CCIS Director John Skrentny and UCSD graduate student Jane Lilly Lopez examine the Latino vote and President Obama’s record on immigration reform.
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CCIS Research Associate, Tom Wong, is a panelist for a KPBS screening of PBS Need to Know Election 2012 Special.
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CCIS Director, John Skrentny, presents “Is Immigration Necessary for Japan? Workers, Growth, and the Philosophies of Immigration” at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.
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CCIS Associate Director, David FitzGerald, speaks about an increase in security along the United States-Mexico border.

Wayne A. Cornelius, CCIS Director Emeritus, has been honored with Mexico’s highest award for foreigners: the Order of the Aztec Eagle.  Cornelius was selected “for his work of more than five decades to achieve greater and better understanding of Mexico in the United States”.
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CCIS Director John Skrentny comments on the politics surrounding the upcoming Supreme Court decision on affirmative action at the University of Texas.
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CCIS Research Associate Victoria Ojeda was awarded a GloCal fellowship for her work with deportee populations in Tijauna.
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CCIS graduate student researcher Angela S. García has published a paper in Ethnic and Racial Studies.  The article, titled “Return to Sender? A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Communities in ‘Attrition through Enforcement’ Destinations,” uses data from the Mexican Migration Field Research Program to show how state and local-level immigration policies affect Mexican immigrants living in California and Oklahoma.
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CCIS Research Associate and UCSD Assistant Professor Clarie Adida was named a 2012-13 Hellman Faculty Fellow.
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CCIS Research Associate and UCSD Associate Professor Marisa Abrajano was awarded the APSA Best Book on Latino Politics award for her ground-breaking book Campaigning to the New American Electorate.