Publications
CCRE Publications
Unpaid and Unaware: Wage Theft and Labor Rights Enforcement in San Diego City and
County
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
July 2024
Non-Compliance with Earned Sick Days Law in San Diego
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
April 2021
Time Theft: Employer Scheduling Practices and Their Impacts on San Diego County Workers
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
September 2020
Robo de Tiempo: Prácticas de los empleadores programando horarios y sus impactos en
los trabajadores del condado de San Diego
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
September 2020
The Right to Seek Asylum: Migrants’ Stories of the Struggle for Human Rights, Dignity,
Peace and Justice in the United States
ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties and SDSU Center for Community Research
and Engagement
December 2019
Publications By Topic
Kim, Minjeong. 2020. “The Emergence of a Transborder Koreatown in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region.” In Koreatowns: Exploring the Economics, Politics, and Identities of Korean Spatial Formations, edited by Jinwon Kim, Soo Mee Kim, and Stephen Cho Suh. Lexington Books.
The Right to Seek Asylum: Migrants’ Stories of the Struggle for Human Rights, Dignity,
Peace and Justice in the United States
ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties and SDSU Center for Community Research
and Engagement
December 2019
Toward a Healthy California: Why Improving Access to Medical Insurance for Unauthorized
Immigrants Matters For the Golden State
San Diego State University, the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration,
and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
December 2015
Unauthorized and Uninsured: Building Healthy Communities in California (and Fact Sheets)
San Diego State University and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
February 2015
Ensuring California’s Future by Insuring California’s Undocumented: Why Excluding
Undocumented Californians from the Affordable Care Act Hurts All of Us
San Diego State University, the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration,
and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
May 2014
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants
in Metropolitan Boston
University of California San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
and San Diego State University Department of Sociology
December 2014
What's at Stake for the State: Undocumented Californians, Immigration Reform, and
Our Future Together
The USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, and San Diego State University
May 2013
An Assessment of DNA Testing for African Refugees
Immigration Policy Center
October 2010
Esbenshade, Jill, Obzurt, Barbara. 2008. “Local Immigration Regulation: A Problematic Trend in Public Policy.” In Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy: 20, 32.
Division and Dislocation: Regulating Immigration through Local Housing Ordinances
Immigration Policy Center
Summer 2007
Unpaid and Unaware: Wage Theft and Labor Rights Enforcement in San Diego City and
County
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
July 2024
Non-Compliance with Earned Sick Days Law in San Diego
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
April 2021
Time Theft: Employer Scheduling Practices and Their Impacts on San Diego County Workers
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
September 2020
Robo de Tiempo: Prácticas de los empleadores programando horarios y sus impactos en
los trabajadores del condado de San Diego
Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE) of the San Diego State University
Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
September 2020
Confronting Wage Theft: Barriers to Claiming Unpaid Wages in San Diego
San Diego State University Department of Sociology, the Center on Policy Initiatives,
and the Employee Rights Center of San Diego
July 2017
Informe web: Enfrentando el Robo de Sueldo
San Diego State University Department of Sociology, the Center on Policy Initiatives,
and the Employee Rights Center of San Diego
July 2017
Shorted: Wage Theft, Time Theft, and Discrimination in San Diego County Restaurant
Jobs
San Diego State University Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
June 2015
Estafado: Robo de sueldo, robo de tiempo y discriminación en los restaurantes del
condado de San Diego
San Diego State University Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives
June 2015
Brown, Timothy C., Forsyth, Craig J., and Berthelot, Emily R. 2014. “The mediating effect of civic community on social growth: The importance of reciprocity.” In The Social Science Journal 51: 219–230.
Driven to Despair: A Survey of San Diego Taxi Drivers
San Diego State University and the Center on Policy Initiatives
May 2013
County Employees: Overworked and Undermined - Impacts of San Diego County Reorganization
on Family Resource Centers
San Diego State University Department of Sociology and Center on Policy Initiatives
May 2011
Choi, Jung Min, John W. Murphy, Ramsey Dahab, and Charlene Holkenbrink-Monk. 2019. “Community-Based Funding and Budgeting: Participatory Budgeting as a Transformative Act.” Pp. 39-51 in Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context, edited by S. Arxer et al. New York: Springer Publishers.
Choi, Jung Min. 2017. “Dialogue, World Entry, and Community-Based Interventions.” Pp. 55-66 in Dimensions of Community-Based Projects in Health Care, edited by S. Arxer et. New York: Springer Publishers.
Murphy, John W., Berkeley Frantz, Jung Min Choi, and Karen Callaghan. 2017. Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Healthcare and Planning. New York: Springer Publishers.
Toward a Healthy California: Why Improving Access to Medical Insurance for Unauthorized
Immigrants Matters For the Golden State
San Diego State University, the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration,
and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
December 2015
Unauthorized and Uninsured: Building Healthy Communities in California (and Fact Sheets)
San Diego State University and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
February 2015
Ensuring California’s Future by Insuring California’s Undocumented: Why Excluding
Undocumented Californians from the Affordable Care Act Hurts All of Us
San Diego State University, the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration,
and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
May 2014
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants
in Metropolitan Boston
University of California San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
and San Diego State University Department of Sociology
December 2014
(In)Visible (Im)Migrants: The Health and Socioeconomic Integration of Brazilians in
Metropolitan Boston
Brazilian Immigrant Center, San Diego State University Center for Behavioral and Community
Health Studies (BACH), and Dominican Development Center
2009
Choi, Jung Min and Auldridge, Trevor. 2018. “Politically Correct Education in the Era of Donald Trump.” In Political Correctness in the Era of Trump: Threat to Freedom or Ideological Scapegoat?
Choi, Jung Min. 2016. “Neoliberalism and Education: The Disfiguration of Students.” In Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence.
Choi, Jung Min, Vavuris, Tashina J. and Ono, Mariko. 2012. “Educating the ‘Education President’”. In Grading the 44th President: A Report Card on Barack Obama's First Term as a Progressive Leader.
Abraham, Leola A., Brown, Timothy C., and Thomas, Shaun A. 2020. “How COVID-19’s Disruption of the U.S. Correctional System Provides an Opportunity for Decarceration.” In American Journal of Criminal Justice.
Burgason, Kyle A., Drawve, Grant, Brown, Timothy C. and Eassey, John. 2017. “Close only counts in alcohol and violence: Controlling violence near late-night alcohol establishments using a routine activities approach.” In Journal of Criminal Justice 50: 62-68.
Dierenfeldt, Rick, Brown, Timothy C., and Roles, Rocio A. 2016. “Re-Considering the Structural Covariates of Gun Crime: An Examination of Direct and Moderated Effects.” In Deviant Behavior 38:2, 208-225.
Brown, Timothy C. 2011. “The Influence of Rapid Social Change on Civic Community and Perceptions of Crime and Disorder.” In International Journal of Rural Criminology 1 (1): 89-104.
Shaun A. Thomas , Kyle A. Burgason, Timothy Brown & Emily Berthelot. 2017. "Is it all about race? Intergroup threat and perceptions of racial profiling." In Criminal Justice Studies: 30:4, 401-420.
An Assessment of DNA Testing for African Refugees
Immigration Policy Center
October 2010
Esbenshade, Jill, Obzurt, Barbara. 2008. “Local Immigration Regulation: A Problematic Trend in Public Policy.” In Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy: 20, 32.
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