Wei Li
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Associate Professor
Wilson 362
(480) 727-6556
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Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies Affiliate Faculty: Center for Asian Research, North American Center for Transborder Studies, Center for Population Dynamics; School of Justice and Social Inquiry; Women and Gender Studies |
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Education: |
1997 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of Southern California |
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Research Interests: |
Immigration and integration, geography of race/ethnicity, comparative urban ethnicity, Asian American community development, ethnic finance, urban housing demographics , GIS applications in geography and ethnic studies |
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Research Activities: |
2009 - 2013 Research Grant, "Financial Institution and Immigrant Integration in the U.S. and Canada" (Wei Li, Principal Investigator) National Science Foundation (NSF), $224,272 Highly-skilled Indian and Chinese migration across the Atlantic and the Pacific Surviving Katrina and its aftermath: A comparative analysis of community mobilization and access to emergency relief by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans in an Eastern New Orleans suburb |
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Awards and Honors: |
2007 - Nominated for Distinguish Scholar Award, Ethnic Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers 1999 - Nystrom Dissertation Award, Association of American Geographers |
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Selected Publications: |
Books Li, W. (2009). Ethnoburb: the New Ethnic Community in Urban America. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Li, W. ed. (2006). From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: new Asian communities in Pacific Rim countries . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Kaplan, D. and Li, W. eds. (2006). Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Journal Articles Li, W., A.. Oberle, and G. Dymski. (2009). Global Banking and Financial Services to Immigrants in Canada and the United States. Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, 10(2): 1-29. Li, W., C. Airriess, A. Chia-Chen Chen, K. L. Leong, V. Keith, and K. Adams. (2008). Surviving Katrina and its Aftermath: A comparative analysis of community mobilization and access to emergency relief by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans in an Eastern New Orleans Suburb. Journal of Cultural Geography, 25(3): 263-286. Airriess, C., W.Li, K. J. Leong, A. Chia-Chen Chen, and V. Keith. (2008). Church-Based Social Capital, Networks and Geographical Scale: Katrina Evacuation, Relocation, and Recovery in a New Orleans Vietnamese American Community. GeoForum 39(3): 1333-1346. Foote, K., W. Li, J. Monk, and R. Theobald. (2008). Foreign-born Scholars in U.S. Universities: Issues, Concerns, and Strategies. Journal of Geographical Higher Education 32(2): 167-178. Leong, K. J., Airriess, C. A., Li, W., Chen, A. C., & Keith, V. (2007). Resilient History and the Rebuilding of a Community: The Vietnamese American Community in New Orleans East. The Journal of American History. 2007, 79-88.
Li, W., & Teixeira, C. (2007). Immigrants and Transnational Experiences in World Cities. GeoJournal , 68(2-3):93-102. Book Chapters Zeng, W. and W. Li. (2009) Chinese Week: Building Chinese American Community through Festivity in Metropolitan Phoenix. In Ling, H. ed. Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries,(pp.154-178). NJ: Rutgers Press. Oberle, A. & Li, W. (2008). Divergent Trajectories: Asian and Latino immigration in Metropolitan Phoenix. In Singer, A., Hardwick, S. & Brettell, C. eds. Suburban Immigrant Gateways: Immigration and Incorporation in New U.S. Metropolitan Destinations (pp.85-102). Washington D.C.: Brookings. Institution (2008) Li, W., & Skop, E. (2007). Enclaves, Ethnoburbs,and New Patterns of Settlement among Asian immigrants. In Zhou, M. & Gatewood, J. eds. Contemporary Asian America: A multi-disciplinary reader 2nd Edition (pp.222-236). New York: New York University Press. Leong, K. J., Airriess, C. A., Keith, V., Chen, A. C., Li, W., Wang, Y. & Adams, K. (2007). From Invisibility to Hypervisibility: The Complexity of Race, Survival, and Resiliency for the Vietnamese American Community in Eastern New Orleans. In Swan, R. & Bates, K. eds. Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, (pp.169-185). Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
Li, W., & Dymski, G. (2007). Globally Connected and Locally Embedded Financial Institutions: Analyzing the ethnic Chinese banking sector. In Fong, E. ed., Chinese Ethnic Economy: Global and Local Perspectives (pp.35-63). London: Routledge. |
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Outreach and Service: |
Professor Li is vice-chair of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee on the Asian Population. Since 2003 she has served on the U.S. Census Bureau's Census Race and Ethnic Advisory Committee Committee, and has taken several leadership roles with this group. She is is a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Metropolis Project. Locally, she serves on the Arizona Attorney General's Asian American Community Justice Council and Senior Advisory council. She speaks to community groups on her area of expertise, and has been interviewed by CBC Radio, Radio Canada and World Journal. In addition, she is immediate past president of the Population Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, is immediate past chair of its Ethnic Geography Specialty Group, was a member of several other AAG committees, and serves on university and college committees. |