Dr. Rhoades dissertation research (1976) was titled Guestworkers and Germans: The Anthropology of Migration and was one of the first studies of intra-European migration. In the study, he focused on Spanish and Turkish migrants in Germany and their return to and impacts on their home communities. In 1979, Dr. Rhodes was awarded a National Science Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the application of the guestworker program and policies to Mexican immigration to the USA. In recent years, he and Dr. Virginia Nazarea have received grants to study introduced germplasm by Vietnamese immigrants and refugees to the US. He is also instrumental in starting an interdisciplinary collaborative research group at the University of Georgia to carry out research for immigration policy in the US South.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

2001 Guestworkers or Illegals: Comparative Observation of Labor Migration to Germany and The American South. In Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings. No. 34. Athens, University of Georgia Press. Pp. 23-35.

1980 European migration and development: Response to a rebuttal. American Anthropologist 21(3): 293 94.

1980 European Cyclical Migration and Economic Development. The Case of Southern Spain. In Urban Life, ed. George Gmelch and Walter Zenner, 279-92. New York: St. Martin's Press (Revised and updated for Third Edition, 1996).

1979 The Anthropology of Return Migration. Editor. Papers in Anthropology 20(1):1-196. Special Issue.

1978 Foreign labor and German industrial capitalism 1971 1978: The evolution of a migratory system. American Ethnologist 5(3): 553 73.

1978 Development implications of European cyclical migration. American Anthropologist 80(4): 936 38.

1978 lntra European return migration and rural development: Lessons from the Spanish case. Human Organization 37(2): 136 47.