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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Rubén G. Rumbaut is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology, political science, and psychology.

Their scholarly output includes work published in the journal Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, with a recent paper titled Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America published in 2024.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Rumbaut's main fields of study are Social Sciences and Psychology, with subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Demography.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, Charlie V. Morgan, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, and Katie Dingeman-Cerda.

Rumbaut has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Immigrant America: A Portrait

    Alejandro Portes;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Legacies : the story of the immigrant second generation

    Alejandro Portes;Rubén Gustavo Rumbaut

  • The Crucible Within: Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, and Segmented Assimilation among Children of Immigrants.

    Ruben G. Rumbaut

  • Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts: Decomposing the Immigrant First and Second Generations in the United States

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Assimilation and its discontents: between rhetoric and reality.

    Ruben G. Rumbaut

  • Immigrant America: A Portrait.

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

  • Ethnic minorities and mental health.

    William A. Vega;Ruben G. Rumbaut

  • On the frontier of adulthood: Theory, research, and public policy.

    Richard A. Settersten;Frank F. Furstenberg;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Ethnicities : Children of Immigrants in America

    Ruben G. Rumbaut;Alejandro Portes

  • Introduction: The Second Generation and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study

    Alejandro Portes;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • A Distorted Nation: Perceptions of Racial/Ethnic Group Sizes and Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Other Minorities

    Richard D. Alba;Ruben G. Rumbaut;Karen Marotz

  • Growing Up is Harder to do

    Frank F. Furstenberg;Sheela Kennedy;Vonnie C. McLoyd;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Gendered paths: Educational and occupational expectations and outcomes among adult children of immigrants

    Cynthia Feliciano;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California

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

  • Immigrant America: A Portrait

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Turning points in the transition to adulthood: Determinants of educational attainment, incarceration, and early childbearing among children of immigrants

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Reaping What You Sow: Immigration, Youth, and Reactive Ethnicity

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • The New Californians: Comparative Research Findings on the Educational Progress of Immigrant Children

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • PARADOXES (AND ORTHODOXIES) OF ASSIMILATION

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America

    Silvia Pedraza;Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • The agony of exile: A study of the migration and adaptation of Indochinese refugee adults and children.

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • The Adaptation of Southeast Asian Refugee Youth: A Comparative Study. Final Report to the Office of Resettlement.

    Ruben G. Rumbaut;Kenji Ima

  • California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research, and Implications for Educational Policy

    Rubén G. Rumbaut;Wayne A. Cornelius

  • Immigration and Adult Transitions

    Rubén G. Rumbaut;Golnaz Komaie

  • Severed or Sustained Attachments? Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities in the Post-Immigrant Generation

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • The Coming of the Second Generation: Immigration and Ethnic Mobility in Southern California:

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Immigration & Language Diversity in the United States

    Rubén G. Rumbaut;Douglas S. Massey

  • Sites of Belonging: Acculturation, Discrimination, and Ethnic Identity Among Children of Immigrants

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Ties that Bind: Immigration and Immigrant Families

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Reaping What You Sew: Immigration, Youth, and Reactive Ethnicity

    Rubén G. Rumbaut

  • Perceptions of Racial/Ethnic Group Sizes and Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Other Minorities

    Richard Alba;Rubén G. Rumbaut

Frequent Co-Authors

Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes University of Miami
Richard A. Settersten
Richard A. Settersten Oregon State University
Frank D. Bean
Frank D. Bean University of California, Irvine
Frank F. Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Foner
Nancy Foner City University of New York
Richard D. Alba
Richard D. Alba City University of New York
Mary C. Waters
Mary C. Waters Harvard University
Douglas S. Massey
Douglas S. Massey Princeton University
Cecilia Menjívar
Cecilia Menjívar University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas S. Weisner
Thomas S. Weisner University of California, Los Angeles

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