Summer Workshop on Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the U.S. June 9-June 20, 2008
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| Schedule as of June 3, 2008 | |
| Monday June 9 | |
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| Morning | |
| 9.00-10.45 | Introductions |
| 10.45-11.00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.45 | Mary C. Waters |
| US Immigration and Assimilation | |
| 12.45 – 1.45 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | |
| 1:45 | Coach to pick up at Moorside Grange and take to Manchester |
| 2.30- 4.30 | Faculty: SCHMI Board Meeting |
| 2.30 – 4.00 | Students: Basic Walking Tour of Manchester Starts at St. Peter's Square, Manchester Nick Shryane will accompany students to meeting place |
| Early Evening | |
| 5.00-7.00 | Rob Sampson |
| Disparity and Diversity in the City: Implications for Well Being Samuel Alexander Building, Room A101 | |
| 7.15 | Dinner at Tai Pan Restaurant, Upper Brook St, Manchester |
| 10.00pm | Coach back to hotel |
| Tuesday June 10 | |
| Morning | |
| 9.30-10.45 | Virinder Kalra |
| Immigration and Racism | |
| 10.45-11.00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 11.00-12.15 | Ceri Peach |
| “British Immigration, 1948-2008” | |
| 12.15-1.15 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | |
| 1.15-2.15 | Eva Rosen |
| Perceptions of Disorder and Crime in a Multiethnic Neighborhood: Brownsville, Brooklyn | |
| Comments: Ceri Peach | |
| 2.15-3.15 | Christopher Bail |
| Distortion of Collective Memory of Terrorism in the U.S. and U.K | |
| Comments: Virinder Kalra | |
| 3.15-3.30 | Tea and coffee break |
| Katherine Jones | |
| Recruiting Migrant Workers: The Role of Temporary Staffing Agencies in Facilitating Migration from A8 Countries into the UK | |
| Comments: Mary Waters | |
| 7:30 |
Dinner at hotel |
| Wednesday June 11 | |
| Morning | |
| 9.30-10.45 | Steve Vertovec |
| Conceiving and Researching Diversity | |
| 10.45-11.00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 11.00 – 12.15 | Ed Fieldhouse |
| Social Capital and Neighborhood Composition in the UK: Does diversity damage social capital? | |
| 12.15-1.15 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | |
| 1.15-2.15 | Aleksandra Lewicki |
| Revising Conceptions of Democratic Equality and Inclusion: The Accommodation of Muslims in Germany and the United Kingdom | |
| Comments: Steve Vertovec | |
| 2.15-3.15 | Tim Reeskens |
| Integration Regimes and Social Cohesion in Europe: An Explorative Multilevel Test of Migrant Integration Policies on Generalized Trust in 19 Countries | |
| Comments: Ed Fieldhouse | |
| 3.15-3.30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 3.30-4.30 | Laura Lopez-Sanders |
| Is Brown the New Black: Latino Immigration and Native Labor Replacement in the Contemporary South | |
| Comments: Mary Waters | |
7:30 |
Dinner at hotel |
| Thursday June 12 | |
| 11.45 | Pick up at Moorside Grange hotel to travel to Manchester |
| 12.30 | Lunch in Tabak Restaurant, 199 - 201 Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, M14 5AQ |
| 2.30-4.30 | Meet members of MCCR (http://www.mccr.org.uk/Public/index.htm) |
| 4.45 | Travel back to Manchester University for evening lecture |
| 5.30 | Reception, Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Professor Robert Putnam, University Place, Oxford Rd |
| 6.15 | Lecture |
| 7.30-10.30 | Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture Dinner, Whitworth Hall, Oxford Rd, University of Manchester. |
| 10.30 | Pick up to travel back to hotel. |
| Friday June 13 | |
| Morning | |
| 9.30-10.45 | Will Cook, Home Office/Cabinet Office Strategy Unit |
| 10.45-11.00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 11-12.15 | Richard Alba |
| Boundaries: Why they matter and how they change | |
| 12.15-1.15 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | |
| 1.15-2.15 | Arturo Eseva Aguilar |
| 'Stayers' and 'Returners': Selection of Mexican Migrants Returning from the U.S. | |
| Comments: Richard Alba | |
| 2.15-3.15 | Ian Warren |
| An Ecological Study of Violence in Greater Manchester: The Relevance or Not of Race and Ethnicity | |
| Comments: Richard Alba | |
| 3.15-3.30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 3.30-4.30 | Jim Laurence |
| The Effect of Diversity and Community Disadvantage on Social Cohesion: A Multi-level Study of U.K. Communities | |
| Comments: Bob Putnam | |
7:30 |
Dinner at hotel |
| Saturday June 14 | |
| Morning | |
| 9.30-10.30 | Giuseppe Scotto |
| Social Capital and the Political Integration of Migrants: A Study on the Italian Collectivity In London | |
| Comments: Bob Putnam | |
| 10.30-10.45 | Tea and coffee break |
| 10:45-11;45 | Amanda Garrett |
| The Impact of Skill-Formation Structures on Immigrant Welfare | |
| Comments: Ed Fieldhouse | |
| Afternoon | |
| Optional guided hiking tour of the Peak District | |
7:30 |
Dinner at hotel |
| Sunday June 15 | |
| Morning | |
| We will be joined by a few of the members of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Group on Social Interactions, Identity and Well Being. In the morning we will learn about the fields of well being and economics and identity. | |
| 9.00-10.15 | John Helliwell and Rafael DiTella |
| Well Being | |
| 10.15-10:30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 10:30-12.00 | George Akerlof |
| Economics and Identity | |
| 12.00-1.00 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Jennifer Hochschild |
| The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States | |
| 2.00-3.00 | Natasha Warikoo |
| Conducting Cross-National Comparative Research on the Immigrant Second Generation | |
| 3.00-3.15 | Tea and coffee break |
| 3.15-4.15 | Jeffrey Napierela |
| The Impacts of Post-September 11th Discrimination on Middle Eastern Immigrants | |
| Comments: Jennifer Hochschild | |
| 4.15-5.15 | Mai Phan |
| The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 and Immigration: Understanding the Paradoxes of Institutional Change in Britain | |
| Comments Natasha Warikoo | |
7:30 |
Dinner at hotel |
| Monday June 16 | |
| Joint SCHMI and CIFAR Meeting | |
| Identity and Integration | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Richard Alba |
| Non Zero Sum Mobility, Identity and Immigrant Integration | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee and Tea |
| 10:15-11:15 | James Nazroo |
| Being a Muslim in Europe: Attitudes and Experiences | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Karen Phalet |
| Religion and the Integration of Second-Generation Muslims in Europe | |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Natasha Warikoo |
| Balancing Acts: Youth Culture among Children of Immigrants in New York and London | |
| 2:30-3:15 | Discussant: Jennifer Hochschild |
| 3:15-3:30 | Coffee and Tea |
| 3:30-5:30 | Discussion of the Day’s Presentations and Identity and Well Being |
| Discussants: John Helliwell | |
| Chris Barrington-Lee | |
| Heifang Huang | |
| Dinner at the Hotel | |
| Tuesday June 17 | |
| Economic Incorporation | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Maurice Crul |
| The Turks in Europe. Do the national integration contexts shape Turkish communities differently across Europe? | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee and Tea |
| 10:15-11:15 | Anthony Heath |
| Cohort, Life Cycle and Ethnic Minorities in Britain | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Ceri Peach |
| Muslim Population of Britain: Gender and Disadvantage | |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Nicole Fortin |
| The Economic Integration of Immigrants | |
| 2:30-2:45 | Coffee and Tea |
| 2:45-4:15 | Roundtable Discussion on Diversity, Trust and Community |
| Robert Putnam, Irene Bloemraad, John Helliwell, Ed Fieldhouse, Hafang Huang, Chris Barrington-Lee, Anthony Heath, James Lawrence. | |
| 4:15-5:30 | Concluding Session: Immigration and Well Being |
| John Helliwell, George Akerlof, Robert Putnam, Mary Waters | |
7:30 |
Dinner at the Hotel |
| Wednesday June 18 | |
| Morning | |
| 9.00-10.15 | Jeffrey Reitz |
| “Religion, Religiosity and the Social Integration of Immigrant Ethnic Groups in Canada” | |
| 10.15-10.30 | Tea and coffee break |
| 10.30-11.45 | Maurice Crul |
| The thin line between success and failure. The second generation in the Netherlands | |
| 11.45-1.00 | Richard Freeman |
| Immigration of the "best and brightest": international students and university graduates. | |
| 1.00-1:45 | Lunch |
| Afternoon | |
| 1.45-2.45 | Robert Ford |
| Not All Immigrants are Equal: Evidence of an Ethnic Hierarchy in British Immigration Preferences | |
| Comments: Jeff Reitz | |
| 2.45-3.45 | Akasemi Newsome |
| Successful Regions, Successful Immigrants? Are Economic Gains in Europe's Successful Regions Distributed to Immigrants? | |
| Comments: Richard Freeman | |
| 3.45-4.00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Maria Rendon |
| Mexican-Origin Families in High Poverty Contexts Strengths and Vulnerabilities | |
| Comments: Maurice Crul | |
| 7:30 | Dinner at hotel |
| Thursday June 19 | |
| Morning | |
| 9.00-10:00 | Nina Glick Schiller |
| Immigrant Local and Transnational Incorporation Without the Ethnic Lens: Questions of Locality and Multiple Pathways | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Leah Muse-Orlinoff |
| Un Pueblo Unido, Un Pueblo Dividido:Emigrant Local Citizenship in Two Oaxacan Communities | |
| Comments: Nina Glick Schiller | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Tea and Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:45 | Irene Boemraad |
| Do Immigrants Hurt Civic and Political Engagement? The Conditional Effects of Immigrant Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 19 Countries, 1981-2000 | |
| 12:45-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Erica Dobbs |
| Exiting with Voice? International Migration and Domestic Politics | |
| Comments: Irene Bloemraad | |
7:30 |
Dinner at hotel |
| Friday June 20 | |
| 9:30-10:45 | Ken Clark |
| Recent Migrants to the UK: Some Labour Market Implications | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Tea and Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Chloe Thurston |
| Just How Many Immigrants from Heaven? Uncertainty and the Politics of Eastern European Labor Market Access in Britain | |
| Comments: Ken Clark | |
| Remainder of the Day for Wrap Up Activities | |