Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop

Presentations: 2007-2008

Our weekly workshop will be held in William James Hall 601 on Tuesdays from 12pm to 1:30pm. A light lunch will be served!
SPRING TERM

Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of State Policies and Professional Norms
February 12, 2008
Presenter:	Helen Marrow (Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University)
Discussant:	Abby Williamson (PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University)

Mexican-Origin Families in High Poverty Contexts: Strengths & Vulnerabilities
February 19, 2008
Presenter:	Maria Rendon (PhD Candidate, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University)
Discussant:	Van Tran (PhD Candidate, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University)

Book Prospectus: Illegality in the Flesh Chapter 4: Fragmented Lifeworlds
February 26, 2008
Presenter:	Sarah Willen (NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School)
Discussant:	Helen Marrow (Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University)

A Tale of Two Projects, Bridges and Latin-Americans
March 4, 2008
Presenter:	Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University)
Discussant:	Onoso Imoagene (PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University)

Nathan I. Huggins Lectures: Richard Alba (Distinguished Professor of Race and Ethnicity, SUNY-Albany)

Blurring the Color Line: Possibilities for Ethno-Racial Change in Early 21st Century America*

Tues, March 11, 2008 (6:30pm-8:30pm)
Weds, March 12, 2008 (6:30pm-8:30pm)
Thurs, March 13, 2008 (4pm-5:30pm)

All three talks will be held at the Thompson Room of the Barker Center for the Humanties, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138

*Talk not organized by the Migration Workshop, but should be of interest to participants.

An Undeclared State of Emergency? Immigration Control and the Devolution of U.S. National Sovereignty
March 18, 2008
Presenter:	Philip Kretsedemas (Assistant Professor of Sociology, UMass-Boston)
Discussant:	Sarah Willen (NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School)

March 25, 2008 – No workshop scheduled

Immigrant Integration and Remittance Channel Choice
April 1, 2008
Presenter:	Melissa J. Siegel (PhD Candidate in Advanced Social Protection Policy, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance; Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government)
Discussant:	Arturo Esteva (PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard)

International Migration in Context: Migrant Types, Strategies and Outcomes
April 8, 2008
Presenter:	Filiz Garip (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University)
Discussant:	Corina Graif (PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University)

Workshop cancelled
April 15, 2008
Presenter:	Abby Williamson (PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University)

Integration Regimes and Social Cohesion in Europe
April 22, 2008
Presenter:	Tim Reeskens (PhD Candidate in Politcal Science, Catholic University of Leuven; Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government)
Discussant:	Colin Brown (PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 (3pm-4:30pm)*

Rethinking Transnationalism: The Cross-Border Dimension

This talk will be held in William James Hall 1550.

*Talk not organized by the Migration Workshop, but should be of interest to participants.

The Aftermath of Immigrants Raids in New Bedford
May 6, 2008
Presenter:	Lorraine Lezama (Mark DeWolfe Howe Fellow, Harvard Law School )
Discussant:	Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University)

FALL TERM

Transnational Ties as Tools for Negotiating Poverty & Identity: Latin-American Immigrant Women in Public Housing
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Presenter:	Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University)
Discussant:	Mary C. Waters (M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University)

Understanding Latino Diversity: Panethnic Identity Formation among Latinos
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Presenter:	Van C. Tran (PhD Student in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University)
Discussant:	Corina Graif (PhD Student in Sociology, Harvard University)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 -- No Workshop Scheduled

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Religious Festive Practice in Boston's North End
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Presenter:	Augusto Ferraiuolo (Visiting Researcher in Anthropology, Boston University )
Discussant:	Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University)

Immigration and Twentieth-Century U.S. Cities
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Presenter:	Llana Barber (PhD Candidate in History, Boston College)
Discussant:	Mary C. Waters (M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University)

The Political and Community Context of Immigrant Naturalization
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Presenter:	Jennifer Darrah (PhD Candidate in Sociology, Brown University)
Discussant:	Anulkah Thomas (PhD Candiate in Sociology, Harvard University)

Ethnicity and Nativity Status as Determinants of Social Support: Testing the Notion of Familism
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Presenter:	Joanna Almeida (PhD Candidate in Social Epidemiology, Harvard University)
Discussant:	Evgeny Firsov (PhD Student in Sociology, Harvard University)

Culture versus Structure: Determinants of Adult Post-Migration Enrollment in Education in the United States
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Presenter:	Maria Rocio Calvo (PhD Candidate in Social Work, Boston College)
Discussant:	Lily Song (PhD Student in Urban Studies and Planning, MIT)

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 -- No Workshop Scheduled

9/11 and Immigration Policy
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Presenter:	Melissa D. Barnett ( Research Associate, Steinhardt Social Research Institute, Brandeis University)
Discussant:	Abby Williamson (PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University)

Documented, Undocumented and Somewhere "In-Between:” The Effects of Documentation Status on Children of Brazilian Immigrants
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Presenter:	Kara Cebulko (PhD Candidate in Sociology, Indiana University)
Discussant:	Helen B. Marrow (Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University)

Pathways to Immigrant Political Incorporation – In Search of a Model
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Presenter:	Jennifer Hochschild (Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University)
Discussant:	Eric Brewer-Garcia (Graduate Student in Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)