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

June 9-June 20, 2008
Peak District, UK

Schedule as of June 3, 2008
Monday June 9
Morning
9.00-10.45 Introductions
10.45-11.00Tea and coffee break
11.00 – 12.45 Mary C. Waters
US Immigration and Assimilation
12.45 – 1.45Lunch
Afternoon
1:45 Coach to pick up at Moorside Grange and take to Manchester
2.30- 4.30Faculty: 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
10.00pmCoach back to hotel
Tuesday June 10
Morning
9.30-10.45Virinder Kalra
Immigration and Racism
10.45-11.00Tea and coffee break
11.00-12.15Ceri Peach
“British Immigration, 1948-2008”
12.15-1.15Lunch
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
3.15-3.30Tea 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
9.30-10.45Steve Vertovec
Conceiving and Researching Diversity
10.45-11.00Tea and coffee break
11.00 – 12.15Ed Fieldhouse
Social Capital and Neighborhood Composition in the UK: Does diversity damage social capital?
12.15-1.15Lunch
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
3.15-3.30Tea 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
2.30-4.30Meet members of MCCR (http://www.mccr.org.uk/Public/index.htm)
4.45Travel back to Manchester University for evening lecture
5.30Reception, Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Professor Robert Putnam, University Place, Oxford Rd
6.15Lecture
7.30-10.30Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture Dinner, Whitworth Hall, Oxford Rd, University of Manchester.
10.30Pick up to travel back to hotel.
Friday June 13
Morning
9.30-10.45 Will Cook, Home Office/Cabinet Office Strategy Unit
10.45-11.00Tea and coffee break
11-12.15Richard Alba
Boundaries: Why they matter and how they change
12.15-1.15Lunch
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
3.15-3.30Tea 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
10.30-10.45Tea 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.
9.00-10.15John Helliwell and Rafael DiTella
Well Being
10.15-10:30Tea and coffee break
10:30-12.00George Akerlof
Economics and Identity
12.00-1.00Lunch
Afternoon
1.00-2.00Jennifer Hochschild
The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States
2.00-3.00Natasha Warikoo
Conducting Cross-National Comparative Research on the Immigrant Second Generation
3.00-3.15Tea 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
9:00-10:00Richard Alba
Non Zero Sum Mobility, Identity and Immigrant Integration
10:00-10:15Coffee and Tea
10:15-11:15 James Nazroo
Being a Muslim in Europe: Attitudes and Experiences
11:15-12:15Karen Phalet
Religion and the Integration of Second-Generation Muslims in Europe
12:15-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:30Natasha Warikoo
Balancing Acts: Youth Culture among Children of Immigrants in New York and London
2:30-3:15Discussant: Jennifer Hochschild
3:15-3:30Coffee and Tea
3:30-5:30Discussion 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
9:00-10:00Maurice Crul
The Turks in Europe. Do the national integration contexts shape Turkish communities differently across Europe?
10:00-10:15 Coffee and Tea
10:15-11:15Anthony Heath
Cohort, Life Cycle and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
11:15-12:15 Ceri Peach
Muslim Population of Britain: Gender and Disadvantage
12:15-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:30 Nicole Fortin
The Economic Integration of Immigrants
2:30-2:45Coffee and Tea
2:45-4:15Roundtable Discussion on Diversity, Trust and Community
Robert Putnam, Irene Bloemraad, John Helliwell, Ed Fieldhouse, Hafang Huang, Chris Barrington-Lee, Anthony Heath, James Lawrence.
4:15-5:30Concluding 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”
10.15-10.30Tea 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.
1.00-1:45Lunch
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
3.45-4.00Tea 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
9.00-10:00Nina 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
11:00-11:15Tea 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
12:45-2:00Lunch
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
9:30-10:45Ken Clark
Recent Migrants to the UK: Some Labour Market Implications
10:45-11:00Tea 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