 Dr. Richard Jones, is Discipline Coordinator and Professor of Geography in the Department of Political Science and Geography at UTSA. His teaching expertise is in human geography, economic and development geography, spatial analysis, Mexico, and Texas. His research has focused on international migration for all of his professional career, encompassing shifting geographic patterns of migration and return migration, impacts of migration and remittances on villages of origin, and immigrant adjustment in areas of destination. Mexican and Bolivian emigration as well as Irish return migration have occupied his research agenda over the past decade. His edited book, Immigrants outside Megalopolis: Ethnic Transformation in the Heartland, was published by Lexington Books in March of 2008. He produced two previous books, Patterns of Undocumented Migration (Rowman and Allanheld 1984), and Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico (University of Arizona Press 1995). Recent articles on the causes and impacts of migration in Mexico, Ireland, and Bolivia have appeared in The Professional Geographer, Growth and Change, Economic Geography, Irish Geography, Latin American Politics and Society, Global Networks, Population Space and Place, and International Migration. Articles on residential patterns of ancestry groups in San Antonio have appeared in Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, and the Social Science Journal.
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