Luis Eduardo Guarnizo

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Community and Regional Development

2329 Hart Hall

Professor Guarnizo is also chair of the Community and Regional Development department at UC Davis. He has done extensive research on economic sociology, transnational migration, immigrant entrepreneurs, comparative international development, and citizenship.

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The Fluid, Multi-Scalar, and Contradictory Construction of Citizenship

October 24, 2018

Author: Luis Eduardo Guarnizo. Comparative Urban and Community Research, July 2017.

MRC Faculty Symposium

August 21, 2018

In the MRC Faculty Symposium, the associates of the research cluster will present their research in a compact and thought-provoking way. They will touch economic, social, legal, and political themes linked to migration as well as historical and human-cultural ways of looking at this phenomenon.

Migrants’ Transnational Political Engagement in Spain and Italy

August 20, 2018

Authors: Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Ali R Chaudhary, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen. Oxford Academia, October 31st, 2017.

Luis E. Guarnizo to speak at the Globalization, Inequality and Highly-Skilled Migration Symposium in Mexico City

October 19, 2017

Luis E. Guarnizo will speak on a panel titled "Global Perspectives on Human Mobility and Inequality: Trends and Debates" on October 20, 2017 as part of the Globalization, Inequality and Highly-Skilled Migration Symposium at the Institute for Legal Research at the Mexican National Autonomous University.

The Migration-Development Nexus and the Changing Role of Transnational Immigrant Organizations

October 07, 2017

Author: Luis Eduardo Guarnizo. Ethnic and Racial Studies, January 4th, 2017.

Commentary on the Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field

October 07, 2017

Authors: Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo & Patricia Landolt. Ethnic and Racial Studies, June 5th, 2017.

Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post-Industrial Economies

October 07, 2017

Authors: M. Anne Visser and Luis E. Guarnizo. Population, Space and Place, 2017.

Paid Domestic Work, globalization, and informality.

October 03, 2017

Authors: Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Guadalupe Rodriguez. Population, Space and Place, 2017.

Sydney Migration Workshop hosted by UC Davis & the University of Sydney

August 15, 2017

This UC Davis – University of Sydney faculty migration workshop focuses on social justice and migration.

Pakistani immigrant organisational spaces in Toronto and New York City

July 19, 2017

Authors: Luis E. Guarnizo, and Ali R. Chaudhary. Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2016.

Determinants of Transnational Political Engagement Among Dominican and Colombian Migrants in Southern Europe

July 19, 2017

Authors: Luis E. Guarnizo, and Ali R. Chaudhary. International Migration Institute, 2014.

Migration, Inequality, and Racialization in the United States, 1900-2010

July 06, 2017

Migration has been identified as a peaceful form of redistribution and regulation of global inequality. They test this hypothesis by analyzing the migration-inequality relationship using U.S. Decennial Census data since 1900.

The Global Market of Unskilled Labor: A Research Conference

June 23, 2017

This conference aims to stimulate research and discussion on the formation, dynamics, and consequences of the participation of migrants in the emerging global informal economy; as well as the economic, political, and social implications that such participation presents for migrant receiving and sending societies.

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The Fluid, Multi-Scalar, and Contradictory Construction of Citizenship

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Luis Eduardo Guarnizo

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Comparative Urban and Community Research

Citizenship has existed for nearly three millennia. Throughout its long history, it has been the main institution regulating membership in political communities and has provided the philosophical rationale and quotidian structure for the sociopolitical organization of societies and legitimate systems of governance. In the twentieth century, the age of the nation-state, citizenship became the institutional building block of national membership and international relations. By the early twenty-first century, however, the everyday practices, as well as theoretical and legal meanings of citizenship had experienced considerable transformations. Most scholarly research has concluded that these changes have in great part been fueled by an anintricate and intertwined host of global processes ranging from the hyper-mobility of capital and people to the introduction and use of universal rights, to the expansion of transnational grassroots networks. Ensuring academic debates on the implications of citizenship transformation have generated the emergence of multiple new types of citizenship, which are often used to represent contemporary changes. Urban, international, transnational, cosmopolitan, nested, global, and environmental are among the copious types of new citizenships recently coined by social scientists.

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MRC Faculty Symposium

Nov 2, 2018

International Center, Room 3119 | UC Davis

Migrants’ Transnational Political Engagement in Spain and Italy

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Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Ali R Chaudhary, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

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Oxford Academia

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International migrants’ cross-border political activities challenge singular notions of national citizenship and political belonging. Yet most sociological studies of migrants’ transnational political engagement are based on single national groups in the USA, and limit themselves to examining how assimilation and contexts of reception determine migrants’ propensity to engage with homeland politics—thereby under theorizing the influence of origin countries. This study moves beyond this approach by recognizing the multi-directionality of migration, and testing the applicability of existing theoretical approaches across two different origins and receiving contexts. We compare a sample of Colombian and Dominican migrants in Spain and Italy, analyzing how contexts in countries of origin, as well as migrants’ social networks across borders, interact with assimilation and contexts of reception to determine migrants’ political transnational engagement. Findings reveal migrants’ transnational political engagement in Spain and Italy appears to be a highly selective process dominated by a small minority of well-educated males from high social status in origin. Findings also suggest immigrant incorporation and transnational political engagement form a dialectical relationship operating at different scales that is simultaneously complementary and contradictory. Contextual conditions in origin countries explain observed much of variation in Colombian and Dominican migrants’ transnational political engagement.

Co-host editor with Anne Visser of a special issue on Migration and the Informal Economy of Population, Space and Place (2017).

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Luis E. Guarnizo to speak at the Globalization, Inequality and Highly-Skilled Migration Symposium in Mexico City

The Migration-Development Nexus and the Changing Role of Transnational Immigrant Organizations

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Luis Eduardo Guarnizo

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The State and the Grassroots presents the results of studies of immigrant organizations engaged in transnational development initiatives from thirteen different immigrant nationalities in five countries of reception. The scale of this endeavour is unprecedented. The articles represent the fruit of a long-term project known as the Comparative Immigration Organizations Project (CIOP), which was launched by the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University in the early 2000s. The State and the Grassroots makes significant analytical and methodological contributions to the migration studies field, particularly to the study of the migration-development nexus and of the relationship between assimilation/integration and transnationalism. This volume will be useful for upper-division undergraduates, as well as for graduate students and seasoned researchers interested in this field, particularly at this time of heightened anxiety about immigration and national security.

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Commentary on the Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field

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Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo & Patricia Landolt

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques leveled at the original article. Before commenting on this, it may be worth recalling where things were back in the 1990s and what our article attempted to accomplish then. The enthusiasm unleashed by Nations Unbound by social anthropologists Basch, Glick-Schiller, and Blanc- Szanton (1994) was followed by a veritable explosion of both qualitative studies and speculative writings leading to the impression that all immigrants were involved in transnational activities and that transnationalism represented a new 'paradigm' for the understanding of global phenomena."

Room for Manoeuvre: Rethinking the Intersections Between Migration and the Informal Economy in Post-Industrial Economies

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M. Anne Visser and Luis E. Guarnizo

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Population, Space and Place - Wiley Online Library, 2017

Abstract
Dominant scholarly and policy discourse implicitly connect growth in immigration to growth in the informal economy and negative socio-economic outcomes in post-industrial societies. In this introduction, we highlight some of the broader questions and implications raised by the multidisciplinary work of our contributors that challenge this immigration-informality hypothesis.

We argue that existing studies of the informal economy in post-industrial societies underscore the multiscalar economic, social, and political facets and dimensions that shape the intersection between migration and the spread of informal economic practices in the global north. However, this body of work does not adequately connect the ways in which these processes influence immigrants' economic and labour market integration. The contributions to this special issue focus on these dimensions seeking to identify how they are constructed and the opportunities, challenges, and possibilities they present for migrant workers and migrant-receiving societies.

Collectively, the contributions challenge dominant narratives surrounding the relationship between migration and the informal economy and contribute to theorise them as co-constituted at multiscalar relational processes.

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Paid Domestic Work, globalization, and informality.

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Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Guadalupe Rodriguez

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Population, Space and Place - Wiley Online Library, 2017

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This paper examines the local demand for, and the level of informality of, domestic help in the Sacramento metropolitan area of California. It departs from the prevalent analytical approach that looks at domestic work from the supply side (i.e., the workers’ perspective), and instead examines it from the demand side (i.e., the employers’ perspective). Using a quantitative analytical strategy, it looks at the employer– employee relationship as embedded in specific social and economic conditions, including the sociodemographic characteristics of the household and its head, and structured by the different types of the housework workers are hired to perform.

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Sydney Migration Workshop hosted by UC Davis & the University of Sydney

Pakistani immigrant organisational spaces in Toronto and New York City

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Luis E. Guarnizo, and Ali R. Chaudhary

Published in

Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies (2016)

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This study examines how ‘contexts of reception’ in two migrant cities shape the organisational infrastructure for Pakistani immigrant communities in Toronto and New York City (NYC). Previous research is divided into two epistemic camps, one focusing on locally oriented organisations promoting settlement/incorporation and the other on transnational organisations—thus obscuring the relationships between these organisations. The present study transcends this division by examining how the combined effect of state policies, socioeconomic incorporation, community characteristics and societal attitudes shape the composition and geographical orientation of an immigrant group’s collective organisational space—comprised of local and transnationally oriented organisations. Data come from a newly constructed database of Pakistani non-profit organisations based in Toronto and NYC and from qualitative research conducted in both cities. Contrary to our expectations and previous research, we find that state-sponsored multiculturalism in Toronto is not associated with a larger or more transnationally oriented organisational space. Rather, it is the affluence of the Pakistani community in NYC that is associated with the larger and more transnational of the two Pakistani organisational spaces. Findings also reveal tensions between local and transnationally oriented organisations in both cities, reflecting a growing fragmentation between affluent cosmopolitan immigrant elites and the impoverished segments of Toronto and NYC Pakistani communities.

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