Jorge A. BustamanteJorge A. Bustamante

Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Sociology
(PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1975)
304 Hesburgh Center
574-631-3820
email: jbustama@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~soc2/socfac/bustamante/jbustamante.html

Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)

Thematic interests: International migration; border settlements; Mexico-US migration.

Current research: Founder and former president of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues.

Selected publications: La Migración mexicana a Estados Unidos y el voto de los mexicanos en el extranjero(2006); “La construcción social de la vulnerabilidad de los Migrantes,” in Dirk Godenau and Vicente Zapata Hernández, eds., La inmigración irregular; Aproximación multidisciplinar (2005); “La Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza (Cocef): Un Caso de Federalismo Internacional,” Revista Integración & Comercio.  Also, numerous studies on the sociology of the border region between the United States and Mexico and on US residents of Mexican-origin.


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