Papeles de POBLACIÓN No. 56 CIEAP/UAEM Contributors María Eugenia Anguiano Téllez She holds a Ph. D. in Social Science specialized in Sociology obtained at El Colegio de México. She has been researcher-professor since 1985 at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and member of the National System of Researchers since 1990. Her research and teaching interests are national and international migration. She has published articles, critical notes and reviews in Mexican journals, such as Migraciones Internacionales, Frontera Norte, Estudios Fronterizos, Demos, Carta demográfica de México, Papeles de Población, Nueva Antropología, México Indígena. Among her most recent works one finds the coordination in cooperation with Miguel Hernández Madrid of the book International Migration and changing identities (Migración internacional e identidades cambiantes), edited by El Colegio de Michoacán and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (in print) and the publishing of articles in the Spanish journals Migraciones, Cooperación Internacional and Isegoría. Revista de Filosofía Moral y Política. E-mail: anguiano@dns.colef.mx André Braz Golgher He is currently professor-researcher at the Centro de Desenvolvimiento e Planejamento Regional de la Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. He is a Ph. D. in Demography specialized in Spatial Studies from the same center. He has academic publications in topics such as migration, education, poverty and mathematics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, economics, demography, physics and chemistry in several graduate, masters and doctorate courses. His most recent research projects are in the following topics: Migration and evironment in the north of Brazil; temporal evaluation of poverty and consumption of houses in Brazil; education and poor groups of the population of the 262
Contributors Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, and migration and economic growth of the Brazilian microregions. E-mail: agolgherl@cedeplar.ufmg.br Doris Cardona Arango Graduated in Business, holds a M Sc. degree in Epidemiology and a M Sc. degree in Public Health. She is a Ph. D. student in Demography. She teaches at the University of Antioquia and CES University. Medellin, Colombia. E-mail: doriscar@guajiros.udea.edu.co, doris.cardona@gmail.com. Ari Francisco de Araujo Junior He is an economist interested in political economy and economic development. He joined the Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais in Minas Gerais (Ibmec-Minas) in 2002. He is currently researcher at the Centro de Economia Aplicada e Estratégia Empresarial del Ibmec-Minas (CEAEE/Ibmec-Minas). He has published in several professional scientific journals, having topics such as: economic causes of violent crime, political cycles of business, size of the government and productivity of Brazilian academic economists. He holds a degree in Economics from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and a master degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. E-mail: arifaj@ibmecmg_br Alejandro Díaz Garay He is a professor and researcher at the Academic Unit of Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Guerrero. He has had grants from CONACyT and Promep. Recently published works: 2008, El papel de las remesas colectivas en el desarrollo regional de Guerrero, 2º Congreso internacional Migraciones Globales, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico; 2007, Antecedentes de la migración internacional y el envío de remesas, in La migración en Guerrero, Volume 1, Conapo, Coespo Guerrero, Mexico; 2007, El impacto de la emigración internacional y el envío de remesas en el estado de Guerrero, in La migración en Guerrero, Volume 1, Conapo/Coespo Guerrero, Mexico. E-mail: diazgaray@prodigy.net.mx 263 April / June 2008
Papeles de POBLACIÓN No. 56 CIEAP/UAEM Eliseo Díaz González He holds a Ph. D. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a is researcher of the Economics Department of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He is a member of the National System of Researchers level I. He has published in cooperation with Jerjes Aguirre Migración, remesas y consumo. Tienen impacto las remesas sobre el consumo agregado?, in Migración internacional y remesas en México, coordinate by Jerjes Aguirre and Oscar Hugo Pedraza Rendón, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico, 2004. As well as El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras, in Frontera Norte, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, volume 17, number 34, 2005; and La productividad total de los factores en la industria eléctrica y electrónica entre los países de la OCDE y la industria maquiladora en el norte de México, in Análisis Económico, Autonomous Metropolitan University, volume XXI, number 46, 2006. E-mail: ediaz@colef.mx David F. Fuentes Romero He is a sociologist, and holds a masters degree in Studies on Urban Planning in the speciality of Urban Analysis and Social Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he holds a Ph. D. in Applied Social Sciences from Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef). He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Social Research at the Autonomous University of Baja California. E-mail: dfuentes@uabc.mx Irma A. González Hernández She is a sociologist, and holds a master degree in Studies on Urban Planning from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. E-mail: dfuentes@uabc.mx 264
Contributors Jorge Eduardo Mendoza Cota He is a researcher at the Department of Economic studies at the El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Utah. Member of the National System of Researchers level II. He is a member of the Comittee of Redaction of the Frontera Norte magazine. Some of his published papers are: Migración regional a los EUA y desarrollo económico en México, en Remesas y desarrollo económico en México, Jerjes Aguirre, Cesar Navarro and Antonio Acevedo Coord. UCLA, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo, 2008. Determinantes económicos regionales de la migración mexicana, Migraciones Internacionales, July-December 2006, Vol. 3, Num. 4, El TLCAN, la frontera y la integración México-Estados Unidos: Aspectos económicos, El Colegio de La Frontera Norte. E-mail: emendoza@colef.mx María del Carmen Juárez Gutiérrez She is a researcher at the Department of Social Geography at the Institute of Geography of the National Autonomous Univesity of Mexico. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level 1. She has published: 2007, El mapa como instrumento del saber geográfico, in Nuevas perspectivas en la enseñanza de la geografía en México, INEGI, Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics, Mexico; 2007, Mexico: dinámica espacial urbana en el siglo XX, memoirs on the International Geography, Envirnoment and Territorial Organization, Habana University; in coauthorship with Rafael Sánchez 2007, Efectos de la globalización en la población indígena oaxaqueña, in Pedro Chale and Luis Varguez (compilers) Sociedad y Cultura: Las múltiples caras de sus fronteras, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico. E-mail: mela_jg@yahoo.com.mx Enrique Pérez Campuzano He holds degree in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He holds a M Sc. in Planning and Metropolitan Policies from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, campus Azcapotzalco. He holds a Ph. D. in Geograhpy from the UNAM. Recently published works: 2006, Migración, 265 April / June 2008
Papeles de POBLACIÓN No. 56 CIEAP/UAEM in Helena Cotler, Marisa Mazari and José de Anda (eds.), Atlas de la Cuenca Lerma-Chapala: Construyendo una visión de conjunto, Mexico, INE; 2006, Emigración de la ZMCM y reestructuración urbano-egional, in Guillermo Aguilar Adrián, Procesos metropolitanos y grandes ciudades, Mexico, UNAM; 2006, El sector servicios de la Ciudad de México: una breve descripción de la situación del empleo, in María Soledad Cruz (coord), Espacios metropolitanos II. Población, planeación y políticas de gobierno, Mexico, UAM- Red Nacional de Investigación Urbana. E-mail: enriperang@gmail.com Clemencia Santos Cerquera She holds studies in Cadastral Engineering and Geodesy from the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia. She holds an Master in Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is a professor at the institute of Geography of the UNAM.Recently published works: 2004, Monitoreo por imágenes de satélite de la expansión metropolitana de la Ciudad de México, in A.G. Aguilar (coord.). Procesos metropolitanos y grandes ciudades. dinámicas recientes en México y otros países, Cahmber of Deputies, Conacyt, Institute of Geography, CRIM/PUEC/UNAM/Miguel Ángel Porrúa, Mexico; 2005, Bases for a policy for the development of logistic platforms in the Metropolitan zone of Mexico city, in E. Taniguchi and R. Thompson (editors),. City logistics IV, Institute for City Logistics, Langkawi, Malaysia; 2005, C. Santos, I. Escamilla, L. Guarneros, Dimensión socioambiental y desarrollo regional en la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México y su periferia, in R. Wences, R. López, and L. Sanpedro, (coords.); Dimensiones sociales y ambientales del desarrollo regional, Amecider/Uagro, Coordination of Humanities at UNAM, DPA PrintersImpresores Mexico. E-mail: csc8896@hotmail.com Carlos Enrique Rosa He is an economist from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is currently working for the Brazilian Federal Government in Brasilia. E-mail: agolgherl@cedeplar.ufmg.br 266
Contributors Germán Vega Briones He holds a degree in Social Antropology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, he holds an M in A in Sociology from the University of Texas and a master degree from El Colegio de Michoacán in Social Antropology. He hoolds a doctorate in Sociology, specialized in qualitative methods, international migration and ethnicity at the University of Texas. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SIN), level I. He is currently a professor researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. His research interests are international migration, family and gender. He recently published Percepciones y actitudes de los varones de la frontera norte acerca del empleo femenino: hacia una nueva reconceptualizacion cultural del empleo fronterizo, 2002, in Manuel Ribeiro et al.(coords.), La familia en America del Norte. Evolución, problemática y política; Migracion internacional y cambio económico en una zona rural de Jalisco, 2003, in Germán Zárate (coord.), Problemas y perspectivas de las remesas de los mexicanos y centroamericanos en Estados Unidos and Algunos cambios acerca del matrimonio y la familia en la región Ciudad Juárez/El Paso, 2003, in Fernando Lozano (coord.), La población de México al inicio del siglo XXI, Mexico. E-mail: gvega@dns.colef.mx 267 April / June 2008