Faculty Affiliate Mark Ellis is a Professor of Geography at the University of Washington who studies issues of migration, ethnicity, and local labor markets. His most recent poverty-related research includes a study of residential segregation and spatial divisions of labor among immigrants and an investigation of the dynamics of industrial, occupational and regional employment concentrations for native and immigrant populations.

Major Research Projects:

• "Marrying Out" and Fitting In: Interracial Households, Residential Segregation and the Identity of Multiracial Children.
• The Mixed-Race Household in Residential Space: Neighborhood Context, Segregation, and Multiracial identities, 1990-2000.
• Residential Segregation and the Spatial Division of Immigrant Labor in Los Angeles.

Sample Publications:

• Ellis, M., Holloway, S. R., Wright, R., and M. East. 2007. "The Effects of Mixed-Race Households in Residential Segregation." Urban Geography 28(6): 554-577.
• Ellis, M.; Wright, R.; Parks, V. 2007. "Geography and the Immigrant Division of Labor." Economic Geography  83(3): 255-282.
• Ellis, Mark, Wright, Richard, and Virginia Parks.  2006. "The Immigrant Household and Spatial Assimilation: Partnership, Nativity, and Neighborhood Location." Urban Geography 27(1): 1-19.

Contact Information:

Mark Ellis
Email: ellism@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/ellism
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