Mexican Immigrants in Ohio

From 2008-2010, I carried out research with a group of Mexican immigrants from the state of Michoacán living in Clark County, Ohio. My master’s thesis dealt conceptions of stability and settlement decisions. From the abstract:

Starting in the 1990s, immigrants began to settle throughout the United States, often moving to new destinations far from the traditional receiving communities. This paper is a case study of Clark County, Ohio, which has seen its immigrant population grow rapidly in the past two decades, with many of these newcomers coming from the small town of El Saúz de Abajo in the state of Michoacán. Many in this group express a strong sense of stability in their lives in this new destination and I ask what people mean when they express this sentiment. This paper argues that the sense of stability people express is complex and that it can only be understood relative to their past experiences.

The full thesis is available here.

Researcher for Professor John Skrentny

During the 2009-2010 academic year, I was a research for Professor John Skrentny. I contributed research for several different projects, one of which was the chapter that Dr. Skrentny wrote for the book Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama’s First Two Years.

Researcher for ippr Report on British Diaspora

During 2009, I was a researcher on a study of the British diaspora carried out by the think tank ippr (Institute for Public Policy Research). I conducted interviews with British people living in the United States, covering topics such as settlement decisions, social networks, contact with the UK government abroad, and others. The final report is available here.