What’s Happening at CCIS
Seminar to be held on Tuesday, January 10th in ERC 115 at 12:30 pm.
What explains immigrant exclusion in urban West Africa? Africa scholars have long recognized the dynamic and political nature of citizenship in Africa. Immigration scholars have long debated the determinants of immigrant exclusion in industrialized democracies. But we know very little about the character of immigrant exclusion in Africa. This research contributes to our understanding of immigrant insecurity in the developing world by comparing and explaining the fates of two immigrant ethnic groups – the Nigerian Yorubas and Hausas – in three West African cities: Accra, Cotonou and …
Associate Director of CCIS, David FitzGerald, speaks about the changing patterns of immigration between the United States and Mexico.
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Q&A with David FitzGerald, associate professor of sociology and associate director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, at the University of California San Diego.
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CCIS Graduate Student Researcher David Keyes was interviewed by KPBS on the change in border arrests.
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CCIS Graduate Student Researcher Angela García participated on a panel at the University of San Diego on state and local immigration policy.
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El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Invites you to the presentation of the book:
Recession Without Borders
Mexican Migrants Confront the Economic Downturn
Edited by David Scott FitzGerald, Rafael Alarcón and Leah Muse-Orlinoff
Discussants:
Dr. Gustavo Verduzco Igartúa
El Colegio de México
Dra. Paz Trigueros Legarreta
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Azcapotzalco
Dr. Rafael Alarcón Acosta
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
November 24, 2011
5:00pm, Casa Colef
Francisco Sosa 254, Barrui de Sabta Catarina
Delegación Coyoacán, México, D.F.
www.colef.mx
A group of researchers from CCIS recently traveled to Washington, DC to present the results of research carried out as part of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program. In a presentation sponsored by the offices of Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-California) and Representative Candice Miller (R-Michigan), CCIS researchers presented research dealing with topics including the impact of border enforcement measures and laws at the sub-national level that deal with immigration matters on the behavior of Mexican immigrants in the United States. The presentation to congressional staffers was followed by a roundtable discussion with members of the Congressional Research Service (CRS). In a wide-ranging …
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Research from the Mexican Migration Field Research Program was mentioned in The Dallas Morning News
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On November 3-5, 2011, the University of California, San Diego will host the Second Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. The event is organized and sponsored by ERIP (LASA Section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples), CILAS-UCSD (Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego), CLAS-SDSU (Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University), LACES (Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, journal published by Taylor & Francis and housed at UCSD), Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (University of California, San Diego), and CCIS (Center for Comparative …
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An Immersion program for the 2012 January Intersession is being sponsored by University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute. The program offers a great opportunity to gain international experience and learn about the important issues surrounding the San Diego-Tijuana border community through political, economic, social, and theological spectrum.
For more information, view website and flyer.
