Notes on Contributors

Diaspora 9:2 2000 Notes on Contributors Andrea Klimt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth , and on the staff of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the same university. She is the author often articles and book chapters, including "Do National Narratives Matter? Identity Formation among Portuguese in France and Germany," forthcoming in a volume tentatively titled European History as Migration History, and "Enacting National Selves" in Global Studies in Culture and Power (1999). Misha Kokotovic is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of six articles, including the forthcoming "Manuel Vargas Llosa Writes Of(f) the Native: Modernity and Cultural Heterogeneity in Peru" (Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2001); "Theory at the Margins: Latin American Testimonio and Intellectual Authority in the North American Academy" (Socialist Review, 1999); and 'Vargas Llosa in the Andes: The Racial Discourse of Neoliberalism" (Confluencia, 2000), and is at work on a book manuscript, The Andean Contours of Modernity: Narratives of Nation, Modernization, and Ethnic Conflict in Peru (1940-1995). Robert C. Smith is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Barnard College. He is the author of two book manuscripts: "Migration, Settlement and Transnational Life," on Mexican migrants and their US-born children; and "Migration Systems and Public Policy," coauthored with Aristide Zolberg, which is the revised version of a report requested by the US State Department. He is the co-editor (with A. Leal) of a forthcoming collection of articles on Mexican immigration and the author of some twenty articles on these topics, including "The North American Migration System," forthcoming in Comercio Exterior, edited by Rodolfo Garcia Zamora; "Post-Industrial Employment and Third World Immigration" (with Saskia Sassen), in Labor Market Interdependence Between the US and Mexico, edited by C. Reynolds and R. Hinojosa (Stanford UP, 1992); and "Transnational Migration, Assimilation and Political Community ," in The City and the World, edited by M. Crahan and A. Vourvoulias-Bush (Council ofForeign Relations, 1997). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. 311 Diaspora 9:2 2000 Yossi Shain is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, where he has also served as Chair of the Department , and is currently Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the US and their Homelands (Cambridge UP, 1994) and The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exile in the Age ofthe Nation-State (Wesleyan UP, 1989). He is also co-editor ofthree books, including Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics (Routledge, 1991), and author of some twentyfive articles, including "The Mexican-American Diaspora's Impact on Mexico" (Political Science Quarterly, 1999-2000). Philip Q. Yang is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University. He is the author ofPost-1965 Immigration to the United States: Structural Determinants (Praeger, 1995) and Ethnic Studies: Issues and Approaches (SUNY P, 2000), and the editor of Introduction to Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Kendall/Hunt, 1999). His recent articles have appeared in International Migration Review, Journal of Asian American Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Population and Environment, and several edited volumes. 312 ...