Upcoming
Events:
For Fall 2009 Schedule and any further information, please visit our blog at:
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/immigration/
Thank you!
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Previous
Events:
May 19, 2009
Irma M. Olmedo, Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago.
“Si Se Puede: Teachers Address Immigrant Rights’ Mobilizations in Their Classrooms.”
May 7, 2009
Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law and Asian American Studies, University of California in Davis.
"ICE Raids and Immigration Policy."
(co-sponsored with Workshop for Race and Racial Ideologies and Human Rights Workshop)
May 5, 2009
Wook-Jin Kim, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.
"Resource Utilization of Immigrant Businesses Leaving Inner-City Minority Neighborhoods: The Case of Korean Immigrant Businesses on the Chicago South Side."
April 21, 2009
Roger Waldinger, Professor of Sociology, University of California in Los Angeles.
"Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections: A Research Agenda."
(co-sponsored with the Social Theory and Evidence Workshop)
April 7, 2009
Adam Cox, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
"The Rights of Migrants" (co-authored with Eric A. Posner)
March 10, 2009
Annika M. Hinze, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Comparative Politics, Urban Politics, University of Illinois at Chicago.
"Re-defining the Gap: The Islam-Secularism Divide Within The Turkish Immigrant Community in Berlin, Germany."
February 24, 2009
Rebecca Vonderlack-Navarro, Ph. D. Candidate, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.
“Immigrant Social Movements and Political Incorporation: Lessons from Chicago’s Mexican Immigrant Hometown Association Leadership Coalition.”
February 10, 2009
Benjamin Roth, Ph. D. Candidate in Social Welfare Policy, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.
“Mexican Immigrants and Local Institutions: Overcoming Barriers to Integration Outside the Enclave.”
January 27, 2009
Anthony Orum, Professor of Sociology, and Kiljoong Kim, Graduate student in Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago.
“Creating Community: First-Generation Immigrants in Chicago Today.”
January 13, 2009
R. Stephen Warner, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago.
“Race and Religion in the American Republic.”
December 2, 2008
Maria Medvedeva, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
“Linguistic Adaptation among Children of Immigrants: The Analysis of the Relationship between Language Preferences and Language Proficiency.”
November 18, 2008
David Lubin, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
"From Bohemian to Brown: Global Migration and the Changing Complexion of a Chicago Suburb"
November 4, 2008
Andrea Althoff, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Divinity School.
"Divided by Faith, Ethnicity, and Politics? Latinos' Ethnic-Religious Identities, Immigration and the Upcoming Presidential Elections"
October 22, 2008
John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Sciences and Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center and the Director of the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY. Urban search
"Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age."
October 7, 2008
Steve Song and Dorren McMahon, Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland.
"Immigrant Student Education in Ireland and the Emergence of Segregated Schooling."
May 14, 2008:
Giovanni Semi, Lecturer in Sociology of Culture at the Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Milan, Italy.
"The Symbolic Economy of Ethnicity: Consuming Moroccan Culture in Turin’s Gentrified Inner-City"
May 28, 2008:
Jacob Hickman, Ph. D. Student, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago.
“Migrating East and West: Morality and Personhood among Hmong in the United States and Thailand.”
April 30, 2008:
Lauren Duquette, Ph. D. Student, Department of Political Sciences, University of Chicago
“Migrant Collective Remittances: Transforming Public Goods and Local Democratic Governance in Mexico.”
April 16, 2008:
James Iveniuk, Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago.
“Borderlanders: Reclassification and Ukrainian-Canadian Surname Changes.”
April 7, 2008 (Monday)
NOTE: NEW TIME AND LOCATION!
"Is Chicago an Outlier? Organizational Density in Poor Urban Neighborhoods"
by Professor Mario Small, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago (co-authored with Jessica Feldman).
"From Communities to Scenes: New Perspectives on Chicago Sociology" by Professor Terry N. Clark, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
March 6, 2008:
(NOTE: NEW TIME AND LOCATION!)
Patrick Simon, Director of research at INED (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques National
demographic institute), France.
“Beyond Assimilation: The Second Generation Debate in France.”
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February 20, 2008:
Adam Cox, Assistant Professor of Law, the University of Chicago Law School
"Selection and Regulation in Immigration Law."
Details >>
February 5, 2008, 12 noon:
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Harvard University
"God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape."
Details >>
January 23, 2008:
Woody Carter, Lecturer in Public Policy in the College, the University of Chicago
"
Avoidance".
Details >>
January 9, 2008:
Maria Medvedeva, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, the University
of Chicago.
"Family Context and Change in English and non-English Language Proficiency among
Children of Immigrants in the United States.” Details >>
December 5, 2007:
Marcello Sorce Keller, Visiting Professor, Department of Music, University of
Chicago.
"
Transplanting Multiculturalism: Swiss Musical Traditions Reconfigured in Melbourne,
Australia."
Details >>
November
21, 2007:
Virginia Parks, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration,
University of Chicago.
“
Competition or Coexistence in Chicago? The Significance of Gender in the Black-Immigrant
Employment Debate.”
Details >>
November 7, 2007:
P Rafael Hernandez-Arias, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, DePaul
University.
"Immigrants' Health Outcomes: Acculturation, Assimilation, Structural and Post-Structural."
Details >>
October 24, 2007:
Jennifer Tello Buntin, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University
of Chicago.
“
Transnational Suburbs? Transnationalizing Community Institutions at the Urban
Edge.”
Details >>
October 10, 2007:
Andrea Althoff, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Divinity School.
"
Immigration and the Transformation of Latino Religious Identities in the US."
Details >>
September 26, 2007:
Richard Greene, Associate Professor of Geography, Northern Illinois University.
"
New Immigrant Geographies in Chicago Land: Urban Core and Edge City Comparisons:
An Update."
Details >>
May 23, 2007
Jennifer Tello Buntin, Ph. D. Candidate from the Department of Sociology, the University of Chicago.
Mexican Immigrants Transforming the Urban Edge: Suburban Schools as Contested Sites for Transnational Connections
Details >>
May 17, 2007
Jennifer Lee, the University of Chicago Visiting Associate Professor for the
2006 - 2007 year and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at
the University of California, Irvine
May 9, 2007
Noe Chavez, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Acculturation and Socialization in Mexican Descent Families: An Ecological Analysis"
Details >>
April 25, 2007
Field Research in Public Policy Class, University of Chicago
"The Coming Crisis in Citizenship."
Details >>
April 11, 2007
Chi-Chen Chiang, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
"Transnational Citizenship: Taiwanese American Activism in US Electoral Politics"
Details >>
March 28, 2007
Maria Medvedeva, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
"Social and Psychological Explanations of Language Shift among Children of Immigrants
in the United States"
Details >>
March 7, 2007
Amber Cooper, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Latina/o Immigrant Workers in the Suburbs: Negotiating Workplace Expectations through Ideology and Socioeconomic Structure'
Details >>
February 7, 2007
Barry R. Chiswick, UIC Distinguished Professor, Research Professor and Head of
the Department of Economics, Director of the UIC Center for Economic Education.
"Computer Usage, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives
and Immigrants"
Details >>
January
25, 2007
Arthur Stinchcombe, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
"Careers and South African White Literate Bilingualism"
Details >>
January 10, 2007
Richard Greene, Associate Professor of Geography, Northern Illinois University
“New Immigrant Geographies in Chicago Land: Urban Core and Edge City Comparisons”
Details >>
November 20, 2006
Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, International Coordinator of the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project and
Dan Silver, Committee on Social Thought, Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago
“From Class and Individualism to Neighborhoods, Communities, and Scenes: A New Framework for Migration Analysis“
Details >>
November 6, 2006
Elena Obukhova, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Building China's Silicon Valley: High-Skilled Migrants and Technological Development“
Details >>
October 23, 2006
Rob Paral, Research Fellow with the American Immigration Law Foundation in Washington,
DC, and with the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame University.
"Immigrants Who Leave: Policy Implications of Emigration from Illinois"
Details >>
October 2, 2006
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago,
UIC's Immigrant Mobilization Project
“Marching for Immigrant Rights: Some Preliminary Results of the Chicago Mobilizations”
July 24, 2006
Jennifer Rogla, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences University of Chicago
"Language Policy and Economic Mobility in the United States: The Battle Over a Right to Multilingualism"
June 11, 2006
Anthony Orum, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Editor of City & Community
“Migrants, Rights and States.”
May 24, 2006
Organizational Meeting, Introduction
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