International Migration Section Mini-Conference: "Making Connections"

New! August 7, 2009: International Migration Section Mini-Conference:
"Making Connections"

When:
Friday, August 7, 2009, 9am - 6pm
(the day before the start of the ASA annual meeting)

Where:
Lipman Room, 8th Floor, Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley

» Registration for for "Making Connections" is now closed.

The International Migration section is delighted to host the first-ever IM "Making Connections" mini-conference this summer!

Details at: http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/immigration/students/conferences.html

Tuesday, March 3rd

Ordering takeout and discussing ....

Definitions and Data: The case of migrants in the EU

6:30
Tuesday, March 3rd
Pilar's condo
email with RSVP or questions


The idea is to discuss migration research related to Europe because:

1. We often ignore Europe.
2. There are some crazy difficult problems with defining "migrant" in the European context.
3. Tim Smeeding just gave a DemSem presentation about new data from annual household surveys conducted in the EU.
   

Spring 2009 speaker list

A great list of visiting scholars and brown bag presentations compiled by Pilar. The fun starts tomorrow when Bill Fletcher presents at the Havens Center....

• Feb 25, Wednesday – 4pm
  Bill Fletcher, American Federation of Gov’t Employees “Strangers in a Strange Land: African American-Immigrant Tensions and the Potential for Utility in the 21st Century
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building


• Feb 27, Friday – 12:15pm
  Mytoan Nguyen, “Diasporic Return Migration in Contemporary Vietnam”
  Sociology of Economic Change and Development – 8108 Sewell Social Science Building


• March 10, Tuesday – 4pm
  Ethel Brooks, Department of Sociology Rutgers University “Production, Reproduction and Citizenship in Transnational Perspective”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 5243 Humanities


• March 24, Tuesday – 4pm
  Gary Segura, Department of Political Science Standford University “Latino Political Incorporation and an Emerging Democratic Majority? Latinos in the 2008 Presidential Election”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham Hall


• March 25, Wednesday – 4pm
  Gary Segura, Department of Political Science Standford University “Immigration and Its Discontents: Evaluating the Cultural, Political and Economic Arguments about Latin American Immigration on Their (De)Merits”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Science Building


• March 25, Thursday – 12:30pm
  Gary Segura, Department of Political Science Standford University – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8108 Sewell Social Science Building


• April 7, Tuesday – 4pm
  Jorge Duany, Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico, “The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Changing Settlement Patterns and Cultural Identities”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham


• April 8, Wednesday – 4pm
  Jorge Duany, Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico, “The Dominican Diaspora: A Transnational Perspective”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Science Building


• April 9, Thursday – 12:30pm
  Jorge Duany, Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8108 Social Science


• April 13, Monday – Noon
  Mytoan Nguyen, “Diasporas and Economic Transformation: Ethnic Returenees in Vietnam 1988 to 2008”
  Race and Ethnicity Training Seminar – 3470 Social Science


• April 14, Tuesday – 4pm
  Marc Rodriguez, History and Law at Uniersity of Notre Dame, “The Tejano Diaspora in Action: Texas, Wisconsin, and the Civil and Labor Rights Movement of the 1960s”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham


• April 15, Wednesday – 11am
  Marc Rodriguez, History and Law at Uniersity of Notre Dame – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 5243 Humanities


• April 15, Wednesday – 4pm
  Marc Rodriguez, History and Law at Uniersity of Notre Dame, “The Jury Right in Comparative Context: Reconsidering Hernandez v. Texas”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 7200 Law School


• April 28, Tuesday – 4pm
  Juan Flores, Latino Studies, New York University, “Coming Home to Roost: Rethinking Diaspora and Cultural Remittances”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 206 Ingraham


• April 29, Wednesday – 4pm
  Juan Flores, Latino Studies, New York University, “Caribeño Counterstream: Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban Diasporas on the Move”
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8417 Sewell Social Science Building


• April 30, Thursday – 12:20pm
  Juan Flores, Latino Studies, New York University – Open Seminar
  Havens Center Spring 2009 Visiting Scholars Program – 8108 Sewell Social Science Building


• May 1, Friday –
  Mytoan Nguyen, “Diasporic Return Migration in Contemporary Vietnam”
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies Forum –


• May 4, Monday – Noon
  Robert Courtney Smith, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at Baruch College, CUNY, “Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn…But Check His Papers”
  Race and Ethnicity Training Seminar – 3470 Social Science

Spring 2009

Stay tuned for updates: we're hoping to schedule three more meetings of the migration group this semester, starting in February.

There are also seminars and presentations happening across campus of relevance to our members.

For details, contact Pilar (Sociology): pilargonalons@gmail.com.