Jose Itzigsohn
Associate Professor:
Sociology
Phone: +1 401 863 2528
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2367
Jose_Itzigsohn@Brown.EDU
My work focuses on two areas. The first one is identity and group formation, with a focus on processes of racialization, and ethnic and nation formation.
My second area of interest is the political economy of inequality. I have conducted research on labor markets and the informal economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
Biography
José Itzigsohn graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1995. He is the author of "Developing Poverty" (Penn State, 2000). This book compares the formation of the informal economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic and analyzes how different state policies affect the structure of the labor market and policies. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on racial identity formation and the emergence of panethnicity among first and second generation immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, and on the transnational aspects of immigrant lives.
Interests
Areas of interest: race and ethnic relations, Latino immigration, development.
My work focuses on two areas. The first is identity and group formation, with a focus on processes of racialization, and ethnic and nation formation. I am currently conducting research on the racial and ethnic identity formation among first and second generation Dominican immigrants, on the formation of Latino/a communities and identities, and on the formation of immigrant transnational communities. I am also conducting comparative research on the forms of nationalism in Latin America.
My second area of interest is the political economy of inequality. I have conducted research on labor markets and the informal economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Currently I am working on the employment strategies and trajectories of Latin American immigrants in the United States. I am also studying the recuperated factories in Argentina (factories that have been taken over by workers who run them as worker-owned cooperatives), assessing the conditions that sustain collective action and the organizational forms of the worker-owned factories.
I work within the world-system theoretical paradigm, but I am interested in the local variations within the world economic and political systems. I investigate how local and regional institutional forms and identity formation processes develop and interact with world-systemic trends. I am the author of Developing Poverty (Penn State Press, 2000) and numerous articles published in journals such as Social Forces, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies Review, and Radical Philosophy Review.
Awards
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Affiliations
American Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
Teaching
Sociology 127, Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World (19)
Sociology 244, Fields and Methods of Social Research (7)
Sociology 243, Fields and Methods of Social Research (9)
Sociology 244, Fields and Methods of Social Research (8)
Ethnic Studies 187, Urban Latino Communities (12)
Funded Research
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