Michael
Bernabé Aguilera
Curriculum
Vitae
Publications
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. 2022.
“Colombian International Migration: The Impact of Information Networks on
Migration.” Migraciones Internacionales 13: 1-25. Published online at https://migracionesinternacionales.colef.mx/index.php/migracionesinternacionales/article/view/2462/2094. Also translated into
Spanish, “Migración internacional colombiana: el impacto de las redes de
información en la migración.” Spanish version at 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