Michael Peter Smith is Professor of Community Studies and Development at the University of California, Davis, and a Faculty Associate of the Center for California Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published numerous books on cities, global migration, and urbanism including The City and Social Theory (1979), The Capitalist City (1987), City, State, and Market (1988), The Bubbling Cauldron (1995), and Transnationalism from Below (1998).