Graduate Student Introduction for Leila Rodriguez
Expression of Interest:
I am interested in the interaction between family processes and the economic integration of immigrants. In particular, I am interested in self-employment and job turnover. Methodologically, I am interested in new applications of spatial tools and ethnographic data, and linking quantitative and qualitative data in cultural anthropology.
Dissertation Title:
Family processes and self-employment among Nigerian immigrants in New York City.
Experience:
Fieldwork
08/04 – 12/04: Reading, PA: Context, Identities, and Outcomes: A Pilot Study of Dominicans in Reading, Pennsylvania (research assistant).
06/03 – 08/03: San Jose, Costa Rica: Social Networks of Former Soviet Immigrant Women in Costa Rica. Fieldwork for Master’s paper.
12/01 – 01/02: San Jose, Costa Rica. Child Domestic Workers in Costa Rica (research assistant). Part of the International Labor Organization’s regional project on child labor in Latin America.
Laboratory Work
01/05 – 04/05: Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University. Qualitative data analysis for the Context, Identities, and Outcomes: A Pilot Study of Dominicans in Reading, Pennsylvania project.
08/2002- 04/2004: Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University. Data analysis for the Transnational Migration and Remittances: a Longitudinal Study of Rural Oaxaca project.
01/02-07/02: Central American Population Center, San Jose Costa Rica. Data analysis for the Nicaragua- Costa Rica- United States Migration Ethnosurvey (associated
with the Latin American Migration Project).
Dissertation Research
01/07 – 12/07: New York, NY: Family processes and self-employment among Nigerian immigrants in New York City
Publications
Rodriguez, Leila; Cohen, Jeffrey “Generations and Motivations: Russian and Other
Former Soviet Immigrants in Costa Rica” In: International Migration 43(4)147-65
(2005)
Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Rodriguez, Leila. “Remittance Outcomes in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico:
Challenges, Options and Opportunities for Migrant Households” Population, Space and
Place (11) 49-63 (2005)
Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, Apr. 2004
Paper: Generations and Motivations: Russian and Other Former Soviet Immigrants in
Costa Rica (main author)
Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, Monterrey, Mexico, Apr. 2003
Poster: Structure and Meaning of Social Networks among Costa Rica’s Russian
Community
Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Apr. 2005
Paper: Diasporic Migrations: A Comparative Analysis of Guatemalans in Costa Rica,
Belize, Mexico, and the United States (main author)
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