CCIS events are being held virtually via Zoom unless stated otherwise and may be recorded. All listings are Pacific Time.

Masking is currently optional for all in person events on campus. We encourage anyone who feels more comfortable continuing to wear a mask to do so. 

Seminar: Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

Friday, January 20, 2023  12:00pm-1:30pm
Author: Natasha Iskander, Professor, Urban Planning and Public Service, New York University
Discussant: Vanesa Ribas, Professor, Sociology, UC San Diego
[Event Flyer] [Registration]

Seminar: The Others: Race, Regulations, and Corruption in Mexico's Migration and Naturalization Policies, 1900–1950

Friday, March 3, 2023  12:00pm-1:30pm
Author: Pablo Yankelevich, Professor, El Colegio de Mexico
Discussant: Grace Peña Delgado, Associate Professor, History, UC Santa Cruz
This zoom seminar will be in Spanish and English
[Event Flyer] [Registration]

Seminar: Women Who Leave and the Men They Leave Behind: The Gendering of Migration and Mobility from Vietnam

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Presenter: Phung N. Su, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, UC San Diego
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer] 

Seminar: The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

Friday, June 2, 2023  12:30pm-2:00pm
Author: Rina Agarwala, Associate Professor, Sociology, John Hopkins University
Discussant: Rohan Advani
[Event Flyer] [Registration]

Seminar: Migrations and Emotions: A Three-Dimensional Analytical Approach

Date: TBA
Presenter: Eva Sotomayor, Professor, University of Jaén (Department of Psychology- Area of Social Work), CCIS Visiting Scholar
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer - Forthcoming] 

Seminar: One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America

Date: TBA
Author: Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor, Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Discussant: Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Research Associate at the Center for Population, Inequality and Policy, UC Irvine
[Event Flyer - Forthcoming] [Registration - Forthcoming]

Seminar: Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Date: TBA
Author: Leah Boustan, Professor, Economics, Princeton University and Director of the Industrial Relations Section.
Discussant: Claude S. Fischer, Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley
[Event Flyer - Forthcoming] [Registration - Forthcoming]