| Ph.D. 1998 University of California, Santa Barbara (Cultural Anthropology) |
| B.A. 1984 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain |
Dr. Zlolniski is a social anthropologist specialized in immigrant labor and the ways in which changes in the capitalist global economy affects immigrant workers. His research interests include economic globalization, international migration, applied anthropology, and Latino studies. He has published on the experiences of Mexican immigrants in Northern California's Silicon Valley, examining issues of labor, informal economies, family organization, and political mobilization. He is currently participating in a collaborative research project in Baja California, Mexico, which focuses on the impacts of export-oriented agricultural industry on the labor and living conditions of indigenous immigrant workers in the region. |
ANTH 2322 Global Cultures
ANTH 3339 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 3348 Anthropology of Migration
MAS 2300 Introduction to Mexican American Studies
MAS 3310 Latinos in the U.S.
ANTH 5370 Applied Anthropology
| 2006. Janitors, Street Vendors and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley . Berkeley and London: University of California Press. |
Journal Articles: |
2003. Labor Control and Resistance of Mexican Immigrant Janitors in Silicon Valley. Human Organization 62 (1): 39-49. |
2001. Zlolniski, C. and Canales, A. Comunidades Transnacionales y Migración en la Era de la Globalización. Notas de Población No 73: 221-252. Santiago de Chile, Chile. |
2000. Etnografía de trabajadores informales en un barrio de inmigrantes mexicanos en el Silicon Valley. Revista Mexicana de Sociología. Año LXII/ Núm. 2: 59-87. |
1994. The Informal Economy in an Advanced Industrialized Society: Mexican Immigrant Labor in Silicon Valley. The Yale Law Journal 103 (8): 2305-2335. |
| Book Chapters: |
Forthcoming 2007. Political mobilization and activism among Latinos/as in the United States. In Latino/a Sourcebook. Edited by H. Rodríguez, R. Saenz, and C. Menjivar. Springer. |
Forthcoming 2007. Globalization and Shifting Capital-Labor Power relations in Baja California's Export-Oriented Agriculture. In The Anthropology of Unions. Edited by K. Reichart, and Paul Durrenberger. University of Colorado Press. |
2006. Immigrant Labor in the New United States Economy: An Anthropological Critique. Chapter 12 (pp. 265-282) in Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by Paul Durrenberger and Judith Marti. Oxford, UK: Altamira Press. |
2003. Justicia para los trabajadores de la limpieza: Resistencia y organización sindical de inmigrantes Mexicanos en el Silicon Valley. Chapter 3 (pp. 67-88) in Las Expresiones Locales de la Globalización: México y España. Edited by Carmen Bueno y Encarnación Aguilar. México City, Mexico: Ciesas, U. Iberoamericana, Porrua. |
2001. Unskilled Immigrant Labor in High-Tech Companies: The Case of Mexican Janitors in Silicon Valley. Chapter 10 (pp. 265-287) in The International Migration of the Highly Skilled: Demand, Supply, and Development Consequences in Sending and Receiving Countries. Edited by W. Cornelius. T. Espenshade, and I. Salehyan. La Jolla, CA: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego. |
1998. Restructuración industrial y mano de obra migrante: El caso de los trabajadores mexicanos en la industria de la limpieza de edificios en el Silicon Valley. Chapter 3 (pp. 51-75) in Migración y Fronteras. Edited by Manuel Angel Castillo, Alfredo Lattes, & Jorge Santibañez. México: COLEF, Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, COLMEX. |