UCLA Speaker Series on Migration

October 2nd, 2007 by admin | Posted in Announcement |

[KR: Posting sent by Roger Waldinger, Sociology, UCLA]

UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
All meetings on Fridays, 12-1:30, Haines 279

For more information: contact Roger Waldinger (waldinge at soc.ucla.edu)

Fall 2007:

October 5: Author Meets Critics Session: Author, Hiroshi Motomura (visiting Prof UCLA Law School), Americans in Waiting; critics: Karen Orren (Political Science); Roger Waldinger (Sociology)

October 19: Vikki Katz, Annenberg School, USC, “”Making the connection: What immigrant children do for their families and how it matters”

November 2: Leo Morales, Public Health and Internal Medicine, UCLA, “Second Generational Decline in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Fact or Fiction?

November 16: Jean Phinney, Department of Psychology, Cal State-LA: “Variation in the Immigrant Experience: Individual, Ethnic Group, and Societal Differences across 13 Countries”

November 30: Ron Gallimore (GSEIS, UCLA) and Estela Zarate, Education, UCI: “Lessons from the Latino Home-School Project”

Winter 2008:

January 11, Katherine Donato, Sociology, Vanderbilt (joint with California Center for Population Research)

January 25: All-day workshop on Central American migration with Sociology and Political Science graduate students; Susan Coutin (Criminology, Law, and Society), UCI; Abelardo Morales, FLACSO-Costa Rica,

February 8: Daniel Tichenor, Political Science, Rutgers (joint with Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Politics): “Immigration and the American Labor Movement”

February 22: Max Neiman, Public Policy Institute of California: TBA

March 5 (Wednesday): Sara Curran, Evans School of Public Affairs, U of Washington (March 7), co-sponsored with CCPR

Spring 2008:

April 4: Robert Crosnoe, Sociology, Texas-Austin

April 18: Maurice Crul, IMES, U of Amsterdam, co-sponsored with CCPR and Center for European and Eurasian Studies

May 2: Jeff Cohen, Anthropology, Ohio State

May 16: Reuel Rogers, Political Science, Northwestern (joint with Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)

May 30: Claire Jean Kim, Political Science and Asian American Studies, UCI

Additional event:

9th-11th May: International Migration, Trafficking, and Regional Integration: Borders, Flows and Control in Comparative Perspective (organized by Adrian Favell and Center for European and Eurasian Studies).