Biography

Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is currently the Project Director at UCLA Labor Center leading the Global Labor Solidarity Program. He is also the Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. He teaches classes on work, labor and social justice in the US and immigration and farmworkers issues. Among his publications include the following academic articles (with T. Higbie) “The Border at Work: Undocumented Workers, the ILGWU in Los Angeles, and the Limits of Labor Citizenship,” (2022); (with S. Camacho) “Lost in Translation en el Fil: Actualizing Cultural Humility for Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in California,” (2020); (with L. Escala Rabadán) “Asociaciones de inmigrantes, reproducción cultural y agencia entre inmigrantes mexicanos indígenas en Estados Unidos,” (2020). He also edited the volume (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (UCSD 2005); and the volume (with E. Telles, and M. Sawyer) Just Neighbors: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States (Russell Sage, 2011). He received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Courses Taught

LBR STD 126: Farmworker Transnational Struggle

LBR STD 101: Introduction to Labor and Social Movements in Los Angeles

LBR 188: Cross Border Solidarity: Introductions to Labor Movements and Transnational Campaigns in Mexico and the U.S.

LBR STD 181: LA Labor and Social Science Research Principles, Methods, and Practice