Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: Harvard, 2005

Areas of Specialization: race and ethnicity, immigrations, assimilation, inequality, Mexican Americans.

Email Address:  tjimenez-AT-ucsd-DOT-edu
Phone Number: 858-534-0525
Office Location: 485 SSB

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Tomás Jiménez received his B.S. from Santa Clara University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Before coming to UCSD, he was a Congressional Fellow in the office of U.S. Congressman Michael Honda. His research focuses on immigration, race, ethnicity, inequality, and assimilation. He is currently completing a book manuscript, which examines how Mexican immigration influences the assimilation of established, long-standing Mexican Americans. Professor Jiménez is also a fellow at the New America Foundation and a visiting research fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UCSD.

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Spring 2008
SOCB 127: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
SOCG 244: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity


Bio: Tomás Jiménez received his B.S. from Santa Clara University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Before coming to UCSD, he was a Congressional Fellow in the office of U.S. Congressman Michael Honda. His research focuses on immigration, race, ethnicity, inequality, and assimilation. He is currently completing a book manuscript, which examines how Mexican immigration influences the assimilation of established, long-standing Mexican Americans. Professor Jiménez is also a fellow at the New America Foundation http://www.newamerica.net/ and a visiting research fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies http://usmex.ucsd.edu/ at UCSD.

Recent publications:

Jiménez, Tomás R. (forthcoming). "Mexican-Immigrant Replenishment and the Continuing Significance of Ethnicity and Race." American Journal of Sociology.

Jiménez, Tomás R. and David Fitzgerald (forthcoming). "Mexican Assimilation: A Temporal and Spatial Reorientation." Du Bois Review.

Jiménez, Tomás R. (2007). "From Newcomers to Americans: An Integration Policy for a Nation of Immigrants," (policy paper) Immigration Policy In Focus, 5(11). Immigration Policy Center, a division of the American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, DC.

Jiménez, Tomás R. (2007). "Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Mexican Immigration: The Mexican American Perspective." Social Science Quarterly, 88(3): 599-618.

Waters, Mary C. and Tomás R. Jiménez. (2005). "Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges." Annual Review of Sociology, 31: 105-125.

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