Belinda Reyes

Adjunct Fellow
(415) 338-6160
reyesb@sfsu.edu
curriculum vitae

Expertise
• Immigration and immigrants
   Immigration policy
   Social and economic progress of immigrants
      and their descendants
   Community integration
   Migration patterns
   Naturalization
• Racial and ethnic populations
   Social and economic progress

Experience
Assistant Professor, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University (2006-present). Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, University of California, Merced (2004-2006). Research Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California (1995–2004). Senior Associate, PolicyLink (2000–2001). Lecturer, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1997). Dissertation Fellow, Research and Training Program on Poverty, the Underclass and Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1994). Analyst, Quantum Consulting, Inc. (1992). Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1991).

Education
Ph.D. (1994), economics, University of California, Berkeley.

PPIC Publications
Holding the Line? The Effect of Recent Border Build-up on Unauthorized Immigration (co-authored with Hans P. Johnson and Richard Van Swearingen). Public Policy Institute of California, 2002.

“Geographic Distribution,” “Economic Outcomes,” and “Political Behavior” in Belinda I. Reyes, ed., A Portrait of Race and Ethnicity in California: An Assessment of Social and Economic Well-Being. Public Policy Institute of California, 2001, pp. 31–45, 123–148, and 167–181.

Taking the Oath: An Analysis of Naturalization in California and the United States (co-authored with Hans P. Johnson, Laura Mameesh, and Elisa Barbour). Public Policy Institute of California, 1999.

Dynamics of Immigration: Return Migration to Western Mexico Public Policy Institute of California, 1997.