Mark Leach's Information
POSITION TITLE: Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Immigration to the United States; Mexican migration and incorporation; immigrant households and families; social demography; quantitative methods.
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
2007-2008 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
2008-Present Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2003 Conference Poster First Prize, Population Association of America Meetings, (with Kenneth Chew) "Documentary Clues About Clandestine Migration: Steamship Passenger Manifests and the Chinese American Diaspora 1882-1942"
2004 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, "Linking the Present to the Past: Mexican Migration to New Destination States"
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Bean, F.D.
,
M.M. Leach
and
B.L. Lowell
(2004).
"Immigrant Job Quality and Mobility in the United States."
Work and Occupations 31(4):499-518.
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Bean, F.D.
and
M.M. Leach
(2005).
"A Critical Disjuncture? The Culmination of Post-World War II Socio-Demographic and Economic Trends in the United States."
Journal of Population Research 22(1):63-78.
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Bean, F.D.
,
J. Lee
,
J. Batalova
and
M.M. Leach
(2005).
"Immigration and Fading Color Lines in America." In
Farley, R.
and
J. Haaga
(Eds.)
, The American People: Census 2000.
New York:
Russell Sage Foundation.
Bean, F.D.
,
S.K. Brown
,
M.M. Leach
and
R.G. Rumbaut
(2006).
"Naturalización de los inmigrantes mexicanos y escolaridad en la segunda generacion." In
Zéñiga Herrera, E.
,
J. Arroyo Alejandre
,
A. Escobar Latapi
and
G. Verduzco Igartúa
(Eds.)
, Migración México - Estados Unidos. Implicaciones y Retos para ambos Paises.
Mexico City:
Consejo Nacional de Població (CONAPO).
Leach, M.M.
and
F.D. Bean
(2008).
"The Structure and Dynamics of Mexican Migration to New Destinations in the United States." In
Massey, D.S.
(Ed.)
, New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration.
New York:
Russell Sage Foundation.
(pp. 51-74)
Leach, M.M.
,
M.E. Berman
and
L. Eubanks
(2008).
"Religious Activities, Religious Orientation, and Aggressive Behavior."
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47(2):311-319.
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Chew, K.S.
,
M.M. Leach
and
J.M. Liu
(2009).
"The Revolving Door to Gold Mountain: How Chinese Immigrants Got Around U.S. Exclusion and Replenished the Chinese American Labor Pool, 1900-1910."
International Migration Review 43(2):410-430.
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Leach, M.M.
(2009).
"America's Older Immigrants: A Profile."
Generations 32(4):34-39.
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Bean, F.D.
,
S.K. Brown
,
M.M. Leach
and
J. Bachmeier
(Forthcoming).
"Parents' Legalization and Citizenship Trajectories and Children's Economic Wellbeing." In
Holton, G.
and
G. Sonnert
(Eds.)
, How Young Immigrants Succeed.
New York:
Palgrave MacMillan.
Brown, S.K.
,
F.D. Bean
,
M.M. Leach
and
R.G. Rumbaut
(Forthcoming).
"Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation." In
Alba, R.D.
and
M.C. Waters
(Eds.)
, New Dimensions of Diversity: The Children of Immigrants in North America and Western Europe.
New York:
New York University Press.
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