ALARCON ACOSTA, RAFAEL GUADALUPE

Rafael G. Alarcón Acosta is Research Professor in the Department of Social Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico and holds a Ph. D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2022, he was distinguished as National Emeritus Researcher by Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII) and was the founding editor of the journal Migraciones Internacionales in 2001. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and San Diego, the Universidad de Valencia, the Université París Diderot, París 7, Columbia University and City University of New York.

As a specialist on international migration, throughout more than 35 years, he has conducted and published research on the economic and social effects of migration in Mexico and the United States, the integration of immigrants, the immigration policies regarding skilled persons and on the criminalization and deportation of Mexican migrants from the United States.

In collaboration with Luis Escala and Olga Odgers, he coauthored the book: Making Los Angeles Home. The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States (University of California Press, 2016), that is a translation and a revised version of: Mudando el hogar al Norte. Trayectorias de integración de los inmigrantes mexicanos en Los Ángeles. (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2012).

He is also the co-editor of the book: El ir y venir de los Norteños. La historia de la migración mexicana a Estados Unidos (S. XIX- XXI) (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, El Colegio de San Luis and El Colegio de Michoacán, 2016) with Fernando Alanís Enciso. In 1987 he coauthored the book: Return to Aztlan. The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico (University of California Press, 1987) with Douglas Massey, Jorge Durand and Humberto González.