David Fitzgerald
Postdoctoral Fellow and Field Research
Director
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0548
E-mail: dfitzgerald@ucsd.edu
Tel#: 858-822-5715 (office)
curriculum vitae
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Research Expertise:
International migration, nationalism, transnationalism
Geographical Regions of Specialization:
Mexico, USA
Current Research Projects:
Fitzgerald's forthcoming book, A Nation of Emigrants? How Mexico Manages its Migration (University of California Press), flips the conventional question of how countries of destination like the United States manage immigration to ask how countries of origin like Mexico manage emigration. Specifically, he compares how different parts of the Mexican government and Mexican Catholic Church have attempted to control emigration and deal with its effects over the last century in areas like taxation, labor supply, conscription, policing, and education. The book deals with broad social scientific questions about the politics of migration and consolidation of nation-states while showing ethnographically how people from priests to bureaucrats address these questions on the ground in migrant source communities.
Media Interview Topics:
Fitzgerald can provide commentary on Mexican migration to the United States and diaspora politics.
Selected Publications:
A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (forthcoming).
“Mexican Assimilation: A Temporal and Spatial Reorientation” (Tomás Jiménez, equal co-author), W.E.B. Du Bois Review (forthcoming).
“Colonies of the Little Motherland: Membership, Space, and Time in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 50(1). 2008.
“Inside the Sending State: The Politics of Mexican Emigration Control,” International Migration Review 40(2): 259-93. 2006.
“Towards a Theoretical Ethnography of Migration,” Qualitative Sociology 29(1): 1-24. 2006.
“Rethinking Emigrant Citizenship”, New York University Law Review 81(1): 90-116. 2006.
“Nationality and Migration in Modern Mexico,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(1):171-91. 2005.
“Transnationalism in Question” (Roger Waldinger, first author), American Journal of Sociology 109(5):1177-95. 2004.
“Beyond ‘Transnationalism’: Mexican Hometown Politics at an American Labor Union,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(2): 228-47. 2004.
Negotiating Extra-Territorial Citizenship: Mexican Migration and the Transnational Politics of Community. Monograph series no. 2. La Jolla: CCIS, UC San Diego. 2000.
Academic Background:
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California , Los Angeles , 2005
M.A. in Sociology, University of California , Los Angeles , 2001
M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of California , San Diego , 2000
Bachelor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin , 1995
