Selected Publications
Sembrar en el desierto. Crónicas de los primeros 30 años de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef, 2012)
“A Dialectical Understanding of the Vulnerability of International Migrants,” in Castro-Rea, Julián, ed., Our North America: Social and Political Issues beyond NAFTA (Ashgate, 2012)
“La Migración de Mexicanos a Estados Unidos y Sus Repercusiones en Baja California,” in David Piñero and Jorge Carrillo, eds., Baja California a Cien Años de la Revolución Mexicana 1910–2010 (El Colegio De La Frontera Norte/Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2011)
“Extreme Vulnerability of Migrants: The Cases of the United States and Mexico Respectively,” in International Migrations Journal 6, 1 (2011)
Coauthor, “La migración de México-Estados Unidos”, in Los grandes problemas de México, Blanca Torres and Gustavo Vegas, coords. (El Colegio de México, 2008)
Founder of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues.
- Founder and former president of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Tijuana, Mexico), a prominent research and degree granting institute for the study of border issues (1982-98)
- Appointed advisor to the president of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (2011)