Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield Biographical Page
Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield is a demographer and sociologist with a publication record on size and characteristics of the U.S. foreign-born population, quantifying U.S. legal and unauthorized immigration and emigration, immigrant incorporation, consequences of immigration reform for unauthorized migration and family reunification, and comprehensively assessing Mexico-U.S. migration. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. Until 2002, she was a tenured associate professor in sociology at Mississippi State University. With her spouse working in Washington, D.C., she commuted for two years as visiting faculty at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, holding the position as Director of Border and Inter-American Affairs. Since that temporary appointment ended, she has worked independently on immigration, naturalization, and census issues, she has made several presentations at universities and conferences in California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, and New York. Her current activities are directed toward continuing and funding a research portfolio that includes (1) continuing the NICHD-funded research project on modeling immigrant transitions to citizenship; (2) establishing broader researcher data access for immigration research; (3) initiating data collection and modeling emigration from the United States; (4) modeling poverty measurement for immigrant families; and (5) modeling and measuring legal and unauthorized migration. She has technical strengths in data analysis and dissemination, methodological research, censuses and survey research, and regarding special populations, and she has theoretical background on immigrant incorporation.
Further information is available at http://home.comcast.net/~karenwoodrowlafield –vita, selected papers, course syllabi on migration, population, poverty, or race and ethnicity, etc. Contact by email (KarenWLafield@cs.com ) or phone (202-276-2818).