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David KyleAssociate ProfessorPh.D., Johns Hopkins University Curriculum Vitae
Phone: 752-1582 Office hours: R 10-12, or by apt. |
Research Interests
- International Migration/ Diaspora and Ethnicity
- Economic Sociology
- Law and Society
- Global Comparative Sociology
Books
- Kyle, David Co-edited with Rey Koslowski. 2001. Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Kyle, David. 2000. Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Current Projects
- Analyzing and writing up longitudinal survey data (ten years) on the evolving transnational migration patterns from Ecuador to the U.S. and Europe.
- Conducting research on the meso-level for-profit migration industries and non-profit organizational infrastructures playing a central role in the development of Sacramento as one the the most ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. (according to a Harvard Study). This multi-year study, "Sacramento Valley Diasporas Project," is affiliated with the Center for Regional Change and the Gifford Center.
- Writing a book, Human Traffic: The Orderly Business of Disorderly Migration (under contract with Polity Press).
- Editing the second edition of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives.
Teaching
- SOC 46a, Research Methods
- SOC 138, Economic Sociology
- SOC/ IRE 104 International Migrations
- SOC 145/ 245 Sociology of Comparative Development
- Special Topics/ New Diasporas
Other Campus Affiliations
- Geography Graduate Group
- Human and Community Development
- The Center for Regional Change, Executive Committee