Experts Directory: Immigration

Douglas Carranza (Mena)

Department of Central American Studies
work: (818) 677-6487
email: douglas.carranza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Central America
Central American politics
Central American economies
Central American social movements
Migration
Indigenous issues in Central America
Regional politics in Central America

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Shu-Sha Angie Guan

Department of Child and Adolescent Development
work: (818) 677-7249
email: angie.guan@csun.edu

The ways social contexts (e.g. relationships, culture and technology/digital media) affect mental and physical well-being, particularly among ethnic minority and immigrant adolescents and young adults
Cultural psychology
Immigrant experiences
Language brokering (immigrant translation/interpretation)
Social support
Digital/social media

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Discrimination During Teen Years Can Have Health Repercussions Later in Life

Jinah Kim

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email: jinah.kim@csun.edu

Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
Issues impacting undocumented Asian populations
Author: “Postcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas”

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CSUN Fellowship to Support Scholarship on Comfort Women

Marta Cristina López-Garza

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6488 / 4785
email: marta.lopez-garza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Economic development
Ethnographic field research
Formerly incarcerated women
Immigration and public policy
Race and class studies
Urban sociology
Women’s/feminist studies
Documentary filmmaking from a social science perspective
Visual sociology (photography)
Member, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, South Los Angeles
Member, Institute for the Renewal of the California Draw
Co-author: “Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together”
Co-editor: “Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles”
Documentary: “ ‘When Will the Punishment End?’ Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives”

David L. Moguel

Department of Secondary Education
work: (818) 677-4010
email: david.l.moguel@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Teacher education
Bilingual education and education of immigrant students
Latino/Hispanic population history, culture and education
Service learning