Ron Schmidt, Professor of Political Science California State University, Long Beach Research Interests * Ethnic and Racial Politics and Public Policy * The Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States * The Politics of Language * The Politics of Identity * Latino Politics in the United States Recent Publications (post 2000) Books Insiders, Outsiders, and Newcomers: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-First Century (lead author, with Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Andrew Aoki, and Rodney Hero). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. Click here for book notice. Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. [Awarded Year 2000 Best Book on Public Policies, Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States, given by the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics, September 1, 2001]. Click here for Amazon link. Book Chapters “Immigration, Diversity, and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy,” in R. Jeffrey Lustig, ed. California’s Constitutional Crisis, and Reclaiming the Public Good. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2010), pp. 121-139. Click here to see book flyer. “English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the US,” in M. Rafael Salaberry, ed., Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US. (Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2009), pp. 132-150. “Vers un pluralisme culturel viable: le rôle de la migration internationale” (“Toward a Viable Cultural Pluralism: The Role of International Migration”), in François Crépeau, Delphine Nakache, and Idil Atak, eds., Les migrations internationales contemporaines: Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalization (Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2009), pp. 309-324. “Defending English in an English-Dominant World: the Ideology of the ‘Official English’ Movement in the United States,” in Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchene, eds., Discourses of Endangerment: Interest and Ideology in the Defense of Languages (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007), pp. 197-215. “Value-Critical Policy Analysis: the Case of Language Policy in the United States,” in Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), 2006, pp. 300-315. “Language Policy Conflict and Latino Political Identity: ‘Symbolic’ Politics and ‘Material Interest’ Politics,” in William E. Nelson, Jr. and Jessica Perez-Monforti, eds., Black and Latino Politics: Issues in American Political Development (Miami: Barnhardt and Ash, Publishers), 2006, pp. 2-11. “Political Theory and Language Policy Research,” in Thomas Ricento, ed., An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Methods (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing), 2005, pp 95-110. Refereed Journal Articles “Acculturation Orientations and Social Relations Between Immigrant and Host Community Members in California” (with Richard Y. Bourhis, Genevieve Barrette, and Shaha El-Geledi), Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 40:3 (May 2009), pp. 443-467. “Comparing Federal Government Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 37:1 (2007), pp. 103-122. “Immigrant Settlement Policy in North America: Two Challenges in the ‘Post-9/11’ Era,” Canadian Foreign Policy, 12:3 (2006), pp. 117-123. “Racialization and language policy: The case of the U.S.A.,” Multilingua. 21 (2002), pp. 141-161. “Latina/o Identities: Social Diversity and U.S. Politics” (lead author, with Edwina Barvosa-Carter and Rodolfo D. Torres), PS: Political Science and Politics. 33;3 (September 2000), pp. 563-567. Book Reviews David Fitzgerald, A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009); and Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker, Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of “El Migrante” (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008), Perspectives on Politics 7:4 (December 2009), pp. 959-961. Chang, Mitchell J., Daria Witt, James Jones, and Kenji Hakuta, eds. Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003), Educational Review 57:1 (February 2005), pp. 106-108. John Francis Burke, Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2002), Review of Politics (2004). Ruth Wodak, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl, and Karin Liebhart, The Discursive Construction of National Identity, Angelika Hirsch and Richard Mitten (trans.). (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 154 (2002), pp. 99-101. Rebecca Reichmann, ed. Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality. (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34:1 (2001) Works in Progress “’Settling’ Immigrants in North America and Europe” – a comparative analysis of immigrant settlement policies. Recent Conference Papers Presented (post 2000) “Citizen-Making in Four Countries: An Interpretive Analysis of Citizenship Policies for International Migrants in the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Israel” (with Dvora Yanow, Marleen van der Haar, Richard Lozano, and Karleen Volke), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1, 2010. “Newcomers Becoming Insiders: The Making of Citizens from Migrants in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, and Israel” (with Dvora Yanow, Marleen van der Haar, Richard Lozano, and Karleen Volke), presented at the APPAM International Conference on Migration and Migration Policy, Maastrich, NL, February 18-20, 2010. “Latino Voters and California Politics: A Developmental Perspective,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, November 13, 2009. “Assessing What’s at Stake in Approaches to Immigrant Settlement Policy: A Framework for Comparative Analysis,” presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, July 16, 2009. “Language and Immigration Political Conflicts in the USA,” presented at the Conference on Language and Identity Politics in Europe and North America, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 12, 2009. “Perceptions of Context and Immigrant Settlement Policy in the United States: Toward a Value-Critical Policy Analysis,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, B.C., March 19, 2009. “Immigrants, Public Policy and Racial Equality in the United States,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 30, 2008. “Immigrants and Racial Equality on the American Public Policy Agenda: Interpretations and Perspectives,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 20, 2008. “Latinos and Language: Why No Political Movement for a Bilingual Language Policy?”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2, 2007. “Abusing Language Issues in California’s Immigration Debate,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 22, 2007. “Comparing Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 9, 2007. “Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” presented at the Enders Conference on the State of the Canada – U.S. Relationship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., December 15, 2006. “English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the United States,” presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, July 8, 2006. “Immigration and the Future of Political Conservatism in the United States,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Center for International Studies (CERIUM), Université de Montréal, Canada, March 31, 2006. “Defending English in an English-Dominant World: The Ideology of the ‘Official English’ Movement in the United States,” presented at the Conference on Social Issues of Applied Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel (CH), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 17, 2004. “Language Policy Research and Political Theory,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 12, 2004. “Language Policy, Identity Politics and Political Theory,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 29, 2003. “The Impact of Recent Immigration on Ethno-Racial Politics in the United States,” (lead author, with Rodney Hero, Andrew Aoki, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh), presented at the Nineteenth World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, June 30, 2003. “Value-Critical Policy Analysis: the Case of Language Policy in the United States,” presented at the Workshop on Interpretive Methods of Political Research, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, CO, March 29, 2003. “Political Science, The New Immigration and Racial Politics in the United States: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?,” (lead author, with Rodney Hero, Andrew Aoki, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2002. “The Quest for Racial Equality: A Public Policy Framework,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2002. “Public Policy and Racial Equality: A Framework for Analysis,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 2001. “Racialisation and Culture in Language Policy Conflict—a Perspective from the U.S.A.,” presented at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of West England, Bristol, UK, April 2001. “Psychological Profile of Acculturation Orientations: Comparing Host Majority Undergraduates in Los Angeles, Paris, and Montreal,” (with Annie Montreuil, Genevieve Barrette, Richard Bourhis, Marie Personnaz, and Bernard Personnaz), Fifth International Metropolis Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2000. “Profil d’acculturation des communautés d’accueil: comparaison des Québécois avec les Francais et les Américains” (“Immigrant Acculturation Profiles: Comparison of French-speaking Québécois and Americans”) (with Genevieve Barrette, Annie Montreuil, Richard Y. Bourhis, and Marie et Bernard Personnaz), Annual Conference of the Center for Ethnic Studies, University of Montreal (CEETUM), Montreal, Canada, April 2000.

Ron Schmidt, Professor of Political Science

California State University, Long Beach

Research Interests

* Ethnic and Racial Politics and Public Policy

* The Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States

* The Politics of Language

* The Politics of Identity

* Latino Politics in the United States

Recent Publications (post 2000)

Books

Insiders, Outsiders, and Newcomers: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-First Century (lead author, with Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Andrew Aoki, and Rodney Hero). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. Click here for book notice.

Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. [Awarded Year 2000 Best Book on Public Policies, Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States, given by the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics, September 1, 2001]. Click here for Amazon link.

Book Chapters

“Immigration, Diversity, and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy,” in R. Jeffrey Lustig, ed. California’s Constitutional Crisis, and Reclaiming the Public Good. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2010), pp. 121-139. Click here to see book flyer.

“English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the US,” in M. Rafael Salaberry, ed., Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US. (Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2009), pp. 132-150.

“Vers un pluralisme culturel viable: le rôle de la migration internationale” (“Toward a Viable Cultural Pluralism: The Role of International Migration”), in François Crépeau, Delphine Nakache, and Idil Atak, eds., Les migrations internationales contemporaines: Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalization (Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2009), pp. 309-324.

“Defending English in an English-Dominant World: the Ideology of the ‘Official English’ Movement in the United States,” in Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchene, eds., Discourses of Endangerment: Interest and Ideology in the Defense of Languages (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007), pp. 197-215.

“Value-Critical Policy Analysis: the Case of Language Policy in the United States,” in Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), 2006, pp. 300-315.

“Language Policy Conflict and Latino Political Identity: ‘Symbolic’ Politics and ‘Material Interest’ Politics,” in William E. Nelson, Jr. and Jessica Perez-Monforti, eds., Black and Latino Politics: Issues in American Political Development (Miami: Barnhardt and Ash, Publishers), 2006, pp. 2-11.

“Political Theory and Language Policy Research,” in Thomas Ricento, ed., An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Methods (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing), 2005, pp 95-110.

Refereed Journal Articles

“Acculturation Orientations and Social Relations Between Immigrant and Host Community Members in California” (with Richard Y. Bourhis, Genevieve Barrette, and Shaha El-Geledi), Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 40:3 (May 2009), pp. 443-467.

“Comparing Federal Government Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 37:1 (2007), pp. 103-122.

“Immigrant Settlement Policy in North America: Two Challenges in the ‘Post-9/11’ Era,” Canadian Foreign Policy, 12:3 (2006), pp. 117-123.

“Racialization and language policy: The case of the U.S.A.,” Multilingua. 21 (2002), pp. 141-161.

“Latina/o Identities: Social Diversity and U.S. Politics” (lead author, with Edwina Barvosa-Carter and Rodolfo D. Torres), PS: Political Science and Politics. 33;3 (September 2000), pp. 563-567.

Book Reviews

David Fitzgerald, A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009); and Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker, Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of “El Migrante” (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008), Perspectives on Politics 7:4 (December 2009), pp. 959-961.

Chang, Mitchell J., Daria Witt, James Jones, and Kenji Hakuta, eds. Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003), Educational Review 57:1 (February 2005), pp. 106-108.

John Francis Burke, Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2002), Review of Politics (2004).

Ruth Wodak, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl, and Karin Liebhart, The Discursive Construction of National Identity, Angelika Hirsch and Richard Mitten (trans.). (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 154 (2002), pp. 99-101.

Rebecca Reichmann, ed. Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality. (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34:1 (2001)

Works in Progress

“’Settling’ Immigrants in North America and Europe” – a comparative analysis of immigrant settlement policies.

Recent Conference Papers Presented (post 2000)

“Citizen-Making in Four Countries: An Interpretive Analysis of Citizenship Policies for International Migrants in the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Israel” (with Dvora Yanow, Marleen van der Haar, Richard Lozano, and Karleen Volke), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1, 2010.

“Newcomers Becoming Insiders: The Making of Citizens from Migrants in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, and Israel” (with Dvora Yanow, Marleen van der Haar, Richard Lozano, and Karleen Volke), presented at the APPAM International Conference on Migration and Migration Policy, Maastrich, NL, February 18-20, 2010.

“Latino Voters and California Politics: A Developmental Perspective,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, November 13, 2009.

“Assessing What’s at Stake in Approaches to Immigrant Settlement Policy: A Framework for Comparative Analysis,” presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, July 16, 2009.

“Language and Immigration Political Conflicts in the USA,” presented at the Conference on Language and Identity Politics in Europe and North America, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 12, 2009.

“Perceptions of Context and Immigrant Settlement Policy in the United States: Toward a Value-Critical Policy Analysis,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, B.C., March 19, 2009.

“Immigrants, Public Policy and Racial Equality in the United States,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 30, 2008.

“Immigrants and Racial Equality on the American Public Policy Agenda: Interpretations and Perspectives,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 20, 2008.

“Latinos and Language: Why No Political Movement for a Bilingual Language Policy?”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2, 2007.

“Abusing Language Issues in California’s Immigration Debate,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 22, 2007.

“Comparing Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 9, 2007.

“Immigrant Settlement Policies in Canada and the United States,” presented at the Enders Conference on the State of the Canada – U.S. Relationship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., December 15, 2006.

“English Hegemony and the Politics of Ethno-Linguistic Justice in the United States,” presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, July 8, 2006.

“Immigration and the Future of Political Conservatism in the United States,” presented at the Annual Conference of the Center for International Studies (CERIUM), Université de Montréal, Canada, March 31, 2006.

“Defending English in an English-Dominant World: The Ideology of the ‘Official English’ Movement in the United States,” presented at the Conference on Social Issues of Applied Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel (CH), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, September 17, 2004.

“Language Policy Research and Political Theory,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 12, 2004.

“Language Policy, Identity Politics and Political Theory,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 29, 2003.

“The Impact of Recent Immigration on Ethno-Racial Politics in the United States,” (lead author, with Rodney Hero, Andrew Aoki, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh), presented at the Nineteenth World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, June 30, 2003.

“Value-Critical Policy Analysis: the Case of Language Policy in the United States,” presented at the Workshop on Interpretive Methods of Political Research, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, CO, March 29, 2003.

“Political Science, The New Immigration and Racial Politics in the United States: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?,” (lead author, with Rodney Hero, Andrew Aoki, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2002.

“The Quest for Racial Equality: A Public Policy Framework,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2002.

“Public Policy and Racial Equality: A Framework for Analysis,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 2001.

“Racialisation and Culture in Language Policy Conflict—a Perspective from the U.S.A.,” presented at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of West England, Bristol, UK, April 2001.

“Psychological Profile of Acculturation Orientations: Comparing Host Majority Undergraduates in Los Angeles, Paris, and Montreal,” (with Annie Montreuil, Genevieve Barrette, Richard Bourhis, Marie Personnaz, and Bernard Personnaz), Fifth International Metropolis Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2000.

“Profil d’acculturation des communautés d’accueil: comparaison des Québécois avec les Francais et les Américains” (“Immigrant Acculturation Profiles: Comparison of French-speaking Québécois and Americans”) (with Genevieve Barrette, Annie Montreuil, Richard Y. Bourhis, and Marie et Bernard Personnaz), Annual Conference of the Center for Ethnic Studies, University of Montreal (CEETUM), Montreal, Canada, April 2000.