Michael Bernabé Aguilera

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Sociology

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97403-1291

mba@uoregon.edu

Office: 541-346-5059

Fax: 541-346-5026

Education

1999 Ph.D. Sociology, Stony Brook University

1995 M.A. Sociology, Stony Brook University

1994 B.S. Sociology, University of California at Irvine

Employment

2008-Present Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Oregon

2004-08 Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Oregon

2006 Visiting Professor, Universidad Latina de América. Morelia, México

2002-04 Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Rice University

1999-02 Turner Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Stony Brook University

Research and Teaching Interests

International Migration; Race and Ethnicity; Economic Sociology; Social Inequality; Public Health, and Social Networks

Refereed Publications

Aguilera, Michael B. 2024. “The Impact of Migration on Smoking among Colombian Migrants.” Societies. 14(10):197. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/14/10/197.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2023. "Colombian Migration and the Body Mass Index: The Relationship between Migration and Weight Gain among Colombian Migrants." Food and Nutrition Sciences 14(11): 1078-1093. https://www.scirp.org/pdf/fns_2023112710444743.pdf.

Aguilera, Michael B. and Contreras-Medrano, Diego. 2023. “Colombian International Migration: The Impact of Information Networks on Migration.” Migraciones Internacionales 13: 1-25. English version: https://migracionesinternacionales.colef.mx/index.php/migracionesinternacionales/article/view/2462/2094.

Aguilera, Michael B. and Contreras-Medrano, Diego. 2022 “Migración internacional colombiana: el impacto de las redes de información en la migración.” Spanish version: https://migracionesinternacionales.colef.mx/index.php/migracionesinternacionales/article/view/2462/2089.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2021. “The Global Horse Trade in the United States: 1981-2013.” Society and Animals. 29(1):63-85.

Beck, Erin; Aguilera, Michael; Schnitz, James. 2018. "Who Benefits? The Interactional Determinants of Microfinance's Varied Effects." Journal of Development Studies 54(2): 235-55.

Rachel S. Shinnar, Michael B. Aguilera, and Thomas Lyons. 2011. “Co-Ethnic Markets: Financial Penalty or Opportunity?” International Business Review 20: 646-658.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2009. “Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Self-Employed Latinos.” Small Business Economics 33(4):413-426.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2008. “Personal Networks and the Incomes of Men and Women in the United States: Do Personal Networks Provide Higher Returns for Men or Women?” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26(13):221-33.

Pre-Tenure

Aguilera, Michael B. 2005. “The Impact of Social Capital on the Wages of Puerto Rican Migrants,” The Sociological Quarterly 46(4): 569-92. (Lead article)

Donato, Katharine, Michael B. Aguilera, and Chizuko Wakabayashi. 2005. “Immigration Policy and Employment Conditions of US Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic,” International Migration 43(5): 5-29. (Lead article)

Aguilera, Michael B. 2004. “The Effect of Legalization on the Labor Markets of Latin American Immigrants: A Gendered Comparison,” Sociological Focus 37(4): 349-69.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2004. “Deciding Where to Retire: Retirement Location Choices of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants,” Social Science Quarterly 85(2): 340-60.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2003. “The Impact of the Worker: How Social Capital and Human Capital Influence the Job Tenure of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Immigrants,” Sociological Inquiry 73(1): 52-83.

Aguilera, Michael B. and Douglas S. Massey. 2003. “Social Capital and Wages of Mexican Migrants: New Hypotheses and Tests,” Social Forces 82(2): 671-701.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2002. “The Impact of Social Capital on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey,” Social Science Quarterly 83(3): 853-74.

Catanzarite, Lisa and Michael B. Aguilera. 2002. “Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for Latino Immigrants at Latino Jobsites,” Social Problems 49(1): 101-27.

Aguilera, Michael B. 1996. “The Effects of Disadvantage in the Residential Choices of Elderly Hispanic Women in the United States,” Family Perspective 30(1): 85-101.

Other Publications

Aguilera, Michael B. 2015. A book review of Kathleen C. Schwartzman’s “The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas” in Contemporary Sociology 44(3) 414-15.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2013. “Ethnic Enclaves and the Incomes of Latino Immigrant Workers.” Pp. 33-58 in Hispanics in the US Labor Market: Selected Research, edited by Richard R. Verdugo. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2008. “Ethnic Enclave Theories.” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by Richard T. Schaefer. NY: Sage Publications.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2007. “The Impact of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and IRCA on Migration Patterns,” City & Community 6(3): 239-42.

Aguilera, Michael B. 2001. “Labor Markets for Recent Immigrants: A Statistical Portrait.” Pp. 629-640 in The Encyclopedia of American Immigration, edited by J. Ciment. New York: M.E. Sharpe Publisher.

Awards, Fellowships, and External Grants

2010 Summer Research Award ($4,500), University of Oregon

2007 Junior Professorship Development Award ($750), University of Oregon

2006-07 Kauffman Foundation Grant ($25,000)

2006 Junior Professorship Development Award ($750), University of Oregon

2005 Junior Professorship Development Award ($1,000), University of Oregon

2005 New Faculty Award ($5,000), University of Oregon

2002-04 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sociology, Rice University

1999-02 Turner Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stony Brook University