Peter B. Brownell

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley

peterb@berkeley.edu


Ph.D., Sociology, U.C. Berkeley, December 2008 (expected)
M.A., Demography, U.C. Berkeley, 2002
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 2000 (High Honors)

Curriculum Vitae [PDF] [HTML]

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
International Migration, Social Stratification & Inequality, Quantitative Methods, Political Sociology, Law & Society, Demography, Labor & Labor Movements, and Latin America.

PUBLICATIONS:
  • Peter Brownell (2005). "The Declining Enforcement of Employer Sanctions." Migration Information Source. September 1.

  • Peter B. Brownell (2001). "Border Militarization and the Reproduction of Mexican Migrant Labor." Social Justice 28(2).

    • SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
  • "Low Pay for Unauthorized Immigrants: 'Superexploitation' or Employers’ Risk of Sanctions?" American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 2, 2008.

  • “From the Texas Proviso to Hoffman Plastics: Employer Power and the Subversion of Workplace Immigration Enforcement.” Center for US-Mexican Studies Research Seminar, UC San Diego, May 30, 2007.

  • “Sanctions for Whom? The Immigration Reform and Control Act's 'Employer Sanctions' Provisions and the Wages of Mexican Immigrants” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 1, 2006.

  • “Sanctions for Whom? The Effects of 'Employer Sanctions' on the Wages of Mexican Immigrants” UC Berkeley Demography Department Brown Bag, September 28, 2005

  • "The Declining Enforcement of Employer Sanctions." Invited presentation at Migration Policy Institute event "The Unauthorized Population: A Closer Look at the Hard Issues." September 6, 2005.

  • “Sanctions for Whom? The Immigration Reform and Control Act's "Employer Sanctions" Provisions and the Wages of Mexican Immigrants” Center for Latino Policy Research Graduate Student Panel. University of California, Berkeley. April 15, 2005.

  • “Sueldos y la Decisión de Emigrar: Diferencias entre Migrantes Temporales y Permanentes.” Encuentro Sobre la Población en el Norte de México at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. July 8-9, 2002.

    • PAPERS:
  • Peter B. Brownell (2005) " Sanctions for Whom? The Immigration Reform and Control Act's Employer Sanctions' Provisions and the Wages of Mexican Immigrants." Paper presented at SSRC/UCI Summer Institute on International Migration. University of California, Irvine. June 27-30.

  • Peter B. Brownell (2002) "U.S. Immigration Policy and the Wages of Undocumented Immigrants." Masters Paper.

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