Jorge A. BustamanteJorge A. Bustamante

Eugene Conley Professor of Sociology
(PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1975)
304 Hesburgh Center
574-631-3820
email: jbustama@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/bustamante-jorge/index.shtml

Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)

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

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

Selected publications: Coauthor, “Extreme Vulnerability of Migrants: The Cases of the United States and Mexico Respectively,” in International Migrations Journal 6, 1 (2011);  coauthor, “La migración de México-Estados Unidos”, in Los grandes problemas de México,. Blanca Torres and Gustavo Vegas, coords. (El Colegio de México, 2008); also, numerous studies on the sociology of the border region between the United States and Mexico, and on US residents of Mexican origin.