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Chenoa Flippen

Flippen

Professor of Sociology

Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity Race and Immigration (CSERI)

Undergraduate Chair of Sociology

chenoa@sas.upenn.edu215-898-5534

231 McNeil

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1999

My research addresses the connection between racial and ethnic inequality and contextual forces at the neighborhood, metropolitan, and national level. Most of my work falls into three broad categories: 1) racial and ethnic inequality in the United States 2) life-course and aging, particularly as it relates to minority well-being and 3) Hispanic immigrant adaptation, especially in new areas of destination across the American South. Throughout my research I combine quantitative and qualitative methods, drawing upon diverse sources of existing data as well as collecting original survey and ethnographic data. I have applied these methods to diverse topics such as the relationship between housing appreciation and neighborhood composition, the relationship between residential segregation and minority homeownership, pathways to retirement for black and Hispanic elders, and the impact of migration on men’s HIV risk behaviors and women’s interpersonal power. I am currently conducting the project “Vivir Racionado (Living on Rations): A Study of the Economic Survival Strategies of Migrant Latinos.” This project examines the labor market experiences of undocumented Hispanic migrants, the role of income pooling in surviving low wage work, and forms of informal savings groups such as “la tanda.” With this research I hope to provide greater understanding of both the financial position of migrant Hispanics and the process and antecedents of wealth accumulation for this group, shedding light on the main impediments to Hispanic asset accumulation through the inclusion of factors not commonly captured in large-scale surveys of wealth inequality.

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  • EINet Policy Forum: Chenoa Flippen on Latino Immigrants and Employment Instability

  • OPR Seminar Series: Chenoa Flippen on Intersectionality at Work and the Determinants of Labor Supply Among Immigrant Hispanic Women

  • CCPR Seminar: Emilio A. Parrado and Chenoa Flippen on the Gendered Process of Mexican Migration to the U.S.

  • The Labor Force Trajectories of Immigrant Women: Intersecting Personal Characteristics and Migration Dynamics
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September 8, 2024

Congratulations to 2024-2025 Quartet Pilot Awardees

March 25, 2024

Chenoa Flippen is featured for the Immigration Policy Symposium, Penn Today

March 19, 2021

Chenoa Flipeen receives Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring

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  • Transnational aging: The link between migration and aging in Mexico

  • Transnational elder care and the financial security of low income Mexican immigrants in the USA: A case study of Philadelphia, PA

  • Relative Social Position and U.S. Internal Migration: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity

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The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was founded in 1962 and stands as an international leader in research and training on the dynamic structure, organization, and health and well-being of human populations. The services that PSC provides have been funded by infrastructure grants awarded by the Population Dynamics Branch at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) since 1978. The center and its associates are also supported by research grants and contracts awarded by federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and by private foundations. Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences is the administrative home of the PSC and provides generous dedicated support to the center.

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