Social Sciences Projects

Latinos and Economic Security is a national research project, funded by the Ford Foundation, with a goal to advance economic security for aging Latinos.

This project studies community advocacy groups in the Los Angeles area as an alternative mode of Latino political incorporation and representation.

Latino political empowerment has often been measured in terms of the increasing number of Latino elected officials, or the elimination of discriminatory election structures.

The Mexican American Study Project is a study on intra- and inter-generational change and persistence in ethnic identity and behavior.

Lopez's work continues along two lines of research that he has engaged in for the past several years.

Cross disciplinary, policy-relevant research projects on Chicana/o and Latina/o issues in California.

This project resulted in a three-day international conference, "The Maquiladora Murders, Or, Who Is Killing the Women of Juárez?", held in Fall 2003.

This project utilized 1990 Census Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data on large, immigrant-receiving metropolitan areas to illuminate the earnings attainment process in brown-collar occupations.