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Sang Eun Lee
Mailing Address: Office: (510) 642-2332
164 Mulford Hall #3114, Home: (510) 393-2004
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 Email:
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Education
§ Ph.D, Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, Division of Society and Environment, University of California, Berkeley. (2009)
Development, Despair, and Farm Work: South-south migration in Costa Rica’s export agriculture
The dissertation uses the case of Nicaraguan migration into Costa Rica’s agricultural export sector to examine the dynamics of international migration between two countries in the global south. At the broadest level, the research explores the intersection of international development and international migration. Challenging the existing theoretical frameworks born out of international migration from the global south to the global north, this ethnography of political economy illuminates the dynamics of south to south migration privileging the experience of migrant workers and their families. Findings show the significance of liberalizing agricultural polices on international migration to create pull and push factors for migration, the importance of weak social ties in migrant mobility, and the insignificance of remittances on families back home.
Jeff Romm (Chair) - Environmental Science Policy and Management
Claudia Carr- Environmental Science Policy and Management
Laura Enríquez-Sociology
Khatharya Um-Ethnic Studies
Qualifying Examination Fields: International Migration Theories and Practices; Sociology of Agriculture (focus on Latin America); Economic Globalization and the role of the State; and International Rural Development Policy
§ University of Oregon, Resource Assistance for Rural Environments Program in the Department of City and Regional Planning, Community and economic development training (2001-2002)
§ Spanish Language Training, ACTFL rating: Advanced, Peace Corps, Dominican Republic. (2001)
§ Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development Training, Entrena S.A. Training Center, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (1998)
§ B.A. Anthropology, double minor: Biology and Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior. Rutgers College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ. (1998)
Professional Experience
§ Director, Environmental Leadership Pathway, College of Natural Resources, University of California Berkeley (2009-Present)
¨ Administer day-to-day functions of the program
¨ Event organization and planning
¨ Curriculum development for two lower-division undergraduate courses
¨ Grant reporting
¨ Student mentoring
§ Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
¨ Research and preparation of manuscripts for publication on international migration and agricultural development
§ Special Projects Coordinator, City of Cascade Locks and Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Volunteer, University of Oregon and AmeriCorps VISTA, Cascade Locks, OR. (2001-2001)
¨ Developed and authored a comprehensive five-year strategic plan for the City of Cascade Locks for economic development in collaboration with the United States Department of Justice, Executive Office of Weed and Seed.
¨ Researched, authored, received, and managed grants for the City of Cascade Locks from: Oregon Economic and Community Development Department; United States Forest Service; Oregon Employment Department; Oregon Investment Board; and Bonneville Power Administration. (2001-2002)
§ Community Sustainable Agriculture Extensionist, U.S. Peace Corps, Dominican Republic. (1998-2001)
¨ Peace Corps Volunteer Trainer in the agriculture program in cultural adaptation and community based technical training. (2000)
¨ Research and development of a vermiculture project, and author of a vermiculture production manual and pamphlet for Peace Corps, Dominican Republic. (2000)
¨ Facilitated a series of workshops on soil conservation and the recuperation of depleted soils in eleven different rural subsistence agriculture communities in collaboration with governmental and non-governmental agencies. (2000-2001)
¨ Peace Corps Volunteer Coordinator (2000-2001)
Publications
§ “Unpaking the Packing Plant: Nicaraguan migrant workers in Costa Rica’s Export Agriculture sector” in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society (forthcoming)
§ “The Ties Made in the Harvest: Nicaraguan Migrant Farm Workers in Costa Rica’s Agricultural Exports” in The Journal of Agrarian Change (forthcoming)
§ “The Cost of Certified Food: Just pineapple production in Costa Rica” (in review)
§ “In and Out of Nicaragua: Displacement and migration of agrarian people in Nicaragua’s Countryside” in an edited book by Khalid Koser (title not yet detemined), Berghahn press (forthcoming).
§ “Women migrants and nontraditional agricultural exports: Nicaraguan women workers in Costa Rican packing plants” in The Broken Myth: Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica, ed. Carlos Sandoval, Lexington Press. (forthcoming)
§ “Trabajadoras Inmigrantes y Exportaciones Agrícolas No Tradicionales: Trabajadoras Nicaragüenses en Plantas Empacadoras en Costa Rica” in El Mito Roto: Inmigración y emigración en Costa Rica, ed. Carlos Sandoval, University of Costa Rica, San Jose Costa Rica 2007.
§ Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Spring 2004, “Buscando Vida: Haitian Migration to the Dominican Republic”
Teaching Experience
§ Instructor, San Quentin State Penitentiary (2009)
¨ Members of Modern Society – a course on financial literacy and reentry
§ Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley. (2007)
¨ Professional Preparation: Learning as a Life Long Experience, Fall 2007
§ A class on preparing graduate students to teach undergraduates at Berkeley
§ Instructor, University of California, Berkeley (2007)
¨ McNair Scholars Program, Academic Achievement Programs
§ Instructor, Patten University, Prison University Program (2006-present)
¨ Math 50 (Elementary Math)
§ A self paced class for prisoners at San Quentin State Penitentiary who in the process of earning an Associate’s degree at Patten University through the Prison University Program
§ Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley. (2002-2005)
¨ Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, Spring 2002 and 2003
¨ The Southern Border, Fall 2002
¨ Natural Resources and Culture, Fall 2004
¨ Natural Resources and Population, Spring 2005
¨ The Economics of Race, Agriculture and Environment, Fall 2008
Research Experience
§ Dissertation Field Research (July 2005-January 2007): Costa Rica and Nicaragua- examined the relationship between international development and migration between the global south
¨ Conducted over 200 in-depth interviews in Costa Rica and Nicaragua with migrant workers, government and non-government representatives, and Costa Rican producers
¨ Administered 130 community surveys in 8 communities in Nicaragua
¨ Participant observation working on pineapple and cassava farms and packing plants in Costa Rica
§ Preliminary Dissertation Field Research (June 2004-August 2005): Costa Rica
¨ Interviews with researchers, government representatives in Costa Rica
¨ Visits to various export agriculture regions in Costa Rica
§ Day-laborer research (September 2003-November 2003): San Francisco, CA- examined the relationship between structural adjustment and international labor migration
¨ Conducted 12 interviews with day laborers in San Francisco
¨ Grant writer for La Raza Centro Legal, a non-profit dedicated to helping day-laborers in San Francisco
§ Human Rights Research (June 2003-August 2003): Dominican Republic and Haiti-examined the implications of the privatization of the sugar estates in the Dominican Republic for Haitian sugar workers
¨ Conducted 60 in-depth interviews with Haitian migrant sugar workers in the Dominican Republic
¨ Conducted 20 interviews with families of migrants and returned migrants in Haiti
¨ Worked with Movimiento de Trabajadores Haitianos in developing an outreach program for a mobile clinic and a burial program
¨ Conducted interviews with organizations working to protect the rights of Haitian workers
¨ Participated in a bi-national forum working on economic development along the Haiti/Dominican Republic border
§ Literature Research: Berkeley
¨ Literature review of diaspora communities and transnationalism (May 2004)
¨ Literature review of post conflict states and nation building (June 2007)
Honors and Awards
§ Fulbright Hays-DDRA Fellowship (2006-2007) Research conducted in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
§ Frank Schwabacher Memorial Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. (2007)
§ Frank Myers Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. (2007)
§ Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention. (2007)
§ University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship, Departmental Nominee. (2007)
§ Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. (2007)
§ University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor’s Mentorship Fellowship (2005)
§ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley. (2003-2004)
§ Human Rights Center Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. (2003)
§ Center for Latin American Studies Tinker Grant, University of California, Berkeley. (2003)
§ National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention. (2003)
Relevant Coursework
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§ Environmental Politics
§ Labor and the Global Economy
§ International Development
§ Development Theory and Practices
§ Development Administration
§ Sociology of Agriculture
§ Interview Methods
§ Survey of Methods in Political Science
§ Readings in Economic Geography
§ Agroecology
§ Forced Migration
§ From Graduate Student to Faculty
§ Editing, Academic Writing and Academic Publishing
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Conference Presentations
§ International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (Cairo, Eygpt), January 2008 (upcoming)
-Invited Paper Presentation: “In and Out of Nicaragua: Displacement and migration of agrarian people in Nicaragua’s countryside”
-Invited Paper Presentation: “Considering Remittances from the Global South: The Case of Nicaraguan migrant remittances from Costa Rica”
§ Association of American Geographers (San Francisco, CA), April 2007
-Panel Discussant: Land Politics: Race, Class, and Gender In the Field
-Paper Presentation: Migrant Women in the Global South: Nicaraguan women working in the nontraditional agricultural export industry in Costa Rica
-Panel Chair: “On and off farm work in Latin America”
§ Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Graduate Symposium (Berkeley, CA), April 2007
-Invited Paper Presentation: Significance of International Certification Norms on Migrant Farm Labor: The case of Nicaraguan farm workers in Costa Rica
§ International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (Sao Paulo, Brazil), January 2005
-Paper Presentation: “Haitian Political and Economic Refugees in the Dominican Republic”
-Chair and Discussant: Panel “Human Trafficking”
§ Summer Human Rights Fellows Conference (Berkeley, CA), November 2003
-Presentation: Privatization of Sugar Plantations and the wellbeing of Haitian Migrants
Guest Lectures
§ “The Intended and Unintended consequences of Reforestation in the Highlands of the Dominican Republic” in Environmental Policy and Natural Resources (Spring 2003)
§ “The Development of Agriculture, from then to now” in Natural Resources and Culture (Spring 2005)
§ “Agricultural Industrialization” in Introduction to Environmental Studies at San Francisco State University (Fall 2007)
§ “The development of Agriculture” in Natural Resources and Culture at University of California Extension (Fall 2007)
§ “Race, Documentation, and Market Segmentation in Agricultural Labor” in The Economics of Race, Environment, and Agriculture (Fall 2008)
Mentoring Undergraduates
§ McNair Scholars Program, Academic Achievement, University of California, Berkeley (2007): The McNair Scholars program is a federal program that is designed to provide research experience for under represented students interested in graduate school
¨ Advised six McNair Scholars on formulating research projects, developing methods, field research, data analysis and final paper write up.
¨ Held weekly classes on all aspects of research including conference presentations
¨ Moderator for the McNair Symposium
§ Associated Students of the University of California undergraduate mentor (2007)
¨ Individual interaction with a undergraduate to discuss classes, internships, and provide feedback on writing
§ College of Natural Resources undergraduate diversity student mentor (2007)
¨ Individual interaction with an under represented undergraduate in the College of Natural Resources to discuss classes, summer internship possibilities, look over class work, and discuss issues and challenges specific to under represented students in the academy
Academic Service
§ Graduate Diversity Committee (2006-2007)
§ Department Faculty Lecture Series Organizer (2007)
§ In-coming Student Buddy Program (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007)
§ Department Admissions Committee-Student Representative (2004)
§ Departmental Diversity Committee- Student Representative (2002-2004)
§ Diversity Recruitment Joint Initiative with the Department of City and Regional Planning (2003, 2004)
§ Graduate Diversity Student Orientation (2003)
Languages
§ Spanish: Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing
§ Korean: Proficient in speaking, reading, and writing
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