Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is currently Project Director at the UCLA Labor Center, and labor studies faculty at the Department of Labor Studies where he teaches classes on work, labor and social justice in the US and immigration issues. He is also the Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. Among his publications include the following academic articles (with T. Higbie) “The Border at Work: Undocumented Workers, the ILGWU in Los Angeles, and the Limits of Labor Citizenship,” (2022); (with S. Camacho) “Lost in Translation en el Fil: Actualizing Cultural Humility for Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in California,” (2020); (with L. Escala Rabadán) “Asociaciones de inmigrantes, reproducción cultural y agencia entre inmigrantes mexicanos indígenas en Estados Unidos,” (2020). He also edited the volume (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (UCSD 2005); and the volume (with E. Telles, and M. Sawyer) Just Neighbors: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States (Russell Sage, 2011). He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
