Events

Alongside developing innovative research, CCIS endeavors to develop greater public engagement with migration studies through comprehensive outreach and education. CCIS has frequently hosted migration workshops and conferences, and has maintained a longstanding research seminar series. Open to the campus and the general public, the series continues to provide the opportunity for Visiting Fellows, Guest Scholars, UCSD faculty, and outside guest speakers to present and receive feedback on their most recent work.

CCIS In-Person Events

Art and Advocacy: Deported U.S. Veteran Voices at the US-Mexico Border, Dr. Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana in Conversation with local Advocacy Groups

Date: Thursday, February 19, 12:30-2:00pm

Location: PEB 104

Description: The words “deported” and “veteran” should not go together. Unfortunately, over the past 30 years, the U.S. has deported its own to their countries of origin all over the world. Dr. De La Cruz Santana’s work represents deported veteran diaspora in an artfully poignant form of storytelling.

[Link to Flyer]

Gerardo Rodríguez Solís, Fair-Trade Agrarian Carceral Geographies: Captivity, Migrant Labor, and Transnational Agribusiness in Northwest Mexico: With CCIS and NSP (Nature, Space, and Politics)

Date: Thursday, Feb 26, 12pm to 2pm

Sponsor: UCSD Anthropology (co-sponsored by CCIS)

Location: ERC 115

[Link to Flyer]

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, February 20, 12:00-1:30pm

Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy

By Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA

[Link to Flyer] [Zoom Link]

Wednesday, March 11, 12:00-1:30pm

Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement

By Molly Fee, University of South Florida

[Zoom Link and Flyer forthcoming]

Immigration-Related Events on Campus

Friday, March 6, 9:00am-5:00pm

Project 2026: Chicanx Latinx Studies for Right now: A One-Day Symposium at UCSD

Guests include: Dr. Kency Cornejo (UCLA), Dr. Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz (UCB), Dr. Richard Rodríguez (UCR), Dr. Zulema Valdez (UCM), Dr. Susy Zepeda (UCD) and others TBA

Date: Friday, March 6, 9:00am-5:00pm

Sponsor: UCSD Latin American Studies, UCSD Institute of Arts and Humanities, UCHRI

Location: PEB 721 (Also known as RWAC 721)

RSVP: Full Schedule & RSVP link coming soon

Jesús Villa: Necroatravesados: An ethnography of forensic environments in the borderlands amid mass migrant deaths

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 10:30am-12:00pm

Sponsor: UCSD Center for US-Mexican Studies

Location: Dean's Conference Room, UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy

RSVP: Open to the public