Pablo Mendez

Post-doctoral fellow

Department of Geography,

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC

Global Suburbanisms Project,

The City Institute at York University (CITY)

Toronto, ON

Research interests:

Global restructuring, housing finance and metropolitan residential markets; transnational migration and geographies of housing; suburbanisms and global processes of suburbanization or metropolitan decentralization; informality and urban land use.

education:

Ph.D. , M.A. (Geography), University of British Columbia

B.B.A. (Hnrs.), Simon Fraser University

Academic positions:

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia (with funding from the Global Suburbanisms project at the City Institute at York University)

Sessional Instructor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia (Courses taught: Geog 457, The Social Geography of World Cities, Winter 2011; Geog 374, Introduction to Statistics in Human Geography, Winter 2012)

Research Assistant (2005-2009) and Teaching Assistant (2005-2006), Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

publications:

Moos, M. and P. Mendez (Forthcoming) "Suburbanization and the remaking of metropolitan Canada." In Keil, R. (ed.) Suburban Constellations: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the Twenty-First Century. Berlin: Jovis Verlag GmbH.

Wyly, E., D. Martin, P. Mendez, S. Holloway (2012) "Transnational Tense: Immigration and Inequality in American Housing Markets." In Gideon Bolt, A. Sule Özüekren, and Deborah Phillips (eds.) Linking Integration and Residential Segregation. Oxford: Routledge. (Originally published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 36(2): 187-208.)

Mendez, P. (2011) Ambiguity at home: Unauthorized geographies of housing in Vancouver. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.

Mendez, P. (2011) "Pitting morality against the harms of market freedom." Review of The moral underground: How ordinary Americans subvert an unfair economy. By Lisa Dodson. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 15(1): 123-125. 3

Mendez, P. (2011) Book review: Foreclosing the Dream: How America's Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs. By William Lucy. Journal of Urban Affairs 33(3).

Mendez, P. (2010) Book review: Practising public scholarship: experiences and possibilities beyond the academy. Edited by Katharyne Mitchell. Progress in Human Geography 34: 281-282.

Mendez, P. (2009) "Age-at-arrival differences in home-ownership attainment among immigrants and their foreign-born offspring in Canada." Population, Space and Place 15(1): 19-36.

Mendez, P. (2009) "Immigrant residential geographies and the 'spatial assimilation' debate in Canada, 1997–2007." Journal of International Migration and Integration 10(1): 89-108.

Hiebert, D., and P. Mendez (2008) "Settling in: Newcomers in the Canadian Housing Market 2001-2005." Metropolis BC Working Paper No. 08-04. Vancouver: Metropolis BC.

Hiebert, D., P. Mendez and E. Wyly (2008) "The Housing Situation and Needs of Recent Immigrants in the Vancouver Metropolitan Area." Metropolis BC Working Paper No. 08-01. Vancouver: Metropolis BC.

Wyly, E., M. Atia, E. Lee, P. Mendez (2007) "Race, Gender, and Statistical Representation: Predatory Mortgage Lending and the US Community Reinvestment Movement." Environment and Planning A 39(9): 2139-2166.

Mendez, P., D. Hiebert, E. Wyly (2006) "Landing at Home: Insights on Immigration and Metropolitan Housing Markets from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada." Canadian Journal of Urban Research 15(2): 82-104.

Mendez, P. (2006) Priced Out: A Profile of Tenant Households and Their Capacity to Enter Homeownership in Metropolitan Canada. Master of Arts thesis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.

Mendez, P. (2005) "The Export-Processing City: Contradictory Space and the Logic of Bringing Together." (Mimeograph, awarded 2005 Best Master's Student Paper by the Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers).

RESEARCH REPORTS:

Hiebert, D., P. Mendez, E. Wyly (2006) Housing Situation and Needs of Recent Immigrants in the Vancouver CMA. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Hiebert, D., A. Germain, R. Murdie, V. Preston, J. Renaud, D. Rose, E. Wyly, V. Ferreira, P. Mendez, and A. M. Murnaghan (2006) The Housing Situation and Needs of Recent Immigrants in the Montréal, Toronto, and Vancouver CMAs: an Overview. Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Mendez, P. (2006) "Neighbourhoods as Sites of Integration: Social Dynamics and Local Governance." Cultures West 24(1): 16.

GUEST LECTURES:

Mendez, P. (2012) "Of Lofts and Basement Suites: Restructuring, Informalization and Middle-Class Housing." Department of Geography, York University (Colloquium Series lecture).

Mendez, P. (2011) "Life in the Basement: Informal Markets and Illegal Housing in Vancouver." University of British Columbia (urban geography course).

Mendez, P. (2007) "Landscape Analysis as Research Method." School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, BC (research methods course).

Mendez, P. (2006) "Immigration and Housing. A Look at Metropolitan Canada." University of British Columbia (urban geography course).

Mendez, P. (2002) "The Geopolitical Imaginations of the Plan Puebla-Panama." Simon Fraser University, BC (economic geography course).

Mendez, P. (2001) "Local-Global Geographies of the Maquila Industry." Simon Fraser University, BC (economic geography course).

PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS:

Mendez, P. and Moos, M. (2012) "From suburbs to suburbanisms: The case of Canada’s three largest metropolitan areas." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, May 31, Waterloo, ON.

Moos, M. and P. Mendez (2012) "Mapping the idealized Canadian post-War suburb onto today’s urban fabric." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, February 28, New York City, NY.

Mendez, P. (2011) "Illegal density and the remaking of Vancouver's suburbs." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, April 14, Seattle, WA.

Mendez, P. (2010) “Geographies of encounter and the accessory apartment in North American cities.” Paper presented at the Cascadia Critical Geographies Conference, October 30, Victoria, BC.

Mendez, P. (2009) "Immigration and landlord-tenant dispute resolution in Canada." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, May 28, Ottawa, ON.

Mendez, P. (2009) "Do economists make informal markets? The case of basement apartments in Vancouver." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, March 23, Las Vegas, NV.

Mendez, P. (2008) "Age at arrival and future socio-economic outcomes of immigrant children in Canada." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Canadian Sociological Association, June 3, Vancouver, BC.

Mendez, P. (2008) "Measuring socio-economic outcomes of adults who immigrated as children: the case of homeownership." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Canadian Association of Geographers, May 20, Quebec City, PQ.

Mendez, P. (2008) "Immigrant residential geographies and the 'spatial assimilation' debate in Canada, 1996-2006." Metropolis BC Working Paper No. 08-07. Vancouver: Metropolis BC.

Mendez, P. (2007) "The Homeownership Prospects of Newcomers in Vancouver, Canada." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Urban Affairs Association, April 27, Seattle,WA.

Mendez, P. (2007) "Priced out: Measuring the Accessibility of Homeownership in Metropolitan Canada." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, April 20, San Francisco, CA.

Mendez, P. (2006) "Immigrant Capacities of Entry into Homeownership in Vancouver, Canada." Paper presented at the 11th International Metropolis Conference, October 5, Lisbon, Portugal.

Mendez, P. (2006) "The Emergence of Visible Minority Neighbourhoods and the Canadian Assimilation Debate." Paper presented at the 8th National Metropolis Conference, March 25, Vancouver, BC.

AWARDS AND CREDENTIALS:

• University of British Columbia – Four Year Fellowships For PhD Students (September 2009 – August 2010).

• Province of British Columbia – The Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship (September 2009 – August 2010).

• University of British Columbia – PhD Tuition Fee Award (September 2006 – August 2010).

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Doctoral Canada Graduate Scholarship Award (September 2006 – August 2009).

• Green College, University of British Columbia – Resident Fellow (September 2008 – August 2009).

• Antipode Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice (Athens, GA) – Participant (2007).

• Best Master's Student Paper, Association of American Geographers, Cultural Geography Specialty Group (2005), for the paper "The Export-Processing City: Contradictory Space and the Logic of Bringing Together."