July / September 2007
Authors
Irma Arriagada
Sociologists from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile; she accomplished a master in Sociology of Development in the University of London (LSE); Doctor in American Studies with mention in Economic and Social History, Universidad de Santiago, Chile. Officer of Social Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, since 1993. She usually writes in the annual ECLAC publication Social Panorama of Latin America on topics of the governments' social agenda: gender, social policies, labor market, families, social capital and social integration. She has been published in ECLAC journals and several Latin American journals on social and gender topics. She has been external consultant in family and gender issues and has taught in advanced studies of gender and social policies for universities in Bolivia, Chile, Spain, Peru and Uruguay.
e-mail address: iarriaga@eclac.cl
Neir Antunes Paes
Associate professor in the Department of Statistics in the Universidad Federal de Paraiba, Brazil; and researcher in Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (CNPq-Brasil), and researcher in Post-Doctorate in Studies on Population from Johns Hopkins Public School Baltimore and Doctorate in Medical Demography from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the University of London. His research fields are: mortality, indirect demographic methods and Demography of Health. He has carried out recent works of the quality of vital statistics in northern Brazil. Among his recent publications we find: "Qualidade das estatísticas de óbitos por causas desconhecidas dos Estados
brasileiros" in Public Health Journal, 2007; "Avaliação da cobertura dos registros de óbitos dos estados brasileiros em 2000" in Public Health Journal, 2005; "Doenças infecciosas e parasitárias no Brasil: uma década de transição", in Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, OPS, 2004; Mortality by accident in old age in Brazil (Mortalidad por accidente en la vejez en Brasil), in Papeles de Población Num. 37, 2003 .
E-mail address: antunes@de.ufpb.br Margarita Barajas Tinoco
Bachelor in Sociology from the School of Social Sciences and Politics of UABC. Master in Regional Development from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Doctorate in Applied Social Sciences from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. She is incorporated to SNI, level I. She currently holds the position of researcher in the Institute of Social Researches (IIS) of UABC. Her research lines have been developed in migration, regional development, education and labor and service activities in Baja California, as well as in electoral participation and absenteeism. She has published: "Part-time employment and labor, reaches in its training and measurement" (Empleo y trabajo a tiempo parcial, alcances en su captación y medición) , in Carta Económica Regional Num. 65, March - April, 2003; "The State's modernization and Public Administration in their dimension of employment policy, a panoramic approach of Baja California" (La modernización del Estado y la Administración Pública en su dimensión de la política de empleo, una aproximación a la panorámica de Baja California), in Estudios Fronterizos, New Time, Vol. 4, Num.8, July - December, 1991, "Some approaches to study migration" (Algunos enfoques para el estudio de la migración), in Travesía, Number 28, October - December, 1991. She is a member of the Mexican Association of Population Studies (Asociación Mexicana de Estudios de Población, AMEP), of the Association for Borderlands Studies and Association of Labor Studies (Asociación de Estudios del Trabajo, AMET).
July / September 2007 Mardone Cavalcante França
Adjunct professor of the Department of Statistics of the Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Norte, Brazil. Researcher of the Base de Pesquisa Grupo de Estudos Demográficos. Master in Bio-Statistics from the Universidad de São Paulo-USP-Brasil. Currently candidate to doctor in Sciences of Health from Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Norte. Research fields: Bio-Statistics, Demography of Health, Social and Economic Statistics. The most recent works approach demographic and social subjects of Brazil, such as: The city as the stage of demographic diversity: the case of the of city Natal, presented in XXIV General Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Salvador Brazil, 2001; "Socioeconomic conditions as determining factors in the prevalence of systemic and ocular toxoplasmosis in Northeastern Brazil"; (co-author) in the Journal Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2004; Estudo da concentração da posse da terra na região Nordeste e no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte Brasil, Editora da UFRN/EDUFRN, 2006.
Correo electrónico: mardonefranca@globo.com Dora Celton
Bachelor, Master and Doctor in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Studies of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Specialized in Historical Demography in École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Researcher Category 1 of the Consejo Interamericano Nacional. Main researcher of the National Council of Technical and Scientific Researches. Director of Center of Advanced Studies UCN. Director of the Doctorate in Demography of the Faculty of Economic Sciences (UNC). President of AEPA and ALAP. Part of the Director Council of CLACSO. Among her works one finds: The road of the stays. Inscription in the history of the patrimony of Humanity (El camino de las estancias. Inscripción en la historia del patrimonio de la Humanidad) (2000), The Bolivian community in Cordoba: characterization and migratory process (La comunidad boliviana en Córdoba: caracterización y proceso migratorio) (1998), Estimation and projection of the population of Cordoba 2005 (Estimación y proyección de la población de la Provincia de Córdoba 1991-2005) (1999), Migratory Characteristics of the population in the IV General Census of the Nation, 1947 (Características migratorias de la población en el IV
Censo General de la Nación, 1947) (1998), Mortality in Argentina between 1980 and 1991 (La mortalidad en la Argentina entre 1980 y 1991) (1997), Population Censuses in the City of Cordoba 1779-1779 (Censos de población de la Ciudad de Córdoba 1778-79) (1996). As editor (in collaboration) we can mention -among other- the work Demographic changes in Latin America: the five-century experience (Cambios demográficos en América Latina: la experiencia de cinco siglos) (2000). Recently (2005) published: "Dispenses as sources of studies on consanguinity and marriage patterns" (Las dispensas como fuentes de estudio de la consaguinidad y de las pautas matrimoniales) in the book Family issues through the sources (Cuestiones de familia a través de las Fuentes), edited by the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
e-mail address: dcelton@arnet.com.ar Silvia Leticia Figueroa Ramírez
Bachelor in Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC). Master in Sociology from the Universidad de Guadalajara and Doctorate in Applied Social Sciences from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. 26 years in UABC as researcher-professor (Institute of Social Researches). In the area of organization and labor she has tracked the topics of syndicalism, political vanguard, laborers' process of consciousness, adaptation and prospective in reproduction of labor force, laborers' health in high-risk assembly factories, teratogenous risks in biological reproduction of laborers, weakening of power relations in the familial environment of females laborers and capitalist behavior in shore-fishing companies. She has published articles of divulgation in the journals Estudios Fronterizos (IIS-UABC) and Cuadernos de Ciencias Sociales (IIS-UABC).
July / September 2007 David F. Fuentes Romero
Bachelor in Sociology from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Politics in the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Master in Architecture and Urban Planning in the specialty of social politics and urban analysis from UCLA and Doctorate in Applied Social Sciences, in the Area of Policies of Regional Development from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef). He has coordinated eleven different research programs within the field of Regional and Urban Development, being distinguishable those related to migration analysis and workforce in the Mexican northern border, as well as those linked to administration, operation and evaluation of public services. He currently develops a research line of inter-disciplinary nature in public security in the academic body called Social Environment and Public Insecurity. He has hold several positions in public administration. In the private sector he worked as general manager of the Group of Research in Specialized Consultancy (Grupo de Investigación en Consultoría Especializada, GICE). He is a professor with 24 years of experience, has taught diverse courses in the faculties of Architecture, Human Studies and Social Sciences and Politics, both in undergraduate and post-graduate courses. CONACYT granted him the distinction National Researcher Level I.
E-mail address: dfuentes@uabc.mx Brígida García
She is a researcher professor in the Center of Demographic Studies and Urban Development of El Colegio de México since 1971. She holds a master in Demography from El Colegio de Mexico and a doctorate in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is a specialist in labor markets, family and gender, subjects on which she has published diverse books and a broad variety of articles and chapters in specialized books. Her last book is Women and the labour market in changing economies: demographic issues (coeditor with Richard Anker and Antonella Pinnelli) and it has been published by Oxford University Press in May 2003. She was president of the Mexican Society of Demography (Somede) during the 1994-1996 period.
Daniel Hiernaux-Nicolas
Doctor in Geography from the University of Paris. Researcher-professor of the Department of Sociology in Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Iztapalapa; coordinator of the bachelor studies in Human Geography in the same university. Member of the National System of Researchers, level 3: professor in Sociology and Human Geography Majors as well as Social Studies (Labor) advanced studies in the mentioned university, in the lines of imaginaries and places, and theoretical and methodological problems on space and imaginary. Member and coordinator of the Consolidated Academic Body in Spatial Analysis, of UAM - Iztapalapa. His research subjects are: urban and metropolitan studies, urban imaginaries, geography of tourism, geographic thought and urban utopias.
E-mail address: danielhiernaux@yahoo.com.mx Alicia Lindón
Doctor in Sociology from the Center of Sociological Studies of El Colegio de México. Researcher-professor in the Department of Sociology of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Iztapalapa. Member of the National System or Researchers, level 2. Professor of bachelor studies on Sociology, Social Psychology and Human Geography, and of advanced studies of Social Studies of UAM, Iztapalapa. Founder of the Area of Research Space and Society of the Department of Sociology of UAM-I in the research lines: imaginaries and places, theoretical and methodological problems on space and imaginary. Member of the Consolidated Academic Body in Spatial Analysis of UAM-Iztapalapa. Research topics: territorialities and socio-symbolic construction of places, quotidian life, topo-philias and topo-phobias, and qualitative methodologies.
E-mail address: alindon@attglobal.net Elizabeth Maier
Sociologist; specialty in Women's Area and Gender Studies: sexual health and reproductive health; indigenous women; women and migration; women and environment; construction of gender identity; women's socio-political participation; women and human rights. Doctor in Latin American Studies from the National
July / September 2007 Autonomous University of Mexico. She is currently a researcher and a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies in El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in Tijuana, Baja California. Member of the National System of Researchers. Among her academic production one finds: From the private to the public: 30 years of women's civic fight in Latin America (De lo privado a lo público: 30 años de lucha ciudadana de las mujeres en América Latina) Elizabeth Maier and Natalie Lebon comps, Mexico, 2006; Nicaragua: woman in the revolution (Nicaragua: la mujer en la revolución) Ediciones de Cultura Popular, Mexico, 1980; The Sandinistas, Ediciones de Cultura Popular, Mexico, 1986; How come we women have human rights? (¿A poco las mujeres tenemos derechos?) Servicio Universitario Mundial, Mexico, 1990; Feminine gender, rural poverty and ecological culture (Género femenino, pobreza rural y cultura ecológica), ECOSUR-ediciones potrerillos, Mexico, 1998; The mothers of the disappeared: a new myth in Latin America (Las madres de los desaparecidos: ¿Un nuevo mito en América Latina?) El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ediciones La Jornada, Mexico, 2001.
E-mail address: spirit44@cox.net Viviana Masciadri
Bachelor and professor in Psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Studies of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Magister in Demography from UNC. Magister in Human Geography option Demography from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Candidate to doctor in Demography from the Escuela de Graduados, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. She currently works as a researcher assistant of the National Council of Technical and Scientific Researches under the direction of Dora Celton. Among her publications one finds: Recent tendencies in the constitution and dissolution of unions in Argentina (Tendencias recientes en la constitución y disolución de las uniones en Argentina), 2002; Demand and offer of personnel of Health of the province of Cordoba (Demanda y oferta del personal de salud de la provincia de Córdoba), 2000; The use of critical lacks' censual maps in health studies: sanitary zones of the province of Cordoba (El uso de los mapas censales de carencias críticas en estudios de salud: zonas sanitarias de la provincia de Córdoba), 1999. In 2005 she published Demographic behavior and behavior genetics (comportement démographique et génetique du comportement, by Atam Vetta and Daniel Courgeau, and Getting married in Cordoba in 1996.
Victoria Mazzeo
Bachelor in sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Magister in Social Demography from the Universidad Nacional de Luján, Doctor in Social Sciences from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina Seat. Responsible for the Unit of Demographic Analysis of the General Direction of Statistics and Censuses of the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Unidad de Análisis Demográfico de la Dirección General de Estadística y Censos del Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires). Researcher from the Institute Gino Germani of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Lecturer in the Master in Social Demography in the Universidad Nacional de Luján. Author of the book: Infantile mortality in the city of Buenos Aires (1856-1986) (La mortalidad infantil en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (1856-1986)) and different research works in specialized books. E-mail address: vmazzeo@buenosaires.gov.ar
Cristóbal Mendoza Pérez
Bachelor and Master in Geography in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. Cooursed his Doctorate Studies in Geography in King's College London, England. Specialization in Demography in the Center of Demographic Studies and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He currently is researcher-professor in Sociology in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Iztapalapa. He is a member of the Mexican Society of Demography and the National System of Researchers level I. Among his most recent publications, coauthored with J. Loucky, 2007, "Recent trends in Mexico-US border demographics" in James Loucky and Don Alper; Transnational policy challenges in Western North America, University of Calgary Press/El Colegio de la Frontera Norte/Michigan State University Press; in print, 2007; "Expatriated women in Mexico: labor, household and quotidian life" in Migraciones Internacionales, 13 (4).
