Wayne A. Cornelius, CCIS Director Emeritus, comments on the decrease in Mexican immigration to the United States.
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Discussion to be held on Friday, April 20th in ERC 115 at 12:00 pm.
“Why Americans Don’t Join the Party” explores why so many Americans–in particular, Latinos and Asians–fail to develop ties to either major party, why African Americans feel locked into a particular party, and why some white Americans are shut out by ideologically polarized party competition. Through extensive analysis, the authors demonstrate that when the Democratic and Republican parties fail to raise political awareness, to engage deeply held political convictions, or to affirm primary group attachments, nonpartisanship becomes a rationally adaptive response. By developing a model of partisanship that …

The application for next year’s version of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program has been extended to May 15. Please visit this page to apply.

April 11, 6-8pm
The New School
Orientation Room, 2 W 13th St (at Fifth Ave)
A Panel Discussion with:
David FitzGerald, UC San Diego
Victoria Hattam, The New School
Adam McKeown, Columbia University
Understandings of immigration policy have all too often been limited by national blinders that fail to understand the full weight of interactions across borders. Domestic class conflict is a necessary but insufficient explanation for patterns of ethnic selection. Policies often converged in ways that inward-looking perspectives on ideologies of nation-building cannot fully explain. While racism had an important causal role to play in the development of immigration policies, the critical race perspective struggles to …

CCIS Associate Director David FitzGerald comments on what migrants in Mexico know about enforcement and dangers at the border.
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CCIS Visiting Scholar Magdalena Ziółek-Skrzypczak publishes Managing Integration of Immigrant Youth in the United States, Germany, and Poland
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CCIS graduate student researchers David Keyes and Angela S. García comment on their report, “Life as an Undocumented Immigrant: How Restrictive Local Immigration Policies Affect Daily Life,” in U-T San Diego, La Opinión, NBC San Diego, and Univision San Diego.
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Director of CCIS, John Skrentny, offers commentary on public opinion polls regarding Californians’ views on undocumented immigrants.
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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.
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The African and African-American Studies Research Center at UCSD presents a lecture by Cawo Abdi of University of Minnesota.  The talk examines the routes and rationales and factors that influence migration.
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