Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The paper compares the socio-economic attainment of contemporary Chinese immigrants from Australia and the United States. These two nations, along with Canada, house the largest number of foreign born Chinese. The paper uses data from the 1996 Australian census (1 percent CURFs) and from the 2000 US census (5 percent and 1 percent PUMs) to examine four economic outcomes: labor force participation, unemployment, occupational status and income. Results suggest considerable intra-national differentials, differentials that are similar in both the US and Australia. Persons from the PRC incur large economic penalties that are rarely explained by their characteristics. Those from Vietnam incur large gross penalties but more often than not these are due to their characteristics. On the other hand, persons from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia reap both gross and net advantages. Finally, looking across the dependent variables, irrespective of birthplace, most Chinese immigrants do relatively better in the US than in Australia.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper will present the preliminary results of a phenomenological study that examines the unique academic, career counseling, and mentoring needs of immigrant students seeking graduate education. Particular attention will be given to their cultural, educational and occupational challenges. Implications for practice and futureresearch will be explored.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: Most literature views refugees of conflict as passive objects: either as needy recipients of aid or as unfortunate casualties of power politics. However refugees also take action, including actions which can affect state security. For example, they can facilitate ethnic militants or rebels; militarize; conduct raids on their country of origin, drawing their enemy into the host country; or pressure their host country and the international community to take action in their conflict. Classic cases include Macedonia, Angola, Lebanon and Uganda. Therefore, assuming that refugees are dynamic social actors who take action to maximize their own utility, the hypothesis is: the presence of a large number of refugees increases the probability of host country involvement in war. Results of probit analysis strongly support the hypothesis while controlling for GDP, host country population and land area. This investigation demonstrates the urgent need for further investigation into the causal factors of host country involvement in war, with great potential policy relevance for host countries as well as IGOs like UNHCR and IOM.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Addressing domestic political challenges to overseas U.S. military bases, I examine how host governments respond to social movement pressure from below while managing alliance relations with the U.S. Additionally, in cases where social movements seemed to matter, I explore how they made a difference in outcomes. When host government elites are significantly divided regarding their perception of national security and U.S.-host state security relations, elites sympathetic to anti-base movements cooperatively engage anti-base activists. Thus a weak security consensus opens the possibility for major base policy changes by anti-base movements. Conversely, when a strong consensus regarding security relations with the U.S. exists among domestic political elites, the host government responds to anti-base pressure by either ignoring, foot-dragging, co-opting, or at best, making token concessions to anti-base groups. By providing minimal concessions, host governments are able to maintain positive relations with the U.S. while mollifying major anti-base protests. Social movements, therefore, have little effect on base policy outcomes under conditions of strong security consensus. I use two recent anti-base movement episodes, the No Bases movement in Manta, Ecuador, and the No Dal Molin movement in Vicenza, Italy, to test my theoretical argument.