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Undocumented Asian immigrants in the United States
I wrote a short post about undocumented Asian immigrants in the United States for Asian-Nation. According to Department of Homeland Security estimates for January 2011, five of the top 10 countries of...
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Conference: Challenges and achievements in community language schools
I’m working with the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA to organize a conference on community language schools on April 13. The conference is free and open to the public, and will have...
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Language and the stratification of restaurant labour
Originally posted at Language on the Move. Different languages for different jobs in this Los Angeles restaurant Are there language requirements for working in restaurants in Los Angeles? These two...
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Post on NPR’s Code Switch blog: “A Code-Switching Tour of L.A.’s Chinatown”
This photo is not from Los Angeles and thus did not make the cut. I wrote a short post on multilingual signs in Los Angeles for NPR’s new Code Switch blog. I got to share some of my favorite photos...
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Community language schools: A rich and diverse resource flying under the radar
The UCLA International Institute published a write-up of the conference on community language schools that I organized with Claire Chik and Olga Kagan of the National Heritage Language Research Center...
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Colef at UCLA presentation
On November 23 I presented a work in progress on diaspora engagement at a conference at UCLA. The bilingual (English and Spanish) “Colef at UCLA” conference brought together scholars from UCLA and El...
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Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political...
I’m excited to announce that I contributed two entries to Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History, a new three volume set edited by Xiaojian Zhao and...
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Residency for sale
Photo: ebolavir. The investor visa has been a popular way for Western countries to attract foreign capital. In exchange for a substantial chunk of change, individual investors can obtain permanent...
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Researcher mobility starts with a button on the form
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo, my new departmental home for the next few months. Greetings from Norway! I will be spending the fall semester at the University of Oslo as a...
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Geographic concentration of international students: economic and political...
The top origin cities of international students in Los Angeles from 2008-2012 were Seoul, Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Map generated by Calvin Ho from Ruiz 2014 data using the Great Circle...
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Bridging the gap between academia and the NGO and policy worlds
An immigrant grocery store on Via Padova, Milan. I have recently returned from the International Metropolis Conference in Milan, a week-long gathering to talk about the challenges and opportunities of...
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Tweets from Metropolis 2014, organized for easy reading
Last day of #Metropolis2014.Development through migration. Imelda Nicolas, @Metropolis_PD instructor,chairs session pic.twitter.com/bOIvaA5ixJ — Daniel Cervan (@DanielCervan) November 7, 2014 In the...
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The problem with framing pro-migrant arguments in economic terms
The investigative journalist whose work inspired the new movie Spare Parts published an op-ed in the New York Times last week urging for immigration reform. In “The Cruel Waste of America’s Tech...
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Community language schools: A rich and diverse resource flying under the radar
The UCLA International Institute published a write-up of the conference on community language schools that I organized with Claire Chik and Olga Kagan of the National Heritage Language Research Center...
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Give us your smart, your rich, your innovative masses
New citizens in Prince George, BC take the Canadian oath of citizenship. Photo: Province of British Columbia (Flickr/Creative Commons). I defended my dissertation proposal exactly one week ago. In the...
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