Ivan Light

Professor
Department: Sociology
Box 951551
264 HH
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Tel: 310-825-4229
Fax: 310-206-9838
light@soc.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Latin America, Mexico

PhD: UC Berkeley 1969

Research focus: Ethnic entrepreneurs, globalization, transnationalism, and immigration.

Selected publications:

Ivan Light, "Immigrant place entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, 1970-1999." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26 (2002): 215-228.

Ivan Light, Globalization effects on employment in Southern California, 1970-1990." Pp. 151 - 167 in Globalization and the New City, edited by M. Cross and R. Moore. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002

Ivan Light and Steven Gold. Ethnic Economies. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000