Summer Workshop on Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the U.S.

June 25-July 6, 2007
University of Manchester, UK

Monday June 25

Mary C. Waters, Harvard University: Immigration to the US and Changing Demographics

Background Readings

• Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers
• History of Immigration Legislation
• Unions between Blacks and Whites
• Assessing Immigrant Assimilation

Powerpoint Presentation

• U.S. Immigration and Diversity

Steve Vertovec: New Complexities of Cohesion in the UK

Background Readings

• Super Diversity and its Implications
• Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
• New Complexities of Cohesion in Britain: Super Diversity, Transnationalism and Civil Integration

Powerpoint Presentation

• New Complexities of Cohesion in Britain

Tuesday June 26

Race, immigration and the color line

Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University: The Implications of Immigration for the American Racial Order

Background Readings

• Unstable Racial Boundaries?

Powerpoint Presentation

• Unstable Racial Boundaries? Skin Color, Immigration, Multiracialism, DNA, and U.S. Racial Hierarchy

Lawrence Brown, University of Manchester: Race and Identity in Caribbean Migration: Comparative Perspectives

Background Readings

• Pride and Prejudice
• Afro-Caribbean Migrants in France and the United Kingdom
• Evolving Jamaican Migrant Identities

Powerpoint Presentation

• Race and Identity in Caribbean Migration: Comparative Perspectives

Wednesday, June 27

Immigrant Incorporation, Multiculturalism, and Race

Tariq Modood, University of Bristol: Multiculturalism

Background Readings

• The Retreat of Multiculturalism in the Liberal State: Theory and Policy
• The Danish Cartoon Affair: Free Speech, Racism, Islamism, and Integration
• Multiculturalism, Citizenship and National Identity

Powerpoint Presentation

• Is Multiculturalism Appropriate for the 21st Century?

Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University: Pathways Toward Immigrant Political Incorporation in the US

Background Readings

• Race-Based Coalitions among Minority Groups
• Losing the Battle: How Political Activism Guarantees Ethnic Integration pp. 139-153

Powerpoint Presentation

• Pathways to Immigrant Political Incorporation – In Search of a Model

Thursday June 28

Immigration and Politics

Claudine Gay, Harvard University: Black-Latino Relations in the US : Identifying the Material Roots of Intergroup Conflict

Background Readings

• Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants' Views of Black Americans

Powerpoint Presentation

• Black-Latino Relations in the US : Identifying the Material Roots of Intergroup Conflict

Virinder S. Kalra, University of Manchester: Segregration, Governance and Cohesion

Powerpoint Presentation

• Governance and Cohesion

Friday June 29

Social Capital and Immigration

Robert Putnam, Harvard University: E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century

Powerpoint Presentation

• E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century

Yaojun Li, University of Manchester: Social Capital and Immigration in Britain

Background Readings

• Social Capital and Social Trust in Britain
• New Forms of Political Participation
• Social Capital and Social Exclusion

Powerpoint Presentation

• Social Capital and Immigration in Britain

Monday July 2

Immigration and Urban Life

Robert Sampson, Harvard University:

Background Readings

• Surprising Social Factors Linked to Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Youth Violence If link does not work, cut and paste this url into your browser http://www.prb.org/Articles/2005/SurprisingSocialFactorsLinkedtoRacialandEthnicDisparitiesinYouthViolenceintheUS.aspx
• Do Immigrants Make us Safer?
• Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality

Powerpoint Presentation

• Diversity and Immigration: Implications for the Social Life of Changing Cities

Anthony Heath, Oxford University

Powerpoint Presentation

• Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets

Tuesday July 3

Segregation and Immigration

Ludi Simpson, University of Manchester: Myths of Segregation in the UK

Background Readings

• Statistics of Racial Segregation
• Ethnic Minority Populations and the Labor Market
• Ghettos of the Mind

Powerpoint Presentation

• Debates on Segregation, Diversity and Integration

Ceri Peach, Oxford University: Britain is sleepwalking into American Ghettoisation: Really?

• After 7/7: Sleepwalking to Segregation
• The New Geography of Ethnicity in Britian?
• Does Britain Have Ghettos?

Powerpoint Presentation

• "Britain is sleepwalking into American Ghettoisation": Really ?

Wednesday July 4

Europe/US Immigration and Incorporation

Richard Alba, Albany: Social Boundaries in Europe and North America

Powerpoint Presentation

• Native-Immigrant Boundaries and Ethnic Inequalities in North America and Western Europe

Ken Clark, University of Manchester: Segregation, Preferences and Employment

Background Readings

• Segregation Preferences and Labor Market Outcomes
• Enclaves, Neigborhood Effects and Employment Outcomes

Powerpoint Presentation

• Segregation, Preferences and Labour Market Outcomes

Thursday July 5

Europe/US Immigration and Incorporation

Douglas Massey, Princeton University: Racialization of Latinos

Background Readings

• International Migration in a Globalizing Economy
• The Cost of Contradiction: US Border Policty 1986-2000
• Linguistic Life Expectancies

Powerpoint Presentation

• Understanding America's Immigration Crisis
• Racialization of Mexicans in the United States

Michael Jones Correa, Cornell University: Immigrant Political Incorporation

Background Readings

• Latino National Survey: Partial Toplines
• Redefining America: Findings from the 2006 Latino National Survey
• Contextual Variation in Latino Political Life
• Coming to America: Latinos and the Adoption of Identity

Powerpoint Presentation

• Exploring the Roles of Networks and Context in Immigrant Socialization through the Latino National Survey

Friday July 6

Politics of Incorporation

James Nazroo, University of Manchester: Understanding Ethnic Inequalities in Health: The Importance of Theory

Background Readings

• The Structuring of Ethnic Inequalities in Health
• The Black Diaspora and Health Inequalities in the US and England
• The Social Determination of Ethnic/Racial Inequalities in Health

Powerpoint Presentation

• Understanding Ethnic Inequalities in Health

Ed Fieldhouse, University of Manchester: Diversity, Concentration and Voter Turnout in Britain

Background Readings

• Diversity, Density and Turnout: The Effect of Neighbourhood Ethno-Religious Composition on Voter Turnout in Britain
• Racial Segregation and Voter Turnout in Urban America
• Mobilisation or Marginalisation? Neighbourhood Effects on Muslim Electoral Registration in Britain in 2001

Powerpoint Presentation

• Diversity, Density and Turnout: The Effect of Neighbourhood Ethno-Religious Composition on Voter Turnout in Britain