Miguel Ceballos

Miguel Ceballos
  • Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Department: Anthropology and Sociology
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: MCeballos@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
  • M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
  • B.A., Chicano Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1981
  • M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1990

Research Interests

Immigrant healthhealth disparitiesattitudes towards immigrantsU.S.-Latin American migration

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2308

List of Publications

  • Ceballos, Miguel, Oksana Yakushko, and Courtney Lyons. 2014. “Rural and Urban Attitudes toward Immigrants in the U.S. Midwest and Great Plains” Journal of Social Sciences. 10(4): 150 – 161. Ceballos, Miguel, and Oksana Yakushko. 2014. “Attitudes toward Immigrants in Nebraska.”Great Plains Research. 24(2), 181 – 195. Ceballos, Miguel. 2011. “Simulating the Effects of Acculturation and Return Migration on the Maternal and Infant Health of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: A Research Note” Demography. 48(2), 425 – 436 [DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0017-4]. Ceballos, Miguel, and Alberto Palloni. 2010. “Maternal and Infant Health of Mexican Immigrants in the USA: The Effect of Acculturation, Duration, and Selective Return Migration” Ethnicity & Health. 15 (4), 377 – 396. [DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2010.481329] González, Hector M., Miguel Ceballos, Wassim Tarraf, Brady T. West, Mary E. Bowen, and William A. Vega. 2009. “The Health of Older Mexican Americans in the Long Run” American Journal of Public Health 99 (10), 1879 – 1885. [DOI: 10.2105] Palloni, Alberto, Douglas S. Massey, Miguel Ceballos, Kristin Espinosa, Mike Spittel. 2001. "Social Capital and International Migration: A Test Using Information on Family Networks" American Journal of Sociology 106 (5): 1262-98. Sandefur, Gary, Miguel Ceballos, and Susan Mannon. 2000 “Land and Population on the Indian Reservations of Wisconsin: Past, Present, and Future.” Land Tenure Center Working Paper, WP 42, North American Series, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Dissertation: “Maternal and Infant Health of the Mexican-Origin Population in the United States: A Study of Acculturation and the Epidemiological Paradox” 2003. M.A. Thesis: “A Struggle for Control over the Laboring Process: Wages and Working Conditions in the Honduran Banana Industry” 1990.

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