Peter B. Brownell
Education: University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. Sociology (expected December 2008)
Dissertation Title: Sanctions for Whom? The Immigration
Reform and
Control Act's Employer Sanctions'
Provisions and
the Wages of Mexican Immigrants.
Committee: Trond Petersen (chair), Margaret Weir, Irene Bloemraad,
Steven Raphael.
M.A. Demography (December 2002)
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major (May 2000),
High Honors
Area of Concentration: Immigration
Thesis Title: Double Crossing: An Examination of the Effects of
Increased
Enforcement Along the US-Mexico Border.
Interests: International Migration, Stratification/Inequality, Quantitative Methods, Political Sociology, Law & Society, Demography, Work/Labor, Economic Sociology, and Latin America.
Awards: Center for Comparative Immigration
Studies (UC San Diego)
Guest Scholar
September 2007 to June 2008
Center for
US-Mexican Studies (UC San Diego)
Visiting Research Fellowship
September 2006 to June 2007
UC Labor and
Employment Research Fund
Dissertation
Fellowship
July 2005 to June 2006
Center for
Latino Policy Research
Mini-grant
April 2005-March 2006
UC Berkeley
Graduate Division
Dean’s Normative
Time Fellowship
2004-2005 Academic Year
NICHD Traineeship in Demography
National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training
2000-2004
University of California Institute for Labor and Employment
En Route Master’s Fellowship
2001-2002
National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship - Honorable Mention
2001
Publications: "The Declining Enforcement
of Employer Sanctions." September 1, 2005. Migration Information
Source. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=332.
“Border Militarization and the Reproduction of Mexican Migrant Labor.”
2001. Social Justice 28(2).
Unpublished
Manuscripts: “Employer Sanctions and the
Wages of Mexican Immigrants.” Revise and Resubmit at Social Forces.
“Wages and the Decision to Migrate: Differences between Temporary and
Permanent Migration” Under review at International Migration Review.
“Meeting Agricultural Labor Demand
with Foreign Workers: Policy Options and Impacts on US Workers’ Wages.” Policy
brief commissioned by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race,
Ethnicity, and Diversity, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Presentations: “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.”
• Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University, November 15,
2007.
• Pacific Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Session entitled
“Exploitation of
Undocumented Workers,” Oakland, CA, March 29-April 1, 2007.
• UC Labor and Employment Fund Graduate Student Conference, UC Santa
Barbara,
May 12-13, 2006.
• Spotlight on Immigration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Immigrants
and Their
Children, UC Berkeley Institute for Industrial Relations, April 21,
2006.
• Population Association of America, Annual Meeting, Session entitled
“Migrant
Networks: Operations and Effects,” Los Angeles, April 1, 2006.
• UC Berkeley Demography Department Brown Bag, September 28, 2005
• Social Science Research Council/UC Irvine Summer Institute on
International
Migration, June 27-30, 2005.
• Center for Latino Policy Research, Graduate Student Panel, UC
Berkeley, April 15,
2005.
"The Declining Enforcement of Employer Sanctions."
• Presentation at Migration Policy Institute event "The
Unauthorized Population: A
Closer Look at the Hard Issues." September 6, 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.
“U.S. Immigration Policy and the
Wages of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants.”
• Poster
presented at the Population Association of America annual meeting in Atlanta,
GA, May 9-11, 2002.
• University of California Institute for Labor and Employment, Graduate
Student
Research Conference at UC Santa Cruz, January 18-19, 2002.
“Double
Crossing: An Examination of the Effects of Increased Enforcement Along the
US-Mexico Border.”
• Association for Borderland Studies annual meeting in San Diego, CA
April 26-29, 2000.
Academic
Positions: Social Science Computing Lab
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate
Student Assistant
Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2004
Providing support and statistical assistance to users in graduate student and
instructional computer labs.
Department of Sociology
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor
Spring 2003
Teaching Assistant for Introductory Sociology course for intended majors
taught by Professor Raka Ray.
Department of Demography
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor
Fall 2000
Teaching Assistant for cross-listed Demography/Sociology course on
Population Issues taught by Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks.
Department of Demography
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate Student Researcher
Summer 2000
Research with Professor John Wilmoth on the contribution of immigration
to U.S. population growth, 1900-2000.
Other
Employment: East Bay Citizenship Project
International Institute of the East Bay
Summer
Outreach Coordinator
June 1998 to August
1998
Provided outreach assistance to community-based organizations providing
naturalization-related legal services to low-income immigrants.
Health
Care Workers Union Local 250 (SEIU)
Organizer
October 1995 to November 1996
Worked with union members involved in contract campaigns to increase
involvement and build workplace power.
Professional
Memberships: American Sociological Association
Sections: International
Migration
Labor and Labor Movements
Organizations, Occupations and Work
Latin American Studies Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Population Association of America
Service: Reviewer for American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Industrial Relations, International Migration Review, and Journal of Borderland Studies.