Research Summary:Mark Ellis is Professor of Geography. His research interests are in the areas of migration, ethnicity, and local labor markets. He has explored these topics through projects that include the migration of people with AIDS, the migration of high technology and defense workers, and variation in the labor force participation of women across US metropolitan areas. The majority of Ellis’ research, however, has integrated all three of these themes to analyze the social and economic impacts of immigration in US cities.
A substantial part Ellis’ research in the last few years has been exploring the evidence for immigration-internal migration linkages with his research collaborator, Richard Wright (formerly known as Richard Barff). Ellis’ work argues that immigration is not the primary cause of these internal migration displacements. Rather, his work shows that industrial restructuring in immigrant cities has simultaneously displaced natives and attracted immigrants. Ellis plans to follow-up on this research with the release of 2000 census microdata and expects to file grant applications with the NSF and NIH to support this project in the coming year.
Recent Publications:- Ellis, M., (Forthcoming), Vital Statistics, Professional Geographer.
- Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Parks, V., (Forthcoming), Immigrant Niches and the Intrametropolitan Spatial Division of Labour, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
- Ellis, M.; Almgren, G., (Forthcoming), Local Contexts and Second Generation Progress, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Introduction to the special issue “Local Contexts .
- Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Hudson, M., (2009), Place, Scale, and the Racial Claims Made by White-Minority Parents for their Multiracial Children in the 1990 Census, Ethnic and Racial Studies: 32, 522-547.
- Ellis, M. R., (2008), Nebraska Moments.(Brief article)(Book review), Journal of the West, 47: 4, 95(2).
- Light, I.; Ellis, M., (2008), Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles, Economic geography., 84: 3, 369.
- Ellis, M.; Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Hudson, M., (2007), The Effects of Mixed Race Households on Residential Segregation, Urban Geography, 28, 554-577.
- Ellis, M.; Wright, R.; Parks, V., (2007), Geography and the Immigrant Division of Labor, Economic Geography, 83, 255-281.
- Ellis, M., (2006), Unsettling Immigrant Geographies: US Immigration and the Politics of Scale, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 97: 1, 49-58.
- Ellis, M.; Goodwin-White, J., (2006), 1.5 Generation Internal Migration in the U.S.: Dispersion from States of Immigration?, International Migration Review, 40: 4, 899.
- Ellis, M.; Wright, R.; Parks, V., (2006), The Immigrant Household and Spatial Assimilation: Partnership, Nativity, and Neighborhood Location, Urban Geography, 27: 1, 1.
- Wright, R.; Ellis, M., (2006), Mapping others, Progress in Human Geography, 30: 3, 285-288.
- Ellis, M.; Wright, R., (2005), Assimilation and Differences Between the Settlement Patterns of Individual Immigrants and Immigrant Households, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102: 43, 15325-15330.
- Ellis, M.; Wright, R.; Parks, V., (2005), The Immigrant Household and Spatial Assimilation: Partnership, Nativity, and Neighborhood Location, Urban Geography, 27, 1-19.
- Holloway, S.; Ellis, M.; Wright, R.; Hudson, M., (2005), Partnering "Out" and Fitting In: Residential Segregation and the Neighborhood Contexts of Mixed Race Households, Population, Space and Place, 11: 299-324.
- Houston, S.; Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Holloway, S.; Hudson, M., (2005), Places of possibility: where mixed-race partners meet, Progress in Human Geography, 29, 700-717.
- Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Parks, V., (2005), Re-Placing Whiteness in Spatial Assimilation Research, City & Community, 4, 111-136.
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Ph.D. 1988, Indiana University. Gender, race and employment, immigration, residential segregation.
