John A. Garcia

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Political Science
315 Social Sciences Building
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721

POL 596A - Spring 2009 - Syllabi (download PDF File)

• The Hispanic Challenge by Samuel Huntington
• Center for Immigration Studies
• Immigration and Politics by Wayne Cornelius
• US Immigration Policy in Global Perspective
• The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
• Immigrant Trends in Metro Washington, DC
• Rethinking Global Migration
• Mexican Immigrant Political and Economic Incorporation
• Immigration and Politics
• Political Incorporation and Historical Institutionalism: A Comparison of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium
• Immigrant Integration in Europe: Empirical Research
• On the Road to Political Incorporation: The Status of Hispanics in the Town of Cicero, Illinois
• Immigrant America How Foreigness "Solves" Democracy's Problems
• Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population
• Measuring Immigrant Simulation in the United States
• Collecting and Tabulating Race/Ethnicity Data with Diverse and Mixed Heritage Populations: A Case-Study with US High School Students
• Multiple Identity and Coalition Building: How Identity Differences Within Us Enable Radical Alliances Among Us By Edwina Barvosa-Carter
• Competing Identities? Race, Ethnicity and Panethnicity among Dominican in the United States
• Who Are We: The Perplexity of Iranian-American Identity
• The Origins and Persistence of Ethnic Identity among the "New Immigrant" Groups
• The Tribulations of Blackness: Stages in Dominican Racial Identity By Silvio Torres-Saillant
• Reconstructing Racial Identity: Ethnicity, Color and Class Among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico by Jorge Duany
• Identity Politics and Local Political Culture: The Politics of Gender, Race, Class and Religion in Comparative Perspective Richard E. DeLeon and Katherine C. Naff of San Francisco State University
• The Racial and Ethnic Identity of Latin American Immigrants in Census 2000 by Jorge del Pinal Sharon Ennis, Population Division U.S. Census Bureau Jorge.H.delPinal@census.gov
• AT THE MARGINS: A DISTINCTIVENESS APPROACH TO THE SOCIAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL NETWORKS OF UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS AJAY MEHRA University of Cincinnati MARTIN KILDUFF DANIEL J. BRASS The Pennsylvania State University
• Incorporation, Transnationalism, and Gender: Immigrant Incorporation and Transnational Participation as Gendered Processes
• Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion
• Strategic Intersectionality: Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Incorporation
• SOCIAL NETWORKS, GENDER, AND IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION: RESOURCES AND CONSTRAINTS
• Is Gender like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups
• Voluntary Organizations, Social Capital, and the Social Incorporation of Asian Indian Immigrants in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
• MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive Civic Participation of Immigrants: Culture Transmission and Assimilation Aleksynska
• Civic Engagement as a Pathway to Partisanship Acquisition for Asian Americans
• E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture
• THE RISE AND FALL OF POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT AMONG LATINOS: THE ROLE OF IDENTITY AND PERCEPTIONS OF DISCRIMINATION
• Political Integration by a Detour? Ethnic Communities and Social Capital of Migrants in Berlin
• Civic Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area May 2006
• ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
• IDENTITY VERSUS CITIZENSHIP: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES OF CITIZENSHIP
• Variation in Dual Citizenship Policies - in the Countries of the EU
• Expansive Citizenship-Voting beyond Territory and Membership
• Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox
• Two Conceptions of Citizenship
• Citizenship Solidarity and Rights Individualism: On the Decline of National Citizenship in the U.S., Germany and Israel
• Transnationalization in International Migration: Implications for the Study of Citizenship and Culture
• Nationalism and Ethnicity
• Ethnicity versus Nationalism
• American Patriotism, National Identity, and Political Involvement
• Social Science Literature and the Naturalization Process
• Changing Flags: Naturalization and Its Determinants among Mexican Immigrants
• Naturalization, Socialization, Participation: Immigrants and (Non-)Voting
• Culture Clash? Contesting Notions of American Identity and the Effects of Latin American Immigration
• Noncitizen Voting Rights: Extending the Franchise in the United States
• Reexamining the “Politics of In-Between”: Political Participation Among Mexican
  Immigrants in the United States
• ARE ANTI-IMMIGRANT STATEMENTS RACIST OR NATIVIST? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
• INVISIBLE NO MORE: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States
• Mobilizing the Latino Youth Vote
• Turf Wars: How Local Power Struggles Influence Latino Political Socialization and Voting Behavior
• How Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Shape the California Electorate
• Immigrant Organizing, Civic Outcomes: Civic Engagement, Political Activity, National Attachment, and Identity in Latino Immigrant Communities
• Indifference Towards National Identity: What Young Adults Think About Being English and British
• Extended Family Integration Among Euro and Mexican Americans: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class
• Groundswell Meets Groundwork Preliminary Recommendations for Building on Immigrant Mobilizations
• Race, Immigration, and Political Independents in America - A Book Prospectus
• Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans
• The New American Electorate: The Growing Political Power of Immigrants and Their Children
• Organizing Immigrant Communities in American Cities: Is this Transnationalism, or What?
• The Rise of the Second Generation: Changing Patterns in Hispanic Population Growth
• The New Latino South: The Context and Consequences of Rapid Population Growth
• Latino Independents and Identity Formation Under Uncertainty
• Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City
• THE EFFECTS OF AGE AND POLITICAL EXPOSURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARTY IDENTIFICATION AMONG ASIAN AMERICAN AND LATINO IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES
• Integration or Nonintegration of Foreign Workers: Four Theories
• Transnational Ties and Immigrant Political Incorporation: The Case of Dominicans in Washington Heights, New York
• Bridging the Gap: Transnational and Ethnic Organizations in the Political Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States
• Political Incoporation Among Immigrants fiom Ten Areas of Origin: The Persistence of Source Country Efects
• Connectivity and Collectivity: Immigrant Involvement in Homeland Politics
• Citizenship and Nationality in Democratic Systems: Approaches to Defining and Acquiring Membership in the Political Community
• Immigrants and the Boundaries of Citizenship: The Institutions of Immigrants' Political Transnationalism
• The Usual Suspects: Asian Americans as Conditional Citizens
• In Pursuit of Inclusion: Citizenship Acquisition and Political Incorporation among Asian Immigrants

POL 602 - Spring 2009 - Syllabi (download PDF File)

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
• What Political Scientist Should Know about the Survey of First Year Students-2000
• The House We All Live In - A Report on Immigrant Civic Integration
• The Evolving Role of Faculty
• What's it Really All About? The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as an Authentic Practice
Advise to New Teachers: Turn it Inside Out
• Transcript: Rountable on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Political Science
Teaching College Freshman
Teaching Your First College Class
What Makes A Good Instructor
Political Science Research: From Theory to Practice by Sanford Schram
• A Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project Research Paper? The Immigrant University: Assessing the Dynamics of Race, Major and Socioeconomic Characteristics at the University of California
• Twelve Principles of Effective Teaching and Learning
• STRATEGIES FOR E-LEARNING IN UNIVERSITIES (September 2004) by Chris Curran, Dublin City University
• Making the Grade: College Teaching By Amy Shea
• University of Arizona Undergraduate Course Syllabus Policy
• Does the Wording of Syllabi Affect Student Course Assessment in Introductory Political Science Classes? John T. Ishiyama, Truman State University and Stephen Hartlaub, Frostburg State University
• The Teaching Science Professor
• STRATEGIES FOR E-LEARNING IN UNIVERSITIES
• Teaching College Students with Disabilities
• Accessibility to the PhD and Professoriate for First-Generation College Graduates: Review and Implications for Students, Faculty, and Campus Policies
• Designing and Managing MCQs: Appendix C: MCQs and Bloom's Taxonomy
• Kenneth Eble on Writing in College: Ahead of His Time
• Improving College Teaching
• The Professor's Dream: Getting Students to Talk and Read Intelligently
• Peer Reviews of Teaching
• American Government: A Comparative Approach
• Just Add Techniques
• What Ails College Teaching
• Essays onTeaching Excellence Toward the Best in the Academy
• Minority Politics Courses: Moving Beyond Controversy and Toward Active Learning

POL 210 - Fall 2008 - Syllabi (download PDF File)

Arizona Constitution (download PDF File)
Constitution of the United States (download PDF File)
210 - Presentation 1 (download PDF File)
Chapter 9 - Mass Transit Boom from Issues for Debate In American Public Policy, 9th Edition (download PDF File)
Immigration Enforcement in the United States (download PDF File)
CRS Report for Congress (download PDF File)

Census Reports 2000 Data:

American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the United States (download PDF File)
Asians in the United States (download PDF file)
Blacks in the United States (download PDF File)
Foreign-Born Population in the United States (download PDF File)
Hispanics in the United Stastes (download PDF File)
Pacific Islanders in the United States (download PDF File)
Women and Men in the United States (download PDF File)

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay (download PDF File)

Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004 (download PDF File)
Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2006 (download PDF File)

NAAS-National Report (download PDF File)

You can reach me by email at jag@U.Arizona.EDU.

I am associated with the University of Arizona.