CCIS Research Associate Claire Adida publishes new articles on Muslim integration; immigrant exclusion in Africa; Mexican migrant remittances
Identifying barriers to Muslim integration in France, with David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort. 2010. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(52).

States, Migration, and International Cooperation: Can there be a global migration regime?
Seminar to be held in ERC 115 at 2:00 pm.
Within the migration literature and policy circles, there is a enthusiasm for the international governance of migration. At their most ambitious, scholars hope to see the emergence of a global migration governance regime that would do for voluntary migration what the UNHCR has done for forced migration. Drawing on a three-year research project, Hanson’s paper critically examines global migration governance and explores the extent to which there can be any international cooperation of migration.
The paper begins with the assumption that …

REMESO – the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University in Sweden
The postdoctoral position holder is expected to conduct high level research to the extent of at least 80 per cent of full time duties, within REMESO’s research programme, with a focus on migration-related developments within the ICT sector. This entails research on globalisation, migration policy and international migration trends, and the connections between labour market flexibilisation and ethnified- and gendered segmentation processes. Empirically, the research shall be oriented towards trans-national and/or comparative studies of labour migration, working life and the development of the ICT sector.
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February 26 – Second Annual UC Migration Conference hosted by the Gifford Center
The Gifford Center and UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) will host the Second Annual University of California Migration Conference on February 26, 2011 at UC Davis. This multi-disciplinary conference will provide an opportunity for University of California faculty and advanced graduate students to share their current migration-related research. Click here for information about last year’s conference, held at UCSD. If you are a UC faculty member or advanced graduate student and are interested in attending, please contact Prof. David J. Kyle at djkyle@ucdavis.edu
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David FitzGerald presents research at the conference on “Latin-American Immigrants in Spain and the US: A Comparative Perspective,” University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 11.
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On February 8, CCIS hosted the US Army War College for a morning briefing. High-ranking officers from more than 20 countries, including Canada, India, South Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland and Senegal, attended the session. The panelists were David Mares, who spoke on “Post-Drug War Visions: What Comes after 40 Years?,” David FitzGerald on “The Effects of Migration Control Measures on Unauthorized Migration to the United States,” Amada Armenta on ” Policing Immigrants: Dilemmas of Interior Immigration Enforcement,” and John Skrentny on “The Politics of Immigration.”

Genomic Science, Ancestry, and Racial Construction: New Complexity in the American Racial Order
Seminar to be held in ERC 115 at 2:00 pm.
Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies and a lectureship in the Harvard Kennedy School. She taught at Princeton University before moving to Harvard in 2000. Hochschild recently co-edited (with John Mollenkopf) Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (Cornell University Press, 2009), and recently co-authored (with Brenna Powell), “Racial Reorganization and the …

John Skrentny presents research at the “Workshop on Comparative Policy Responses to Demographic Change in East Asia: Defining a Research Agenda” at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.
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Beyond assimilation: The Second Generation in France
Seminar to be held in ERC 115 at 2:00 pm.
After being one of the most renowned “assimilationnist’s country” in the world, France has recently been engaged in quick changes in its framing of incorporation of “immigrants”. Indeed, not only the concepts and theories used to portray the processes behind the “remaking of the French mainstream” have dramatically changed but the categories of those targeted by these processes have also been renewed. Access of “new second generations” (i.e. those born from the waves of immigration of the 1950s and 1960s) to the job market and …

John Skrentny presents research at the panel “Does Race-Consciousness Affect Diversity?” at the Association of American Law Schools 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  Other panelists included Richard T. Ford (Stanford Law School), Ann Morning (Sociology, NYU), Angela I. Onwuachi-Willig (University of Iowa College of Law), Camille Gear Rich (University of Southern California Gould School of Law), and Tristin K. Green (moderator, University of San Francisco School of Law).