Gerson Rosales

Gerson Rosales is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area of California. His family arrived in the United States as part of the mass migration of Central Americans during the late 1970s and 1980s. His research specializes in migration, racial formation, Latine identity, refugee politics, and transnational social movements in the United States and Central America. He is working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation "Yo canto a mi pueblo: Salvadoran Migration, Activism, and Diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1900-1992."  The manuscript is a transnational history of the Bay Area's Salvadoran community, beginning with coffee elites' migration during the early twentieth century and ending with the mass movement of Salvadorans and other Central Americans during the 1980s.