl, urban planning, and urban-urban migration. His current seminar presents results of an ongoing project to explain how urban to urban movements have displaced rural-urban translocations as the primary migration phenomenon affecting Mexico's demography today. Using multilevel regression analysis, Dr. Campuzano reveals the importance of individual and contextual factors in determining the volume and direction of inter-urban migration.
Wednesday, May 23rd
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
MEXICANS ON THE MOVE: DEVELOPMENT, POLICIES AND SELECTIVITY OF MIGRATION
 Dr. Rene Zenteno recieved a M.A. in Demography at El Colegio de Mexico and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. In addition to giving classes at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Dr. Zenteno serves as Executive Director of the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies. His current research examines how contemporary upsurges in Mexican migration occur within a context of growing labor and capital markets disparities between Mexico and the United States and escalating regional polarization of economic and social opportunities in Mexico. His seminar offers a panoramic view of Mexican migration and its connection with inequality and politics, seeking to examine how inequality affects decisions to migrate, rates of migration and characteristics of migrants.
Wednesday, May 16th
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
AUTHORITY, IDEOLOGY AND TEOTIHUACAN STATE EXPANSION IN CENTRAL MEXICO,
ca. 400 B.C. - 600 A.D.
 Dr. David Carballo earned his BA in political science from Colgate University in 1995, and his MA (2001) and PhD (2005) in anthropology from UCLA. He was a Lecturer in the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Anthropology in 2005-2006, and is a Research Associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Dr. Carballo synthesizes several of his recent research projects in central Mexico to detail how political authority was constituted at Teotihuacan, the early state capital and UNESCO World Heritage Site. He combines perspectives derived from new excavations at Teotihuacan with excavations and GIS analyses from neighboring northern Tlaxcala, and provides an updated assessment of Teotihuacano state formation and political expansion.
Wednesday, May 9th
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
EXPLAINING GLOBALIZATION: MEXICO'S PATHWAY TO NAFTA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
 Dr. Malcolm Fairbrother received his PhD in sociology at Berkeley in December of 2006, having developed his dissertation through fieldwork at the Centre on North American Politics and Society at Carleton University, the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown. Dr. Fairbrother's work tests current theories on the causes of globalization to develop a finer understanding of dynamic increases in cross-border flows and trade and investment in the late 20th and early 21rst Century. His research seminar will explore what social scientists currently know about the causes of economic globalization, examining the case of Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Wednesday, May 2nd
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
UN/SEQUINED CORPOREALITIES AND THE POLITICS OF LATINIDAD IN SALSA CLUBS
 Dr. Cindy García explores how the politics of Mexican immigration affect configurations of Latina-ness in Los Angeles salsa clubs. Through choreographic analyses of salsa practices, she theorizes nightclub hierarchies of gender, race, class, and nation among Latinas/os. Dr. García recieved her Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from UCLA and has taught courses on Politics of Salsa and Urban Anthropology. Her current project, Salsa Across Borders: Dancing Mexican-ness, Latinidad, and American-ness in México, D.F., embarks on an ethnographic analysis of social performances to focus on how local salsa economies are inextricably linked to translocal international exchanges in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Wednesday, April 11
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
THE INEQUALITY TRAP AND ITS LINKS TO LOW GROWTH IN MEXICO
 Dr. Luis Felipe López-Calva recieved his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in 1999 and attended Harvard University for one year as an Ivy League Exchange Scholar. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and as the advisor to the Vice Minister of Budget Planning, Ministry of Finance in Mexico. Since September 2006, López-Calva has been at Stanford University’s Center for International Development, as a visiting scholar. He currently teaches Latin America Economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).
Wednesday, April 4
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
Click Here for PDF of Dr. López-Calva's Paper
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