I'm Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, the State university of Florida in Miami. I was born in Havana, raised in Georgia and came to Miami as a full grown professor to direct a labor research center. I'm one of the founders of the Miami School of social analysis, and have authored or co-authored seven books and dozens of articles on labor, migration, immigrant incorporation, and Cuban-American ideological profiles, particularly in the Greater Miami area. My books include Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry, (Temple University Press, 1988), Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity and Social Change, edited with Alex Stepick (University of Florida Press, 1992), Employee Participation and Labor Law in the American Workplace, with Ray Hogler (Greenwood, 1993), Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy, with Louise Lamphere and Alex Stepick, (Temple University Press, 1994. Winner of the Conrad Aresnberg Award, American Anthropological Association), Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States, with Lisandro Perez (Allyn and Bacon, 2002), This Land is Our land: Newcomers and Established Residents in Miami, with Alex Stepick, Max Castro and Marvin Dunn (University of California Press: 2003), A History of Little Havana, with Corinna J. Moebius (History Press).

I had a great year as a Fulbright Fellow in Spain and spent some time as Faculty Fellow of Notre Dame's Institute of Latino Studies as well as Director of the Florida Center for Labor Research and Studies. I've lectured enough nationally and internationally to be a million miler on Delta. My current book length manuscript and most recent articles explore the social dynamics of the Cuban-American ideology. I initiated the FIU Cuba Poll in 1991 and have conducted regular surveys of the Cuban-American political attitudes roughly on a bi-annual basis ever since. The Cuba Poll the longest running research project tracking the ideological tendencies of the Cuban-American community in South Florida. I also just finished a manuscript entitled Walking Cuba about my hikes through the country of my birth. Shopping it around as we speak.