JUAN C GARCIA-ELLIN
E-mail: jcgarcia@ucla.edu
Office: 3221A Bunche Hall

EDUCATION

PhD Candidate, UCLA (CPhil, 2008).
MA-Geography SUNY-Binghamton, 2000.
JD-Law University of Puerto Rico, 1996.
BA-Geography University of Puerto Rico, 1993.

SUBFIELDS

Urban Geography, Population Geography, Domestic and International Migration, Ethnicity and Place, Geography of Popular Music.

NOTES

MA Thesis: An Analysis of Areas of Hispanic Concentration in U.S. Urban Counties

RESEARCH

Hispanic Migration in US urban areas. Differences in Hispanic/Latino population subgroups. Domestic and international migration patterns. Latin Music in the US.

PUBLICATIONS

• García-Ellín, Juan C., 2009, Gated Communities and Housing Projects: the Control of Public Space in San Juan. Southeastern Geographer 49(4): 354-375.

• García-Ellín, Juan C., 2007, Espacios del Capital por David Harvey (Book Review). Guaraguao 26(Winter 2007):173-5.

• García-Ellín, Juan C., 2000, Changes in the US Hispanic Population: Recent Trends and Future Estimates. Research in Contemporary and Applied Geography: a Discussions Series 24(2):1-21

• García-Ellín, Juan C., 2000, Areas of Hispanic Concentrations: A Differentiation of Urban Subareas in Forty US Counties. Research in Contemporary and Applied Geography: a Discussions Series 24(4):1-23

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship
UCLA DIGSSS Fellow
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship 2006-7

ADVISORS

W.A.V. Clark
Lisa Kim Davis
Allen J. Scott
Cesar J. Ayala

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• March 2009: AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Title: The housing market as factor in the selection of new destinations of the Hispanic Domestic Migration in the US

• November 2008: Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference IV, Miami, FL
Title: Where are they from? The Hispanic Domestic Migration to Florida.

• April 2007: AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Title: Educational Attainment of Domestic Hispanic Migrants: The Case of California.

• October 1999: Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, NC
Title: Minority Concentrations in American Urban Countries: A Framework for Urban Social Analysis and Policy Planning.

• April 1998: AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Title: Inner City/Outer City: An Assessment of the Areas of Minority Concentration (AOMC's) of Oakland, CA and Philadelphia, PA. (Poster Session)

• October 1997: AAG Middle States Regional Meeting, Buffalo, NY
Title: The Concept of Area of Minority Concentration (AOMC) and its Role in Assessing Urban Differences: The AOMC of Oakland, CA. (Poster Session)