CCIS Senior Fellow Kathy Kopinak presented at the International Seminar: “The status of women in the border regions. The case of Mexico-US and Morocco-Spain” at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, B.C on May 8-9.  Her talk was entitled, “A comparison of family cultures among migrants with work experience in export processing industries in Mexico and Morocco”.
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Seminar to be held on Monday, April 29th in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.

Will comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) pass in 2013? The momentum that has been building towards CIR, which accelerated with last November’s presidential election and has since grown even more with the recent introduction of the Senate ‘gang of 8′s” bill, has shown no signs of slowing down. As a matter of politics, the key question is whether there are enough votes in Congress? While there are no crystal balls to tell us how legislators will ultimately vote, the recent history of immigration politics in the U.S. provides …

CCIS graduate student research and current Field Research Coordinator of the Mexican Migration Field Research program has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Keyes will teach courses on migration at Lewis and Clark during the 2013-2014 academic year.

Seminar to be held on Wednesday, April 17th in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the immigrant-origin population (immigrants and their children) and effectively ignoring the third-plus generation (those who are US-born of US-born parents).  We depart from this orthodox approach by placing third-plus-generation individuals at center stage to examine how they adjust to norms that the immigrant-origin population defines.  We draw on fieldwork in Cupertino, California, a high-skilled immigrant gateway, where an Asian immigrant-origin population has established and enforces an amplified version of high-achievement norms.  The resulting ethnoracial encoding of academic achievement constructs whiteness as having “lesser-than” …

The Penn Social Science and Policy Forum is pleased to announce its initial Summer Institute for Predissertation Students to be held in June of 2013.
Under the leadership of CCIS Director/Professor John Skrentny of the University of California-San Diego and SSPF Director Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania, this program will provide opportunities for talented doctoral students in the social sciences to visit the University of Pennsylvania campus to explore research topics and scholarship related to the theme of Inequality.
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Thursday, April 11
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Social Sciences Building 101
Rogers Brubaker (UCLA) will present, “Language, religion, and the politics of difference”.
*Jointly sponsored with UCSD Department of Sociology

8th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health
Berkeley and Oakland, California / Monday, June 24, 2013 – Friday, June 28, 2013
The Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health is an international event that offers researchers, faculty, graduate students and professionals working with migrant communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn about different health issues that affect mobile populations. International experts will present on the relationship between migration and global health from public health, public policy, and social science perspectives.
The organization of the 8th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health is a joint effort of the Health Initiative of the Americas –a …

CCIS Director John Skrentny and Graduate Student Researcher Jane Lilly Lopez, will present their paper “Obama’s Immigration Reform: The Triumph of Executive Action in His First Term” at the Indiana Journal of Law & Social Equality Annual Symposium: “Social Equality: Looking Forward and Looking Back” on Friday, April 5th.
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CCIS Director John Skrentny was a speaker on the panel “A New Narrative on Immigration” at the 5th Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna on February 27th.
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Thursday, March 7
12:30-2:00pm
Social Sciences Building 101
This paper is based on five years of ethnographic field research among a group of Latino fruit vendors in Los Angeles as well as interviews with their Mexico-based family members. It examines the influence of the sending community on migrant outcomes in the United States. For this population of migrants, I argue that the sending community and social networks structured around it can help to explain how migrants entered into and remained in the informal and high-risk work of fruit vending. In some instances, the exploitative nature of social networks structured around sending community negatively …