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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Frank D. Bean is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to migration, labor dynamics, and integration.

The scientist's work spans several areas within the social sciences, with a concentration in sociology and political science. Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

Within this broader category, their research has also covered subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • Public Administration

The main topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
  • Labor Movements and Unions

Frank D. Bean has contributed to several recent scholarly works, including:

  • The Context and Consequences of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
  • Refugee Status, Settlement Assistance, and the Educational Integration of Migrants' Children in the United States, 2021, International Migration Review
  • Immigration Policy, 2025, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank D. Bean include:

  • Susan K. Brown
  • Thoa V. Khuu
  • Silvia E. Giorguli
  • Bryant Jensen
  • Susan L. Brown

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • International Migration Review
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

Among their distinctions, Frank D. Bean was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • The Hispanic Population of the United States

    Frank D. Bean;Marta Tienda

  • America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity

    Frank D. Bean;Gillian Stevens

  • Immigrant America: A Portrait.

    Frank D. Bean;Alejandro Portes;Ruben G. Rumbaut

  • AMERICA'S CHANGING COLOR LINES: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification

    Jennifer Lee;Frank D. Bean

  • Reinventing the Color Line Immigration and America's New Racial/Ethnic Divide

    Jennifer Lee;Frank D. Bean

  • Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California

    Rubén G. Rumbaut;Douglas S. Massey;Frank D. Bean

  • Undocumented Mexican immigrants and the earnings of other workers in the United States

    Frank D. Bean;B. Lindsay Lowell;Lowell J. Taylor

  • Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration

    Frank D. Bean;Susan K. Brown;James D. Bachmeier

  • Assimilation, Disruption and the Fertility of Mexican-Origin Women in the United States.

    Elizabeth Hervey Stephen;Frank D. Bean

  • The educational legacy of unauthorized migration: comparisons across U.S.-immigrant groups in how parents' status affects their offspring.

    Frank D. Bean;Mark A. Leach;Susan K. Brown;James D. Bachmeier

  • Undocumented migration to the United States : IRCA and the experience of the 1980s

    Frank D. Bean;Barry Edmonston;Jeffrey S. Passel

  • Familism and Marital Satisfaction Among Mexican Americans: The Effects of Family Size, Wife's Labor Force Participation, and Conjugal Power.

    Frank D. Bean;Russell L. Curtis;John P. Marcum

  • Circular, invisible, and ambiguous migrants: components of difference in estimates of the number of unauthorized Mexican migrants in the United States.

    Frank D. Bean;Rodolfo Corona;Rodolfo Tuiran;Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield

  • Immigration and changing patterns of extended family household structure in the United States: 1970-1990.

    Jennifer Elyse Glick;Frank D. Bean;Jennifer Lynne Van Hook

  • For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization

    Jennifer Van Hook;Susan K. Brown;Frank D. Bean

  • Mexican American Fertility Patterns

    Frank D. Bean;Gray Swicegood

  • Undocumented migration to the United States: perceptions and evidence.

    Bean Fd;Telles Ee;Lowell Bl

  • Immigration and opportunity : race, ethnicity, and employment in the United States

    Frank D. Bean;Stephanie Bell-Rose

  • Help or Hindrance?: The Economic Implications of Immigration for African Americans

    Daniel S. Hamermesh;Frank D. Bean

  • Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times:

    Frank D. Bean

  • The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice:

    Frank D. Bean

  • The Hispanic Population of the United States.

    Adalberto Aguirre;Frank D. Bean;Marta Tienda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Van Hook
Jennifer Van Hook Pennsylvania State University
Marta Tienda
Marta Tienda Princeton University
Douglas S. Massey
Douglas S. Massey Princeton University
John R. Hipp
John R. Hipp University of California, Irvine
Michael J. White
Michael J. White Brown University
Janet L. Lauritsen
Janet L. Lauritsen University of Missouri–St. Louis
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson Harvard University
Jeffrey A. Burr
Jeffrey A. Burr University of Massachusetts Boston
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

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