| Wayne A. Cornelius | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Political science, sociology |
| Workplaces: | University of California at San Diego, Oxford University, MIT, Reed College |
| Education: | College of Wooster, Stanford University |
| Thesis Title: | Politics and poverty in urban Mexico: political learning among the migrant poor |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1235492 |
| Thesis Year: | 1974 |
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| Known For: | Work on immigration to the United States from Mexico |
| Awards: | President of Mexico Aguila Azteca award for lifetime contributions to U.S.-Mexican understanding, 2009 |
| Spouses: | )--> Doil Jaralin Rahn |
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Wayne Cornelius is a U.S. scholar of comparative immigration policy and Mexican politics and development. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio in 1967. Cornelius founded the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1979, and directed it from 1979–1994 and 2001-2003. He was also the founding director of UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, established in 1999.[1] Cornelius is also a Past President of the Latin American Studies Association.[2] Cornelius has also been a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).
Cornelius taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1971-1979, at the University of California-San Diego from 1979 to 2015, and at Oxford University in 1992 and 1994. Since 2018 he has been Visiting Professor of Political Science at Reed College and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Portland State University, both in Portland, Oregon. He remains actively engaged in research, policy advising, and lecturing on immigration policy issues.[3]
Cornelius' main expertise is on Mexico and Mexican and Central American migration to the U.S., Latin American migration to Japan and Spain, the Mexican political system and justice system, and measuring the efficacy of immigration control policies pursued by the United States and other countries of immigration. He has done field research in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, and Japan.
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