Rubén G. RumbautProfessor of Sociology |
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| URLs | Network on Transitions to Adulthood | |
| The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society | ||
| The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS-III) | ||
| Comprehensive Bibliography: Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) | ||
| Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA) | ||
| Congressional Hearing on Comprehensive Immigration Reform | ||
| National Symposium on Immigration: “What Do We Know and What Do We need to Learn?” | ||
| ENCASA: U.S.-Cuba Policy | ||
| UC-Cuba Academic Initiative | ||
| Open Letter on Immigration and Crime | ||
| Sociology 234 | ||
| Sociology 63 | ||
| IHARP and SARYS Dataverse: Southeast Asian Refugee Studies, 1980s | ||
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Academic Distinctions |
Distinguished Scholarship (Sorokin) Award, American Sociological Association W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki Award, American Sociological Association Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Resident Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City Founding Chair, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association Elected member, Council of the American Sociological Association Elected member, Sociological Research Association Elected member, General Social Survey Board of Overseers Member, Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences Member, MacArthur Research Network on Adult Transitions and Public Policy Member, Committee on International Migration, Social Science Research Council |
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Research Abstract |
Rubén G. Rumbaut joined the UCI Sociology Department in July 2002. Since 1991 he has directed (with Alejandro Portes) the landmark Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), which has followed the trajectories into early adulthood of thousands of youth representing dozens of different nationalities, primarily from Latin America and Asia. He also directs, in collaboration with a team of UC colleagues, a large-scale study of Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA); and is involved in comparative research on transitions to adulthood, with multi-ethnic samples in San Diego and other field sites across the United States. Throughout the 1980s he conducted several of the principal studies of the resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (including the IHARP and SARYS projects). In the 1990s, he served as academic advisor for the PBS television series "Americas," focusing on Latin American and Caribbean societies, as well as on Mexicans, Cubans and Puerto Ricans in the United States. And to date he has continued to examine the Cuban diaspora, the history of U.S.-Cuba relations, and factors affecting the future of Cuba. His research has focused on types of immigrants and refugees and their contexts of exit and reception, intergenerational differences in adaptation, bilingualism and language loss, ethnic identity, citizenship and national membership, infant health and mortality, fertility, socioeconomic mobility, educational achievement and aspirations, crime and incarceration, depression and self-esteem, and paradoxes of assimilation—-as well as immigration policies and politics, and the social origins of immigration scholars. He has testified before the U.S. Congress at hearings on comprehensive immigration reform, and lectured widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia on immigration issues. He is the author of more than one hundred scientific papers on immigrants and refugees in the U.S., and coauthor or coeditor of a dozen books, including "Immigrant America: A Portrait" (new 3rd edition, 2006) and "Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation," the latter of which won the 2002 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and the 2002 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for best book in the immigration field. As a member of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences (with Marta Tienda et al.) he worked on two volumes on the Hispanic population of the United States, recently published by the National Academies Press: "Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies," and "Hispanics and the Future of America." He also edits (with Steven J. Gold) a research-oriented book series, "The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society" (LFB Scholarly Publishing); under their editorship more than fifty titles have been published since 2002 on a wide range of immigration topics. | |
| Publications | Immigration’s Complexities, Assimilation’s Discontents. Contexts, 2008. | |
| Paradise Shift: Immigration, Mobility and Inequality in Southern California. Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2008. | ||
| The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation. IPC, 2007. | ||
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On the Past and Future of American Immigration and Ethnic History. Journal of American Ethnic History, 2006. |
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| Immigrant America: A Portrait (with Alejandro Portes). New third edition, revised, expanded, and updated. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. | ||
| Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future (with Marta Tienda et al.). Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006. | ||
| The Second Generation in Early Adulthood (with Alejandro Portes). Special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28, 6, 2005. | ||
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On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (with Rick Settersten and Frank Furstenberg). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (with Alejandro Portes). Berkeley and New York: University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (with Alejandro Portes). Berkeley and New York: University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (with Nancy Foner and Steven J. Gold). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America (with Silvia Pedraza). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1996. California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research, and Implications for Educational Policy (with Wayne Cornelius). La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1995. |
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| Grants | ||
| Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles. Russell Sage Foundation. | ||
| The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade Long Panel Study. Russell Sage Foundation. | ||
| Ethnic Mobility and Inequality in Southern California. Russell Sage Foundation. | ||
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Professional Society |
American Sociological Association |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4999 | |
| Last updated | 09/17/2009 | |