Matthew R Sanderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 289865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew R Sanderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanderson |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERSON M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5946-6556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Evolving Political Economy of Migration Systems
In a dynamic global context of rising ethno-nationalism, economic neo-mercantilism, and climate change, migration remains a defining feature of global political economy. As the analytical boundaries between economic, political, and environmental drivers break down, migration has increasingly been conceptualized as a complex, interconnected system. Moving beyond early “push-pull” hypotheses that reduced human mobility to simplistic individual calc…
Imprinted in the mind and on the land: Identity and farming practices among conventional and regenerative farmers in Kansas
Regenerative agriculture (RA) is a soil-centric, systems-based approach to farming that has been shown to increase biodiversity, sequester carbon, increase water infiltration rates, and improve resiliency to environmental change. However, while there is growing evidence supporting the potential of RA as a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture approaches, our understanding of the cultural dimensions of RA is more limited. Prior resea…
A synthesis of factors influencing sustainable agriculture practices adoption among rural farmers: A scoping review
Ad Astra per aquam (to the stars, through water): The Kansas Aqueduct Project as a sociotechnical imaginary in the Anthropocene
Groundwater supplies are dwindling worldwide as the Anthropocene deepens and human-water systems become more tightly coupled. Key actors are searching for ways to augment water supplies, including by large-scale transport. In this context, the role of human culture - values, beliefs, norms, symbols, language - is becoming even more important as a driver of socio-ecological change. We explore the role of culture in coupled, human-water systems thr…
Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation
Channeling and Wages Among New US Immigrants from Mexico, India, and the Philippines
National — and local — conversations about immigration are often centered on immigrants’ integration into the US society. One factor that shapes immigrants’ integration is their pre-migration work experience, skills, and training and a series of studies have used “channeling” as a concept to identify immigrants who have worked in the same occupation and/or industry in the destination labor market as they had in the origin labor market, prior to m…
Good for the soil, but good for the farmer? Addiction and recovery in transitions to regenerative agriculture
An Inventory and Assessment of Sample Sources for Survey Research with Agricultural Producers in the U.S
Researchers need probability samples to collect representative survey data about the behaviors and attitudes of agricultural producers they study in relation to the natural resources that they manage, yet obtaining accurate and complete sampling frames is challenging. We extract data from a publication database to identify the most commonly used sampling frame sources in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., finding that governme…
Water, culture, and adaptation in the High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer region
Public narrative and sustained civic engagement: The Wichita County Water Conservation Area in Rural Kansas
Sustained civic engagement is important to the success of social movements, which contribute to community development outcomes. Our qualitative case study of the Wichita County Water Conservation Area (WCA) suggests that sustained civic engagement among producers in Western Kansas can be understood as a positive feedback loop whereby organizers use public narrative to increase social, cultural, and political capitals in their community. The Wichi…
Declining and splitting: Opposition to immigration in the United States, 1996–2018
Irrigated agriculture and human development: A county-level analysis 1980–2010
Here we are: Agriculture and Human Values in the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic
International Migration and Development: A Dyadic Analysis of the Americas, 1970–2010
This paper assesses the migration-development nexus from a new, relational perspective, providing a closer test of existing theories of cross-national dynamics, including migration and development. Using bilateral data, we assess the relationship between migration (im)balances and wage differentials between pairs of countries in the Americas, from 1970 to 2010. The analysis reveals a positive feedback between international migration and cross-nat…
Post Covid 19 and food pathways to sustainable transformation
Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems
Brelsford, C., M. Dumas, E. Schlager, B. J. Dermody, M. Aiuvalasit, M. R. Allen-Dumas, J. Beecher, U. Bhatia, P. D'Odorico, M. Garcia, P. Gober, D. Groenfeldt, S. Lansing, K. Madani, L. Méndez-Barrientos, E. Mondino, M. F. Müller, F. C. O'Donnell, P. M. Owuor, J. Rising, M. R. Sanderson, F. A. A. Souza, and S. C. Zipper. 2020. Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems. Ecology and Society 25(2):23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-…
A Population-Based Study of Coupling and Physical Activity by Sexual Orientation for Men
Research has suggested that men in relationships are more physically active than men who are single. This study provides a weighted analysis of physical activity by coupling status for men of different sexual orientations. Aggregated data from the United States 2013-2014 National Health Interview Survey were used to conduct multivariate logistic regression analyses. Compared to straight men (n = 29,926), gay men (n = 623) were less likely to be i…
Sociohydrology: Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable future for all mankind. Meeting the SDGs for water requires an integrated approach to managing and allocating water resources, by involving all actors and stakeholders, and considering how water resources link different sectors of society. To date, water management practice is domina…
Race to the Bottom (of the Well): Groundwater in an Agricultural Production Treadmill
Groundwater from the Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer supports one of the most productive agriculture regions in the world. Yet, despite nearly 40 years of policies designed to conserve and sustain this vital resource, the Aquifer continues to be depleted at an unsustainable rate. We integrate propositions from treadmill of production theory and ecological modernization theory to develop a structural model, focusing especially on the role of technolo…
Everything flows…unevenly: Social stratification in coupled socio-ecological systems
The Sociology of Development Handbook
Different Country, Same Work: The Income Advantage of Industrial Channeling Among Mexican Immigrants
This study builds on recent work investigating the process of migration channeling between analogous sectors of the Mexican and U.S. labor markets. In this study, the authors take up the question of whether channeling between Mexico and the United States promotes immigrants' economic integration. Drawing on previous research on channeling, and using insights from human capital theory, the authors test the hypothesis that immigrants who are able t…
To the Richest Go the Spoils? Immigration, Development, and the North-South Divide, 1970–2005
This paper empirically assesses, for the first time, the relationship between immigration and national economic development in both the global North and the global South. A series of panel models demonstrate that immigration exacerbates North-South inequalities through differential effects on average per capita incomes in the global North and global South. Immigration has positive effects on average incomes in both the North and the South, but th…
Migration and Development in the Twenty-First Century
Research Article| June 01 2016 Migration and Development in the Twenty-First Century Matthew R. Sanderson Matthew R. Sanderson Kansas State University, Manhattan, Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sociology of Development (2016) 2 (2): 71–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2016.2.2.71 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon …
Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration
Systematic research on world cities neglects immigration, despite its significance to world city formation. In this article, we test a foundational, but untested, premise of world cities research: that global centrality in the world urban system is associated with larger, more diverse immigrant populations. Using an international sample of cities, we conduct multivariate regressions of Benton-Short et al.’s Urban Immigrant Index on the Globalizat…
Post Covid 19 and food pathways to sustainable transformation
Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration
Systematic research on world cities neglects immigration, despite its significance to world city formation. In this article, we test a foundational, but untested, premise of world cities research: that global centrality in the world urban system is associated with larger, more diverse immigrant populations. Using an international sample of cities, we conduct multivariate regressions of Benton-Short et al.’s Urban Immigrant Index on the Globalizat…
Globalization, Development and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2000
It is widely argued that globalization and economic development are associated with international migration. However, these relationships have not been tested empirically. We use a cross-national empirical analysis to assess the impact of global and national factors on international migration from less-developed countries. An interdisciplinary analytical framework is developed. We then use several modeling techniques to analyze panel data on a se…
Occupational Channels for Mexican Migration: New Destination Formation in a Binational Context
In the 1990s, Mexican immigration dispersed spatially, leading to the emergence of many 'new destinations,' in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Previous studies constrain the scope of the analysis to the United States, limiting our understanding of how new destinations are formed. We place new destination formation into a binational context and emphasize the role of supply-side immigration dynamics. We argue that occupations in Mexico …
Foreign Direct Investment and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1985—2000
This study explores the impact of macro-level processes of the global economy on international migration. The authors utilize a cross-national panel regression analysis to examine the effect of foreign direct investment on the level of emigration from 25 less-developed countries between 1985 and 2000. The findings indicate that the stock of foreign direct investment increases net emigration over time, while trade integration lessens these movemen…
Testing a Global City Hypothesis: An Assessment of Polarization across US Cities
Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A “world city” theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities’ importance in a global network of cities to the degree of internal polarization within these cities. The research reported here locates 57 large US cities within this world city hierarchy and then empirically examines the…
International Migration and Human Development in Destination Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2005
Structural impediments to sustainable groundwater management in the High Plains Aquifer of western Kansas
Networks of capital, networks for migration: Political-economic integration and the changing geography of Mexico-US migration
While economic globalization has altered the geography of international migration and introduced an array of new sources and destinations, our understanding of the specific mechanisms that link economic globalization to migration remains limited. In this article, I attempt to extend previous research by undertaking an empirical case study of Mexican migration to the USA. Using a unique dataset, I construct multivariate models to test whether, in …
Race to the Bottom (of the Well): Groundwater in an Agricultural Production Treadmill
Groundwater from the Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer supports one of the most productive agriculture regions in the world. Yet, despite nearly 40 years of policies designed to conserve and sustain this vital resource, the Aquifer continues to be depleted at an unsustainable rate. We integrate propositions from treadmill of production theory and ecological modernization theory to develop a structural model, focusing especially on the role of technolo…
Does Immigration Promote Long-Term Economic Development? A Global and Regional Cross-National Analysis, 1965-2005
Immigration is perceived as both boon and bane in host countries. Yet, whether immigration promotes, or undermines, economic development remains an empirical question. Using cross-national data for up to 122 countries, this paper tests whether cumulative immigration flows raise aggregate living standards in the long term. The results strongly support the hypothesis. Immigration, however, is not uniformly beneficial for all countries. A sub-analys…
Good for the soil, but good for the farmer? Addiction and recovery in transitions to regenerative agriculture
Declining and splitting: Opposition to immigration in the United States, 1996–2018
Different Country, Same Work: The Income Advantage of Industrial Channeling Among Mexican Immigrants
This study builds on recent work investigating the process of migration channeling between analogous sectors of the Mexican and U.S. labor markets. In this study, the authors take up the question of whether channeling between Mexico and the United States promotes immigrants' economic integration. Drawing on previous research on channeling, and using insights from human capital theory, the authors test the hypothesis that immigrants who are able t…
Free trade, food-processing, and migration: An analysis of Mexican immigration in the U.S. Great Plains Region
This paper empirically identifies the factors driving Mexican immigration into the U.S. Great Plains region, focusing especially on the role of work in the Mexican and U.S. food-processing sectors, which in the context of NAFTA-induced foreign direct investments, opens up paths for migration along occupational lines into the U.S. from Mexico. Using a unique dataset on Mexican migration, the study addresses three related questions in a series of m…
Public narrative and sustained civic engagement: The Wichita County Water Conservation Area in Rural Kansas
Sustained civic engagement is important to the success of social movements, which contribute to community development outcomes. Our qualitative case study of the Wichita County Water Conservation Area (WCA) suggests that sustained civic engagement among producers in Western Kansas can be understood as a positive feedback loop whereby organizers use public narrative to increase social, cultural, and political capitals in their community. The Wichi…
A Population-Based Study of Coupling and Physical Activity by Sexual Orientation for Men
Research has suggested that men in relationships are more physically active than men who are single. This study provides a weighted analysis of physical activity by coupling status for men of different sexual orientations. Aggregated data from the United States 2013-2014 National Health Interview Survey were used to conduct multivariate logistic regression analyses. Compared to straight men (n = 29,926), gay men (n = 623) were less likely to be i…
The Sociology of Development Handbook
Ukrainian Labour Migration in the Czech Republic: Brain-Drain and the Existence of Structural Channels
This paper aims at finding out, whether the previous experience in Ukrainian construction sector increases the probability of doing the same job in the Czech construction sector. We assume that the integration of Czech and Ukrainian construction sectors led to the creation of structural channels directing Ukrainian labour migrants to the Czech Republic along the migration lines and facilitating the process of labour migration between these two co…
Does immigration have a Matthew Effect? A cross-national analysis of international migration and international income inequality, 1960-2005
Migration in a Globalised World: New Research Issues and Prospects
The Globalization of Economic Production and International Migration: An Empirical Analysis of Undocumented Mexican Migration to the United States
This article empirically investigates the relationship between the globalization of economic production and international migration by focusing on the case of Mexico. We describe undocumented Mexican migration to the US in the context of global economic restructuring and review previous studies. We then apply a multilevel modeling technique to retrospective data gathered by the Mexican Migration Project in order to test whether the density of man…
Prince Albert and the Development of Education in England and Germany in the Nineteenth Century
1University of East Anglia Prince Albert and the Development of Education in England and Germany in the Nineteenth Century FranzBosbachWilliamFilmer‐SankeyHermannHieryThomasBrockman MunichK.G. Saur 2000256
Foreign Direct Investment and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1985—2000
This study explores the impact of macro-level processes of the global economy on international migration. The authors utilize a cross-national panel regression analysis to examine the effect of foreign direct investment on the level of emigration from 25 less-developed countries between 1985 and 2000. The findings indicate that the stock of foreign direct investment increases net emigration over time, while trade integration lessens these movemen…
Reconsidering the Study of International Migration: A Way Forward for Macrostructural Migration Research”
The “globalization of migration” has raised new and important questions about the macrostructural or global determinants of international population movements ( Castles and Miller, 2003 ). Yet there remains a dearth of cross‐national, empirical research in this area ( Portes, 1997 ). In one of the earliest attempts to empirically identify macrostructural determinants of migration, Amankwaa makes an important contribution to the literature (1995).…
The Globalization of Economic Production and International Migration: An Empirical Analysis of Undocumented Mexican Migration to the United States
This article empirically investigates the relationship between the globalization of economic production and international migration by focusing on the case of Mexico. We describe undocumented Mexican migration to the US in the context of global economic restructuring and review previous studies. We then apply a multilevel modeling technique to retrospective data gathered by the Mexican Migration Project in order to test whether the density of man…
Globalization, Development and International Migration: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2000
It is widely argued that globalization and economic development are associated with international migration. However, these relationships have not been tested empirically. We use a cross-national empirical analysis to assess the impact of global and national factors on international migration from less-developed countries. An interdisciplinary analytical framework is developed. We then use several modeling techniques to analyze panel data on a se…
International Migration and Human Development in Destination Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2005
Migration in a Globalised World: New Research Issues and Prospects
Occupational Channels for Mexican Migration: New Destination Formation in a Binational Context
In the 1990s, Mexican immigration dispersed spatially, leading to the emergence of many 'new destinations,' in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Previous studies constrain the scope of the analysis to the United States, limiting our understanding of how new destinations are formed. We place new destination formation into a binational context and emphasize the role of supply-side immigration dynamics. We argue that occupations in Mexico …
Testing a Global City Hypothesis: An Assessment of Polarization across US Cities
Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A “world city” theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities’ importance in a global network of cities to the degree of internal polarization within these cities. The research reported here locates 57 large US cities within this world city hierarchy and then empirically examines the…
Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
Free trade, food-processing, and migration: An analysis of Mexican immigration in the U.S. Great Plains Region
This paper empirically identifies the factors driving Mexican immigration into the U.S. Great Plains region, focusing especially on the role of work in the Mexican and U.S. food-processing sectors, which in the context of NAFTA-induced foreign direct investments, opens up paths for migration along occupational lines into the U.S. from Mexico. Using a unique dataset on Mexican migration, the study addresses three related questions in a series of m…
Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to Nafta
Does Immigration Promote Long-Term Economic Development? A Global and Regional Cross-National Analysis, 1965-2005
Immigration is perceived as both boon and bane in host countries. Yet, whether immigration promotes, or undermines, economic development remains an empirical question. Using cross-national data for up to 122 countries, this paper tests whether cumulative immigration flows raise aggregate living standards in the long term. The results strongly support the hypothesis. Immigration, however, is not uniformly beneficial for all countries. A sub-analys…
Does immigration have a Matthew Effect? A cross-national analysis of international migration and international income inequality, 1960-2005
From desert to breadbasket…to desert again? A metabolic rift in the High Plains Aquifer
The High Plains region of the U.S. is one of the most important agricultural regions in the world. Much agricultural production in this semi-arid region, however, depends on the consumption of nonrenewable groundwater from the High Plains Aquifer. Although the problem has drawn significant attention from policymakers and citizens for over forty years, depletion of the Aquifer has worsened. Why does depletion persist despite widespread and ongoing…
Structural impediments to sustainable groundwater management in the High Plains Aquifer of western Kansas
Ukrainian Labour Migration in the Czech Republic: Brain-Drain and the Existence of Structural Channels
This paper aims at finding out, whether the previous experience in Ukrainian construction sector increases the probability of doing the same job in the Czech construction sector. We assume that the integration of Czech and Ukrainian construction sectors led to the creation of structural channels directing Ukrainian labour migrants to the Czech Republic along the migration lines and facilitating the process of labour migration between these two co…
Networks of capital, networks for migration: Political-economic integration and the changing geography of Mexico-US migration
While economic globalization has altered the geography of international migration and introduced an array of new sources and destinations, our understanding of the specific mechanisms that link economic globalization to migration remains limited. In this article, I attempt to extend previous research by undertaking an empirical case study of Mexican migration to the USA. Using a unique dataset, I construct multivariate models to test whether, in …
Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration
Systematic research on world cities neglects immigration, despite its significance to world city formation. In this article, we test a foundational, but untested, premise of world cities research: that global centrality in the world urban system is associated with larger, more diverse immigrant populations. Using an international sample of cities, we conduct multivariate regressions of Benton-Short et al.’s Urban Immigrant Index on the Globalizat…
To the Richest Go the Spoils? Immigration, Development, and the North-South Divide, 1970–2005
This paper empirically assesses, for the first time, the relationship between immigration and national economic development in both the global North and the global South. A series of panel models demonstrate that immigration exacerbates North-South inequalities through differential effects on average per capita incomes in the global North and global South. Immigration has positive effects on average incomes in both the North and the South, but th…
Migration and Development in the Twenty-First Century
Research Article| June 01 2016 Migration and Development in the Twenty-First Century Matthew R. Sanderson Matthew R. Sanderson Kansas State University, Manhattan, Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sociology of Development (2016) 2 (2): 71–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2016.2.2.71 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon …
Different Country, Same Work: The Income Advantage of Industrial Channeling Among Mexican Immigrants
This study builds on recent work investigating the process of migration channeling between analogous sectors of the Mexican and U.S. labor markets. In this study, the authors take up the question of whether channeling between Mexico and the United States promotes immigrants' economic integration. Drawing on previous research on channeling, and using insights from human capital theory, the authors test the hypothesis that immigrants who are able t…
Everything flows…unevenly: Social stratification in coupled socio-ecological systems
The Sociology of Development Handbook
Sociohydrology: Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable future for all mankind. Meeting the SDGs for water requires an integrated approach to managing and allocating water resources, by involving all actors and stakeholders, and considering how water resources link different sectors of society. To date, water management practice is domina…
Economics (28 works) · Geography (24 works) · Political science (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (19 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 works)