Upcoming Events

CCIS In-Person Events

Film Screening: Saffron Kingdom

Join us for a special film screening and community discussion of Saffron Kingdom on Thursday, April 9th, from 3:00pm to 6:30pm in the Dolores Huerta Room (Student Center B) (2024). Directed by Arfat Sheikh, the film is an exploration of the impacts of the Kashmir conflict, told through the journey of a family from Srinagar to Atlanta, highlighting themes of trauma, identity, and resilience. RSVP here.

Nicaraguan Exiles: Searching for Asylum against the Violent Contours of Displacement

Join us in PEB 721 on Monday, April 13th, for discussion from 1:30-3:30pm and coffee hour from 4-5pm. This research presentation explores the lived experiences of Nicaraguan asylum seekers in the US against the backdrop of political violence, survival, and exile. Dr. Dietrich Rivera contextualizes these asylum-seeking narratives within the oppressive regime of Ortega-Murillo (ORMU), illuminating how individuals who have endured state repression, displacement, and forced migration comprehend their circumstances.

CCIS migration workshop (Papers TBD)

Date: Thursday, April 16th, 12:30-2pm

Location: In person, CCIS Conference Room (ERC 115)

Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality

Join us on Thursday, April 30th, from 12:30pm-2pm in SSB 101 for a discussion with Irene Vega on her book: Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality. Irene Vega will draw on interviews with ninety immigration agents to examine the institutional production of indifference in the U.S. immigration enforcement system. She argues that indifference, understood most simply as apathy or detachment, is both a taught bureaucratic strategy that agents use to look away from the most conflicting aspects of their work, as well as a major product of their efforts to cultivate a moral sense of self.

CCIS & UC Zoom Book Talks

All Zoom book talks are hosted in partnership with the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, UC Davis Global Migration Center, and UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration

Friday, April 3rd, 12:00-1:15pm

llegality in the Heartland: Latinidad, Indigeneity, and Immigration Policies during Times of Hate

Andrea Gomez Cervantes, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Join us to learn more about Dr. Gómez Cervantes' ethnographic understanding of illegality, racialization, and belonging.

[Zoom Link] [Link to Flyer]

Friday, May 22nd, 12:00pm

Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento

Join us on Friday, May 22nd at 12:00pm (PST) for a Virtual Book Talk with Paolo Boccagni on Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance where Boccagni explores the struggles of Italian asylum seekers through ethnographic research.

[Zoom link and flyer forthcoming]

Immigration-Related Events on Campus

USMEX Fellow Seminars

Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the GPS Dean’s Conference Room and on Zoom:

April 1, 2026: María Cervantes: Localizing NAFTA: urban governance and border city transformations in North America.
April 8, 2026: Katrina Burgess: Why do they keep coming? The hopes and fears of U.S.-bound migrants.
May 14, 2026: José E. Múzquiz: Latino politics in flux: the evolution of Latino voter consistency in the U.S.