Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas was an independent consultant for the Migration Policy Institute. His research areas include international migration in North and Central America, return migration, and Mexico’s migration policy.

He is a quantitative methods consultant at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he provides consultations on research design, spatial statistics, multiple regression methods, and on the STATA, ArcGIS, and GeoDa software programs. He is also a research assistant for grant development at ISSR and supports social scientists in finding and securing funding for research across the social sciences.

Previously, Mr. Dominguez-Villegas worked with the Mariposa Foundation in the Dominican Republic, where he conducted socioeconomic and demographic research in four rural communities and designed a model English program currently used at the Mariposa Girls Leadership Program. He also interned at the Australian Trade Commission in Madrid, providing market advice to Australian companies entering the Spanish market.

Mr. Dominguez-Villegas is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His dissertation work focuses on the effects of stigma on socioeconomic outcomes of return migrants in Mexico. He holds a B.A. in economics and geography from Middlebury College and an M.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.