Past Events

Seminar: Manage "On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean"

Friday, November 14, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Authors: Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, and Diego Chaves-González
Discussant: Rubén Hernández-León (Director of the UCLA Latin American Institute and Professor of Sociology)
Location: Via Zoom
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
This CCIS event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Davis Global Migration Center, and UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.

Writing Group: CCIS Biweekly Writing Group

Thursday, November 13, 2025  12:30pm-3:30pm
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
Description: Scholars of migration, refugees, and/or borders will meet for accountability and quiet co-writing time

Seminar: Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare

Friday, November 7, 2025  12:00pm-1:00pm
Author: Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor, Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University
Location: Via Zoom
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
This CCIS event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Davis Global Migration Center, and UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.

Workshop: CCIS Migration Workshop (Papers by Gizem Fesli and Maya Machado)

Thursday, November 6, 2025  12:30pm-2:00pm
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
Description: The group will discuss two works in progress related to migration, refugees, and/or borders: a draft paper and a preliminary idea. Drafts will be circulated one week in advance, and participants are asked to read ahead so the seminar can focus on substantive discussion.

Writing Group: CCIS Biweekly Writing Group

Thursday, October 30, 2025  12:30pm-3:30pm
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
Description: Scholars of migration, refugees, and/or borders will meet for accountability and quiet co-writing time

Conference: First Annual Reimagining Refuge Convening at UC San Diego

Date & Time: Friday, October 17, 2025 & Saturday, October 18, 2025
Not opened to the Public. By invitation only
Location: UCSD
Description: Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures brings together leading UC migration scholars, students, artists and non-profit organizations across California and the US-Mexico border to 1) seed a network of people forging just futures for migrants and 2) conduct an unprecedented, multi-sited, and multi-scalar analysis of the impacts of US treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, by and for California’s im/migrants.

Film Screening: “¿Are We There Yet? A Compassionate Exploration of Contemporary Migration"

Thursday, October 16, 2025  12:30pm-2:30pm
Filmmaker: Thomas Hoebbel
Artist: Orlando Nodarse Hernández
Description: The documentary tackles the complex subject of contemporary immigration in the United States. In the film, immigrants tell their stories and describe the challenges they have faced in the US, against the backdrop of the caustic rhetoric of today's political voices. Filmmaker Thomas Hoebbel and Orlando Nodarse Hernández will speak at this event.
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South, 1st Fl, Conference room 115
This will be an In-person event
No registration required. All are welcomed.
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants' Lives in Mexico City

Thursday, October 9, 2025  12:30pm-2:00pm
Authors: Claudia Masferrer, Associate Professor, Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México
Erin R. Hamilton, Professor of sociology, UC Davis
Nicole Denier, Associate Professor of Sociology, Colby College
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115 & Zoom
This will be hybrid event (In-person & via Zoom)
No registration required for In-person attendance
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]
This CCIS event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Davis Global Migration Center, and UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.

Seminar: Facing Anti-Immigrant Authoritarianism

Friday, October 3, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Panelist: Megan Ybarra, UC San Diego, Cristina Mora, UC Berkeley, Ariana Valle, UC Davis, and Laura Enriquez UC Irvine
Location: Via Zoom
[Event Flyer]
This CCIS event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Davis Global Migration Center, and UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.

Workshop: CCIS Migration Workshop Launch

Thursday, October 2, 2025  12:30pm-2:00pm
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
Description: In this interdisciplinary group, graduate students and faculty share drafts and ideas for work in progress, over a brown bag lunch. Our first meeting will be a planning session, where participants will share feedback on preliminary ideas, get to know one another and sign up for slots for the rest of the year

Workshop: UCSD Borders and Migration Grant Writing Workshop

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 & Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 10am-4pm
This will be an In-person event only
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Bldg, 7th floor. Room PEB721
Description: Tuesday, September 23 (Hybrid)
                             Lightening talks on funding options and best practices for grant-writing
                             Introduction to migration & borders grant database
                             Access to successful proposals
                       Wednesday, September 24
                             Hands-on proposal workshops
                             Feedback sessions with grant writer and writing coach
[Event Flyer]

Workshop: Reimagining Workshop

Date & Time: Tuesday, August 26, 2025,  1pm-2:30pm
Not opened to the public
Location: Zoom
Description: Workshop with Reimagining Reguge Folks

Write-on-site for Migration Scholars

Spring: Weekly, every Wednesday 10am-12pm
Location: RWAC424
For: Graduate Students, Visiting Scholars, Lecturers, and Faculty who study migration
Participants should bring a writing project. First five minutes will entail sharing your writing plans for the session, followed by silent writing
Coffee, tea and snacks provided, or BYO lunch

Conference: UCSD Emerging Scholars of Borders, Displacement & Migration

Friday, May 23, 2025  10:00am-5:00pm
This will be an In-person event only
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Bldg, 7th floor. Room PEB721
Description: This workshop, organized by the UCSD Global Borders Initiative, International Institute, Human Rights and Migration Program, and Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, seeks to create an interdisciplinary space for emerging scholars of borders, displacement, and/or migration to share and receive feedback on their research and get to know one another as well as faculty at UCSD. 

Seminar: State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change

Friday, May 9, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Maria Cristina Garcia, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University
Location: Zoom
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China

Wednesday, May 7, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Jiaqi Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University.
This will be an In-person event only
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South - Conference Room 115
[Event Flyer]

Workshop: Crafting Belonging, Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art

Tuesday, April 29, 2025  12:30pm-2:30pm
This will be an In-person event
Location:  UCSD Craft Center
Description: Workshop for students, faculty, and staff to create artwork reimagining exclusionary migration policies and to share stories through healing methodologies. Further details above under Panel and Walk-through: Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art: A (Re)Writing Migration Stories Exhibit.
[Event Flyer]

Exhibit: Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art: A (Re)Writing Migration Stories Exhibit 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 to Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Location:  UCSD Arts and Humanities Building Lobby

Panel & Walk-Through: Healing & (Re)Building Connection Through Art: A (Re)Writing Migration Stories Exhibit

Tuesday, April 22, 2025  2:00pm-3:30pm
This will be an In-person event
Location:  Social Sciences Public Engagement Building, PEB/RWAC 104
Description: Over the last two years a team at UV Irvine has focused on documenting and (re)writing our migration stories as individuals impacted by exclusionary immigration policies. Drawing on Healing Methodology we investigate the legal violence produced by immigration policies through various forms of art-making such as collaging, collaborative poetry, scrapbooking, among others. We have developed an art exhibit featuring our work; details are available here. Join us to view our art exhibit and reflect together.
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity

Friday, April 18, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Jennifer Van Hook, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
Speaker:  James D. Bachmeier is Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University (Philadelphia)
Location: Zoom
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]

Meeting: Community-Engaged Research Faculty Convening #1

Wednesday, April 16, 2025  2:00pm-4:00pm
This is an In-person event for faculty
Location:  UCSD Price Center Bear Room
Description: We are inviting community-engaged research faculty and champions from across the campus to participate in a series of meetings envisioning the future of community-engaged research at UC San Diego. Our goal is to build a community of practice where we can share and learn from collective expertise, grapple with hard questions, and build a robust community engagement research infrastructure at UCSD.
[Event Flyer]

Write-on-site for Migration Scholars

Winter 2025: Weekly, every Tuesday 12pm-2pm
Location: PEB201
For: Graduate Students, Visiting Scholars, Lecturers, and Faculty who study migration
Participants should bring a writing project. First five minutes will entail sharing your writing plans for the session, followed by silent writing
Coffee, tea and snacks provided, or BYO lunch

Seminar: Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families

Friday, March 14, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Hyeyoung Kwon, Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and Asian American Studies at Indiana University (IU), Bloomington
Discussant: Inmaculada García-Sánchez, Professor of Social Research Methodology and Associate Director, Center for the Study of International Migration, UC Los Angeles
[Event Flyer]

Presentation: Report-Back: Farmworker Futures in the California Border Region

Friday, March 14, 2025  9:00am-11:50am
Presenters: Student researchers from the Mexican Migration Field Research Program
This will be an In-person event only
Location: Social Sciences Public Engagement Bldg, Room PEB104
Open to the public
Sponsored by: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
                           UCSD Labor Center, UC San Diego
                           Mexican Migration Field Research Program, UC San Diego
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Defending Immigrant Communities under Trump

Thursday, February 27, 2025  3:30pm-5:00pm
Featuring: Al Otro Lado, Alliance San Diego, and the American Friends Service Committee
This will be an In-person event only
Location: Great Hall, UCSD
Open to the public
Sponsored by: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
                           US Immigration Policy Center, UC San Diego
[Event Flyer]

Symposium: Displacement and Reparation: Climate, Labor and Migration Justice

Friday, February 7, 2025  9am-9:30pm
Location: 9am-5pm - Seuss Room, Geisel Library
                5:30pm-9:30pm - The Loft, Price Center East
[Event Flyer] 

Seminar: Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Friday, January 31, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Ragini Shah, Clinical Professor of Law, Suffolk University
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]

Seminar: Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System

Friday, January 10, 2025  12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Ulrike Bialas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Discussant: David FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]

Write-on-site for Migration Scholars

Fall 2024: Weekly, every Tuesday 12pm-2pm
Location: ERC Admin Bldg South, CCIS Conference Room 115
For: Graduate Students, Visiting Scholars, and Faculty

Seminar: Latino Roots in Southern Soil

Friday, December 13, 2024  12:00pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Cecilia Márquez, Assistant Professor, Duke University
[Event Flyer] [Seminar Recording]

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] 

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]

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 11^th,  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]

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]

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

Seminar: Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Seminar: Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico

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]

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

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
[Event Flyer]

Conference: Amenazas a los Derechos de las Personas Migrantes en Estados Unidos de America

Thursday, February 28, 2019
[Event Flyer] [Conference Video]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Book Launch:  Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants

Wednesday, January 16, 2019   12pm-1:30pm
Author: Abigail Leslie Andrews
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Migrant Caravan

Thursday, November 29, 2018   4pm-6pm
[Event Flyer]

Conference: Forced Migration: An Interdisciplinary Exchange

Friday, November 16, 2018   9am-5pm
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Beyond the Wall: The Aftermath of Deportation in Mexico

Wednesday, November 14, 2018   6:15pm-8pm
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Crisis?  What Crisis?  The historical roots of Europe's "Refugee Crisis"

Wednesday, November 7, 2018   12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Leo Lucassen
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Conference: 2018 PRIEC Conference

Tuesday, August 7, 2018   10am-5pm
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Paradoxes of Participation:  Oppositional Consciousness and the Challenges of the Collective

Wednesday, May 2, 2018   12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Greg Prieto
[Event Flyer]

Workshop: The California Endowment/ CHIS Immigration Research Workshop

Saturday, March 3, 2018  10:00am-6pm
[Event Flyer]

Conference: 9th Annual UC International Migration Conference“Immigrant California: Policies and Politics”

Friday, March 2, 2018   9am-4:30pm
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: How Italy's Humanitarian Corridors Have Created Pathways to Protection in Europe

Wednesday, February 14, 2018   12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Claire Higgins
[Event Flyer]

Seminary: Intergenerational Relationships among Latino Immigrant Families in Spain: Conflict and Emotional Intimacy

Monday, February 5, 2018   12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Amparo González Ferrer
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Conference: Immigrant Integration and Gateways for Growth: Comparative Perspectives

Monday, November 13, 2017   1pm-5:30pm
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: The Emergence of Korean American Communities on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Monday, October 9, 2017   2pm-3:30pm
Presenter: Minjeong Kim
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: Temporary Legal Statuses and Transformations of the Immigrant Self

Thursday, May 25, 2017  2pm - 3:30pm
Presenter: Cecilia Menjivar
[Event Flyer]

Conference: Human Rights and Migration

Friday, May 19, 2017   10:15am-5:15pm
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Film Screening: The Deportation of Innocence

Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 4:00pm
Film Director: Francisco Alarcòn
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Seminar: The New Immigration Federalism

Monday, February 29, 2016  12pm-1:30pm
Presenter: Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Dean & Professor, UC Riverside
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

Conference: Comparative Responses to Asylum Seeking in Europe, Australia, The U.S., and Middle East

Tuesday, November 30, 2015  9am - 5pm
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer] 

Seminar: Urban Community Gardens as Home in the Immigrant Inner-City

Monday, October 19, 2015  12pm - 1:30pm
Presenter: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Professor, USC
[Event Flyer]

Workshop: CCIS Graduate Student Migration Workshop

Friday, May 15, 2015  8:30am - 4:30pm
[Event Flyer]

Conference: 6th Annual UC International Migration Conference "Immigrant California: Immigration Policy at Varying Scales"

Friday, February 20, 2015  8am - 5pm
[Event Flyer]

Conference: 5th Annual UC International Migration Conference "Immigrant Integration in Comparative Perspective"

Friday-Saturday, January 31-February 1, 2014 
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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
[Event Flyer]

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 
[Event Flyer]

Conference: 1st Annual UC International Migration Conference

Friday, March 12, 2010  8am - 6pm
[Event Flyer]

Workshop: State and Local Immigration Policy in the U.S.:  An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Friday, May 9, 2008  8:30am - 5pm
[Workshop Agenda]