Race, Ethnicity and Immigration

2014 Apr 15

Filiz Garip - Crossing Paths: The Diversity in Mexico-US Migration

4:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room

Presentation by Filiz Garip (Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University)sponsored by the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Instituto Cervantes en Harvard (Observatorio), the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Harvard Latina/o Student Alliance.

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Toward a New Science of the City

Toward a New Science of the City

February 18, 2014

In recent years, many public and private institutions in cities have begun to collect large-scale electronic records on a wide range of behaviors and patterns of communication.  The advent of what some call “big data” provides a new set of opportunities to paint a comprehensive picture of cities, which has the potential to transform theoretical models of urban governance and social behavior.

Robert J. Sampson (Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences) is Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Science...

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2014 Apr 24

Justin Gest - Double Edged: Immigrant Political Incorporation Policies and Outcomes in 10 European Countries

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall 1550

Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation by Justin Gest, Lecturer on Government and Sociology at Harvard University

Discussant:  Jessica Tollette, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University

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2014 Mar 27

Jillian Powers - Becoming Worldly by Discovering Heritage: Creating Global Cosmopolitans on Diasporic Homeland Tours

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall 1550

Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation by Jillian Powers, Florence Kay Fellow in Immigration and American Society at Brandies

Discussant: Robert Vargas, Robert Wood Johnson Health Society Scholar at Harvard University

**NOTE ROOM HAS CHANGE TO WJH 1550**

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2014 Feb 20
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2014 Apr 10

Ben A. Rissing - 'To H-1B or Not to H-1B?' Social Closure and Inequality in Immigrant Work Visa Approvals

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall 1550

Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation by Ben A. Rissing, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies

Discussant: Yun Zhou, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Harvard University

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2014 Feb 06

Robert Vargas & Phil McHarris - The Social Structure of Mass Deportation: Immigration and the Growth of City Police Expenditures, 1980-2010

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

WIlliam James Hall 601

Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation by Robert Vargas, Robert Wood Johnson Health Society Scholar at Harvard University, and Phil McHarris, Boston College.

Discussant: Ben A. Rissing, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies

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SOC 3309 Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop

Members of the Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation workshop share a common interest in international migration and the incorporation of immigrants into host societies. This broad topic includes questions of race and the integration of the second generation (the children of immigrants). While the majority of participants focus on the United States, the workshop includes and is open to researchers studying other immigrant-receiving countries. The primary purpose of the workshop is to circulate works-in-progress in order to elicit feedback and suggestions for improving scholarly...

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