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Immigration Politics and Policy Seminar
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Organizers:
Rodolfo O. de la Garza
Professor of Political Science, SIPA
Funded by the SIPA/Leitner Fund for Faculty Research
Fall 2006
November 9
“Asian Pride or Ambiguous Identities: Immigration Policy and the Construction of Racial Political Identity”
Lecturer: Jane Junn- Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Director of the Association of American Universities (AAU) project, and Director of Assessing Quality in University Education and Research (AQUER).
Discussant: Josh De Wind- Director of the International Migration Program of the Social Science Research Council
Thursday, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Picker Center Conference Room
International Affairs Building, 4th Floor
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
November 17
“Immigrants and Local Governance: Findings from a 300- city survey in California”
Lecturer: Karthick Ramkkrishnan- Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California Riverside
Discussant: Louis Desipio
“Civic Bequests: Immigrant Parental Status and the Political Behaviors and Attitudes of Second Generation Latinos in Los Angeles”
Lecturer: Louis Desipio- Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine, Associate Professor of Chicano/ Latino Studies at the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine and Chair of Chicano/ Latino Studies at UC Irvine
Discussant: Karthick Ramkkrishnan
Friday, 11:00am-2:00pm
1510 Conference Room
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
December 1
"Immigration in a Sun-Belt City: Dallas-Fort Worth and the New America"
Lecturer: James Hollifield-Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, and Director of the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University
Immigrants, Markets and Rights: The US as an Emerging Migration State*
Discussant: Rudy De la Garza
“Beyond Networks and Economics: State Policy and Political Migration”
Lecturer: Rudy de la Garza- Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science in the Political Science Department at Columbia University, Deputy Chair of the Department of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and he is affiliated with the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute
Discussant: James Hollifield
Friday, 11:00am- 2:00pm
1512 Conference Room
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
December 7
"International Movements in the 21st Century: Implications for Integration Policies"
Lecturer: Ari Zolberg- Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University in New York City and director of its International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
Discussant: Jan Junn- Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Director of the Association of American Universities (AAU) project, and Director of Assessing Quality in University Education and Research (AQUER).
Thursday, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Picker Center Conference Room
International Affairs Building, 4th Floor
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
December 8
“Towards a Global Migration Regime?: Lessons of the UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development”
Lecturer: Susan Martin- Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and directs the Certificate Program in the Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies
Discussant: Ari Zolberg- Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University in New York City and director of its International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
Friday, 11:00am-2:00pm
1512 Conference Room
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027