Past Events
2024-2025
Event: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Collaborative Planning Meeting
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 2:00pm-3:30pm
This is a Closed In-person event.
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Building, Conference Room PEB721
Workshop: Organizing Live-in Care Workers in the U.S. and in Germany
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 11:00am-12:00pm
Presenter: Gülten Gizem Fesli, PhD candidate in Sociology, Bayreuth University, Germany
CCIS Visiting Graduate Student, UC San Diego
This is an In-person event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
Fall NSP Reading Group: "Climate Refugee Figurations
Reading Group & Fall Reception
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 5:00pm-6:30pm.
This is an In-person event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America
Friday, October 25, 2024 12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Blair Sackett, Research Fellow, Immigration Lab, American University
Commentator: Helen Marrow, Professor, Sociology, Tufts University
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Event: UCSD Global Borders Initiative Kickoff
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 4:00pm-6:30pm
This is a Closed In-person event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
Workshop: Place Attachment, (Im)mobility Decisions, and Rural Wellbeing in Southeast Europe
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 11:00am-12pm
Presenter: Arjola Arapi Gjini, Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany
This is an In-person event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
2023-2024
Seminar: Transnational Social Protection; Social Welfare Across National Borders
Friday, May 17, 2024 12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Erica Dobbs, Assistant Professor, Politics, Pomona College
Peggy Levitt, Professor, Sociology, Wellesey College
Discussant: Jean-Michel Lafleur, Associate Professor, University of Liège (Belgium)
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Istanbul-Cancún-San Diego. Investigating the ongoing migrations from Turkey to the United States
Date & Time: Friday, February 16, 2024, 12pm-1:30pm
Presenters: Chiara Maritato is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society,
University of Turin
Erika Pinheiro, Executive Director, Al Otro Lado
Nicoló Filippo Rosso, Italian Documentary Photographer
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Maya and Ladino/a/x Guatemalan Labor Migrations: Intersections between Indigenous and Latinx Material Conditions in Southern California
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Julio Orellana, 2023-2025 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara
This is an In-person event.
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Building, Room PEB721
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System
Date & Time: Friday, February 2, 2024, 12pm-1:30pm
Author: Bridget M. Haas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Detention Empire
Date & Time: Friday, January 19, 2024, 12pm-1:30pm
Author: Tina Shull, Associate Professor and Director of Public History, UNC Charlotte
Discussant: Ingrid Eagly, Professor, UCLA Law
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Crossing the Darien Gap
Date & Time: Friday, December 8, 2023, 12pm-1:30pm
Presenters: Julie Turkewitz and Federico Rios, New York Times reporter/photographer
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America
Date & Time: Friday, November 17, 2023, 12pm-1:30pm
Author: Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Discussant: Suzanne Model
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording - Forthcoming]
Seminar: European Union Border Policy: Similarities with and Differences to the US
Date & Time: Friday, November 3, 2023, 12pm-1:30pm
Presenters: Daniel Thym, Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany
CCIS Visiting Scholar, UC San Diego
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Date & Time: Thursday, October 12, 2023 2pm Start Time
Author: Leah Boustan, Professor, Economics, Princeton University and Director of the Industrial Relations Section
This was a In-person event only. Hosted by the Global Economy Workshop and Co-sponsored by CCIS
Location: GPS 3106
Seminar: Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation
Date & Time: Thursday, October 5, 2023, 5:30pm-7pm
Presenters: Abigail Andrews, Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program, UC San Diego
Mexican Migration Field Research Program Participants, UC San Diego
This was a In-person event.
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Building, Room PEB721
[Event Flyer]
2022-2023
Seminar: Migrations and Emotions: A Three-Dimensional Analytical Approach
Date: June 5, 2023 9:00am-10:30am
Presenter: Eva Sotomayor, Professor, University of Jaén (Department of Psychology- Area of Social Work), CCIS Visiting Scholar
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration
Friday, June 2, 2023 12:00pm-1:30pm
Author: Rina Agarwala, Associate Professor, Sociology, John Hopkins University
Discussant: Rohan Advani
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Date: May 19, 2023
Author: Leah Boustan, Professor, Economics, Princeton University and Director of the Industrial Relations Section.
Discussant: Claude S. Fischer, Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Standoff Politics and Carcerality at Sea: Criminalizing Solidarity in the Central Mediterranean
Monday, May 8, 2023
Presenter: Michael Gordon is a Research Associate at the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) at Wilfrid Laurier
Visiting Scholar, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Conference (2 days): Sociology of Migration: In Honor of Roger Waldinger
Friday, May 5, 2023 8am-5:30pm Saturday, May 6, 2023 8am-12pm
Presenters: Click on the Event Flyer Link for details
This will be a Hybrid In-person and Zoom event
Location: Structural & Materials Engineering Building, Conference Room SME 248
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Why States Restrict Refugee Rights: A Cross-Country Comparison of Refugee and Asylum Policies
Monday, April 24, 2023
Presenter: Hirotaka Fujibayashi, PhD candidate in International Relations and Political Science, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland
Visiting Graduate Student, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
This will be now be a Hybrid event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: The Making of a Crisis: Migration and Polarisation in the French Media
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Presenter: Michelle Reddy, Assistant Adjunct Professor and Program Director for the Master in Development Practice (MDP) program, UC Berkeley
This will be now be a Hybrid event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Expanded refugee protection for some: Understanding the application patterns of the Cartagena refugee definition in Mexico
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Presenter: Luisa Feline Freier, Associate Professor of Political Sciences and IDRC Research Chair on Migration and Forced Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru)
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
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 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] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Legal and Policy Responses to Climate Refugees from Central European Perspective
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Presenter: Martin Rozumek, Executive Director of the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU), Prague, Czech Republic, CCIS Visiting Scholar, UC San Diego
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
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] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: A New Age of Migration?: September 11th, Covid-19, and the Politics of Migration Regulation in Europe and the US
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 11:00am-12:30pm
Presenter: Gallya Lahav, Associate Professor, Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, CCIS Visiting Scholar
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
Conference: The UCSD Migration Research Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Friday, October 7, 2022
This will be an In-person event only
Location: Social Sciences Building (SSB), Conference Room 107 (SSB 107)
[Agenda]
Seminar: Belonging in Dubai: Temporary Migrants and Cosmopolitanism
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Presenter: Hee Eun Kwon, PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC San Diego
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: In Search of Exits: Emigration Freedom, Irregular Departures, and State-Building in China
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Presenter: Jiaqi Liu, PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC San Diego
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]
2021-2022
Seminar: The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies
Friday, June 3, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Adrian Favell
Discussant: Sara Wallace Goodman
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Program: The 2022 Immigration Law and Border Enforcement Program
Sunday, May 22, 2022 to Sunday, May 29, 2022
[Program Schedule]
Workshop: Government Data in Migration Research: Advantages, Pitfalls, and Examples
Friday, May 20, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Workshop Leaders: Austin Kocher, Syracuse University, Caitlin Patler, UC Davis, Juan Pedroza, UC Santa Cruz, Alicia Riley, UC Santa Cruz
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Center for the Study of International Migration, UC Los Angeles
In Co-Sponsorship with:
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley
Global Migration Center, UC Davis
Immigration Research Group, UC Riverside
Migration Initiative, UC Santa Barbara
[Event Flyer] [Workshop Recording]
Seminar: Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America
Friday, May 13, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Susan Eckstein
Discussant: César Ayala
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: From “Sea Turtles” to “Grassroots Ambassadors”: The Chinese Politics of Outbound Student Migration
Friday, May 6, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Jiaqi Liu
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Panel Discussion: Refugees and the War in Ukraine
Friday, April 29, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Panelist: Raphi Rechitsky, Martin Rozumek, Rana Khoury, Marta Bivand Erdal, and Marta Pachocka
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Seeking Refuge, Finding Inequality: Refugees Navigating Their Way
Friday, April 22, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Annette Lareau and Blair Sackett
Discussant: Catherine Bestemann
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential
Friday, April 8, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Heba Gowayed
Discussant: Dagmar Soennecken
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin
Friday, March 11, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Phi Su
Discussant: Irene Bloemraad
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The governance of 'vulnerable' migrants - who decides?
Thursday, March 10, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Dagmar Soennecken
This will be a hybrid In-person / Zoom event
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
All In-person attendees must be masked as per UCSD policy (No exceptions)
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The Demand-Side of the H-1B Visa Process: Examining Firm Behavior
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Kevin Shih
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
All In-person attendees must be masked (No exceptions)
[Event Flyer]
Workshop: A new frontier in immigration research: Historical record linkage
Friday, March 4, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Workshop Leaders: Peter Catron & Santiago Perez
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Center for the Study of International Migration, UC Los Angeles
In Co-Sponsorship with:
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley
Global Migration Center, UC Davis
Immigration Research Group, UC Riverside
Migration Initiative, UC Santa Barbara
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Transnationalism and Walls: History and Limits?
Friday, February 25, 2022 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Nancy L. Green
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border
Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Ashley Bavery
Discussant: David FitzGerald
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil
Friday, February 11, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Andrea Wright
Discussant: Steven McKay
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Global Regimes of Closure: Concepts and Methods for Exploring Connections between Novel Mixed Migration Routes and Frustrated Mobility Aspirations
Thursday, February 10, 2022 10:00am-11:30am
Presenter: Craig Smith
This will be a Hybrid In-Person / Zoom event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
All In-person attendees must be masked (No exceptions)
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Migration and Inequality
Friday, February 4, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Mirna Safi
Discussant: Andres Villareal
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics
Friday, January 21, 2022 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Maria Sobolewska & Robert Ford
Discussant: Michael Thies
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Book Panel: L'asile et l'exil: Une histoire de la distinction réfugiés/migrants & Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move
Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Karen Akoka & Rebecca Hamlin
Discussant: Roger Waldinger
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Workshop: Flexible approaches to ethnographic research during a global pandemic: Learning with and from immigrant families
This workshop is for UC Graduate Students and Candidates, Visiting Scholars, and Visiting Graduate Students only
Not available to the Public
Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm-2:00pm
Workshop Leader: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Center for the Study of International Migration, UC Los Angeles
In Co-Sponsorship with:
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Berkeley
Global Migration Center, UC Davis
Immigration Research Group, UC Riverside
Migration Initiative, UC Santa Barbara
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State
Friday, November 12, 2021 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Jane Lilly López
Discussant: Irene Vega
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
Friday, October 29, 2021 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Erin Chung
Discussant: Ben Nyblade
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Workshop: Research in a policy context: a practical approach
Friday, October 28, 2021 10:00am-12:00pm
Presenter: Simon McMahon
[Event Flyer]
Book Panel: Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa & Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees
Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm-2:00pm
Authors: Kelsey Norman & Lamis Abdelaaty
Discussant: Michael Provence
[Event Flyer]
2020-2021
Webinar: Refugee Health: Research, Care and Policy
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Presenters: Tala Al-Rousan, MD, MPH ● Ramah Awad, BAH ● Thomas J. Csordas, PhD ● David Fitzgerald, PhD ● Rita Hamad, MD, PhD ● Scott Herskovitz, MD ● Linda Hill, MD, MPH ● Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Celebration of UCLA Migration Sociology
Friday, June 4, 2021
Authors: Laura Enriquez, Rocío Rosales, David Trouille, Tahseen Shams, & Eli Wilson
Discussant: David FitzGerald & Jaeeun Kim
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies
Friday, May 28, 2021
Author: Alex Betts
Discussant: Sam Bazzi
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris
Friday, May 21, 2021
Authors: Julie Kleinman
Discussant: Laurie Hart
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance
Friday, May 14, 2021
Authors: Terry Greene Sterling & Jude Joffe-Block
Discussant: Amada Armenta
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All
Friday, May 7, 2021
Author: Elizabeth Cohen
Discussant: Margaret Peters
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording-Part 1] [Seminar Recording-Part 2]
Seminar: LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest (Korean Communities across the World)
Friday, April 30, 2021
Author: Kyeyoung Park
Discussant: Rocio Rosales
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants
Friday, April 23, 2021
Author: James McCann and Michael Correa Jones
Discussant: Zoltan Hajnal
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
Friday, April 16, 2021
Author: Richard Alba
Discussant: Susan K Brown
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States
Friday, April 9, 2021
Authors: Allan Colbern & Karthick Ramakrishnan
Discussant: Kirk Bansak
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
Friday, April 2, 2021
Author: Niambi Carter
Discussant: Efren Perez
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Workshop: Emerging Immigration Scholars Session 5 - Immigration and the Law
Friday, March 12, 2021
Presenters: Deisy Del Real, Jane López, Carrie Rosenbaum
Commentator: Jennifer M. Chacón
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia
Friday, March 5, 2021
Author: Nazita Lajervadi
Discussant: David Sears
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Workshop: Emerging Immigration Scholars Session 4 - How Migrants Incorporate
Friday, February 26, 2021
Presenters: Nazreen Bacchus, Liliana Rodriguez, Dialika Sall
Commentator: Rubén Hernández-León
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe
Friday, February 19, 2021
Author: Milena Belloni
Discussant: Kelsey Norman
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Workshop: Emerging Immigration Scholars Session 3 - Enforcement as Immigration Policy
Friday, February 12, 2021
Presenters: Chloe East, Pedro Gerson, David Hausman, Emily Pope-Obeda, Carolina Valdivia
Commentator: Wayne Cornelius, Roger Waldinger
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf
Friday, February 5, 2021
Author: Noora Lori
Discussant: Kevan Harris
[Event Flyer]
Workshop: Emerging Immigration Scholars Session 2 - Inside Asylum
Friday, January 29, 2021
Presenters: John Doering-White, Luisa Feline Freier, Chiara Galli, Sara Rodriguez-Arguelles Riva
Commentator: Susan Bibler Coutin
[Event Flyer]
Book Discussion: Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Authors: David FitzGerald, Professor, Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and John Skrentny Director of the Yankelovich Center and Professor of Sociology at UC San Diego
Panelists: Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley), Tomas Jimenez (Stanford University), Manuel Pastor (USC), Andrew Selee (the Migration Policy Institute)
Moderator: Marcela Maxfield, Stanford University Press Senior Editor for Sociology, Law, and Asian Studies.
[Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965
Friday, January 22, 2021
Author: Maddalena Marinari
Discussant: Roger Waldinger
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Immigration Policy Ideas for the Biden Administration
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Speakers: Dianne Solis, main immigration journalist at the Dallas Morning News
Kevin Johnson, Dean of Law School at UCD
Irene Bloemraad, Director BIMI
David FitzGerald, Co-Director CCIS
Giovanni Peri, Director GMC
Moderator: Brad Jones, Political Science UC Davis.Author: David Nasaw
[Event Flyer]
Workshop: Emerging Immigration Scholars Session 1 - Understanding Attitudes toward Migrants
Friday, January 15, 2021
Presenters: Nicolas Ajzenman, Antonella Bandiera, Hajar Yazdiha
Commentator: Claire Adida
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
Friday, January 8, 2021
Author: David Nasaw
Discussant: David FitzGerald
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation
Friday, December 4, 2020
Author: Lauren Heidbrink
Discussant: Seth M. Holmes
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: The President and Immigration Law
Friday, November 20, 2020
Author: Cristina Rodríguez
Author: Adam Cox
Discussant: Hiroshi Motomura
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Friday, November 13, 2020
Author: Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Discussant: Ingrid Eagly
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset
Friday, November 6, 2020
Author: Yossi Harpaz
Discussant: Rogers Brubaker
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Friday, October 30, 2020Author: Adam Goodman
Discussant: Toby Higbie
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Friday, October 23, 2020Author: Emine Fidan Elcioglu
Discussant: Tom Medvetz
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico
Friday, October 16, 2020Author: Lauren Duquette-Rury
Discussant: Abigail Andrews
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Argentina in the Global Middle East
Friday, October 9, 2020
Author: Lily Balloffet
Discussant: Stacy Fahrenthold
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: We are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
Friday, October 2, 2020
Authors: Leisy Abrego, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Joel Sati, Carolina Valdivia
Discussant: Frances Contreras
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
2019-2020
Seminar: Refugees must not be left behind in the global COVID response: Public health perspectives
Monday, June 8, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Dr. Tala Al-Rousan
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Migration and integration issues of Azerbaijanis in the United States: a look from the outside and inside
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Rufat Efendiyev
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Revisiting "National Security, Epidemics, and US Immigration Policy" During a Pandemic
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Robbie Totten
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Preserving the Economic Well-being of Immigrants and Refugees During COVID-19
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Erica Bouris
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
Seminar: Legalizing the Impossible Subject: The White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression
Monday, February 24, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: S. Deborah Kang
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Emigrant Political Rights in Latin America: A configurational analysis approach
Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Leydy Diossa-Jimenez
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Citizenship in Hard Times
Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Sara Wallace Goodman
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Suffer the Little Children: Unaccompanied Child Migrants and the Geopolitics of Compassion in Postwar America
Monday, December 2, 2019 12:00pm-1:30pm
Co-Sponsored by: Institute of the Arts and Humanities, UC San Diego
Presenter: Anita Casavantes Bradford
Discussant: John Skrentny
[Event Flyer]
Book Panel: Migration Control: Authors of Three New Books Meet Critics
Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:00pm-4:00pm
Authors: John Torpey, - Invention of the Passport, 2nd Edition
Daniel Martinez, - The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the US-Mexico Border
David FitzGerald, - Refuge Beyond Reach
Chair: Vanesa Ribas
Discussant: Margaret Peters
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: Family of Strangers: The Dynamics of Brokering in Second-Generation Transnational Ties
Monday, October 7, 2019 11:30AM-1:00PM
Presenter: Armand Gutierrez
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: The New Challenges at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Thursday, September 26, 2019 1:00PM-2:30PM
Location: Institute of the Americas, Deutz Room, International Lane, La Jolla, CA 92093
Hosted by : Center for US-Mexican Studies Co-Sponsor by: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
2018-2019
Program: The 2019 Immigration Law and Border Enforcement Program
Sunday, May 19, 2019 to Sunday, May 26, 2019
[Program Schedule]
Seminar: Struggles to be able to stay in place: Salvadoran migration and collective action in times of violence
Monday, May 13, 2019 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Joseph Wiltberger, Visiting Scholar, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Assistant Professor of Central American Studies, California State University, Northridge
[Event Flyer]
Seminar: "What makes Americans act on behalf of refugees?"
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Claire Adida, Co-Driector, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Associate Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego
[Event Flyers]
Seminar: Citizenship health inequalities across the US: State-level immigrant policies and health care access
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Project Director, Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy
(RIGHTS) Study at the Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Merced
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Conference: Amenazas a los Derechos de las Personas Migrantes en Estados Unidos de America
Thursday, February 28, 2019
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Seminar: Migration and Borders in the Twenty-First Century
Thursday, February 14, 2019 2pm-4pm (Closed Event)
Presenters: David FitzGerald, Kate Ricke, David Mares, S. Deborah Kang, Rafael Fernández de Castro
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Seminar: Im/migration, health inequities, and marginalized communities: Insights from an applied field course at the Mexico-U.S. border
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12pm-1:30pm
Presenters: Shira Goldenberg, Argentina E. Servin
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Book Launch: Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12pm-1:30pm
Author: Abigail Leslie Andrews
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Seminar: Migrant Caravan
Thursday, November 29, 2018 4pm-6pm
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Conference: Forced Migration: An Interdisciplinary Exchange
Friday, November 16, 2018 9am-5pm
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Seminar: Beyond the Wall: The Aftermath of Deportation in Mexico
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 6:15pm-8pm
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Seminar: Crisis? What Crisis? The historical roots of Europe's "Refugee Crisis"
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Leo Lucassen
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Seminar: Migrants in the big European waiting room: what EU “hotspots” tell us about border policy
Monday, October 29, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Virginie Guiraudon
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Conference: 2018 PRIEC Conference
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10am-5pm
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2017-2018
Program: The 2018 Immigration Law and Border Enforcement Program
Sunday, May 20, 2018 to Sunday, May 27, 2018
[Program Schedule]
Seminar: Social Science and Legal Practice: Translating Migration & Refugee Research
Monday, May 14, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Panelists: Asher Hirsch, Mitra Ebadolahi, & David Shirk
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Seminar: Paradoxes of Participation: Oppositional Consciousness and the Challenges of the Collective
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Greg Prieto
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Workshop: The California Endowment/ CHIS Immigration Research Workshop
Saturday, March 3, 2018 10:00am-6pm
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Conference: 9th Annual UC International Migration Conference“Immigrant California: Policies and Politics”
Friday, March 2, 2018 9am-4:30pm
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Seminar: How Italy's Humanitarian Corridors Have Created Pathways to Protection in Europe
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Claire Higgins
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Seminary: Intergenerational Relationships among Latino Immigrant Families in Spain: Conflict and Emotional Intimacy
Monday, February 5, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Amparo González Ferrer
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Seminar: The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Changing American Life
Monday, January 22, 2018 12pm-1:30pm
Author: Tomas Jimenez
Discussant: Jennifer Lee
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Seminar: Challenges for Dreamers in Trump’s America
Monday, December 4, 2017 9:30am-12:30pm
Panelists: Rafael Fernández de Castro, Tom K. Wong, Verónica Benitez, Paris Salgado, Yesenia Sanchez, Luis Cruz Cardoso, Dulce Garcia, Julia Preston, & Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa
Conference: Refugee & Asylum Policies in an Age of Resurgent Nationalism
Friday, December 1, 2017 9am-4:30pm
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Seminar: Behind Immigration Debates: Discourse, Policy and Reality of Muslim Integration in Western Societies
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 11am-12:30pm
Presenter: Jeffrey Reitz
Discussant: Claire Adida
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Conference: Immigrant Integration and Gateways for Growth: Comparative Perspectives
Monday, November 13, 2017 1pm-5:30pm
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Seminar: How Immigration Policy Affects Health and Human Rights
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 6pm-7:30pm
Panelists: David FitzGerald, Nicole Ramos, James Dell, & Fernando Mendoza
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Roundtable: Differentiated Transnationalisms: Class, Gender, and Agency in Migrants' Homeland Engagement
Monday, November 6, 2017 2pm-3:30pm
Panelists: Thomas LaCroix, Swanie Potot, & Armand Gutierrez
Moderator: Abigail Andrews
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Seminar: The Emergence of Korean American Communities on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Monday, October 9, 2017 2pm-3:30pm
Presenter: Minjeong Kim
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2016-2017
Seminar: Growning up in the Age of Enforcement: Illegality and Children's Power in Families
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Joanna Dreby
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Seminar: Temporary Legal Statuses and Transformations of the Immigrant Self
Thursday, May 25, 2017 2pm - 3:30pm
Presenter: Cecilia Menjivar
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Conference: Human Rights and Migration
Friday, May 19, 2017 10:15am-5:15pm
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Conference: 8th Annual UC International Migration Conference "Immigrant California: The Social, Economic, and Political Status of California's Immigrants
Saturday, May 13, 2017 8am-5pm
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Seminar: The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Monday, March 13, 2017 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: S. Deborah Kang - Author
Commentator: Alina Méndez
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Seminar: How Ordinary People View Muslim Group Rights in Europe: Signigicant 'Gaps' Between Majorities and Muslims?
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Paul Statham
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Seminar: Migration and Crisis: Official Discourses, External Citizenship and new Forms of Mobilization in the Case of Spain
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Dr. Ana María López-Sala
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Seminar: The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: Race and Legal Exclusion in 21st Century United States
Monday, January 23, 2017 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Mary C. Waters
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Post-Election Panel Discussion: Election 2016 and Immigration Politics: Where Do We Go From Here?
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 12pm-1:30pm
Panelists: Zoltan Hajnal, John Skrentny, Tom K. Wong, & Kim Williams
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Film Screening: The Deportation of Innocence
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 4:00pm
Film Director: Francisco Alarcòn
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2015-2016 and Prior
Seminar: 200 years of a South American Citizenship: Continuity and Change on Migration and Mobility in the Region
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Diego Acosta, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
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Workshop: Research Universities, International STEM Students, and the Innovation Economy: San Diego, Californaia and Beyond
Monday, May 2, 2016 8:30am-5:45pm
[Workshop Agenda]
Conference: 7th Annual UC International Migration Conference "Immigrant Integration: California and Beyond
Friday, April 22, 2016 8:30am - 5:30pm
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Seminar: Community-Based Research and Early Hispanic Immigration to Colorado
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Marjorie K. McIntosh, Professor, University of Colorado
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Seminar: The New Immigration Federalism
Monday, February 29, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Dean & Professor, UC Riverside
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Seminar: From Aliens, Traitors and Defectors to Victims, Talents and Citizens: Redefining Pre-2003 Emigrants in Post-2003 Iraq
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Geraldine Chatelard, Research Associate, Institut Francais du Proche-Orient
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Book Panel: Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies
Friday, February 5, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Authors: Claire Adida, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego and David Laitin, Professor, Stanford University
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Seminar: Labor Standards Enforcement: How State and Society are Working Together to Fight Wage Theft and Workplace Injury
Monday, January 27, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Janice Fine, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
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Seminar: Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
Monday, January 11, 2016 12pm-1:30pm
Presenters: Frank D. Bean and Susan K. Brown
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Conference: Comparative Responses to Asylum Seeking in Europe, Australia, The U.S., and Middle East
Tuesday, November 30, 2015 9am - 5pm
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Book Panel: Book Panel with Professors Marisa Abrajano, Zoltan Hajnal, and Tom Wong
Monday, November 21, 2015 12pm-2pm
Authors: Zoltan Hajnal, Marisa Abrajano, and Tom Wong
Discussant: Louis DeSipio
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Seminar: The European Refugee Crisis
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3pm - 5pm
Presenters: Kathi Anderson, Fatima El-Tayeb, David Murphy, Michael Provence, and Tom K. Wong
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Seminar: From Trans-Migrants to Trans-Borders: Insights From the Comparison of Cross-Border Activities Across Three Categories of Migrants in France
Monday, October 26, 2015 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Mirna Safi, Research Professor, Sciences Po
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Seminar: Urban Community Gardens as Home in the Immigrant Inner-City
Monday, October 19, 2015 12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Professor, USC
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Workshop: CCIS Graduate Student Migration Workshop
Friday, May 15, 2015 8:30am - 4:30pm
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Conference: 6th Annual UC International Migration Conference "Immigrant California: Immigration Policy at Varying Scales"
Friday, February 20, 2015 8am - 5pm
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Conference: 5th Annual UC International Migration Conference "Immigrant Integration in Comparative Perspective"
Friday-Saturday, January 31-February 1, 2014
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Conference: 4th Annual UC International Migration Conference: "We asked for workers and families came: "Children, youth, and families in migration"
Friday, February 22, 2013 8am - 6pm
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Workshop: The Politics of Race and Place
Friday, February 24, 2012
Conference: 3rd Annual UC International Migration Conference "Politics and Governance"
Friday, February 10, 2012 8am - 6pm
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Conference: Ethnicity, Race, & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America & the Caribbean
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Conference: 2nd Annual UC International Migration Conference
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Conference: Population, Integration, and Law: Implications for Immigration Policy
Monday-Tuesday, March 29-30, 2010
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Conference: 1st Annual UC International Migration Conference
Friday, March 12, 2010 8am - 6pm
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Workshop: State and Local Immigration Policy in the U.S.: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Friday, May 9, 2008 8:30am - 5pm
[Workshop Agenda]
