Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
Presentations: 2007-2008
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SPRING TERM |
Our weekly workshop will be held in William James Hall 601 on Tuesdays from 12pm to 1:30pm. A light lunch will be served!
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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) |
Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of State Policies and Professional Norms
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February 19, 2008 |
Presenter: |
Maria Rendon (PhD Candidate, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University) |
Discussant: |
Van Tran (PhD Candidate, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University) |
Mexican-Origin Families in High Poverty Contexts: Strengths & Vulnerabilities
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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) |
Book Prospectus: Illegality in the Flesh
Chapter 4: Fragmented Lifeworlds
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March 4, 2008 |
Presenter: |
Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University) |
Discussant: |
Onoso Imoagene (PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
A Tale of Two Projects, Bridges and Latin-Americans
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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. |
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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) |
An Undeclared State of Emergency? Immigration Control and the Devolution of U.S. National Sovereignty
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March 25, 2008 – No workshop scheduled |
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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) |
Immigrant Integration and Remittance Channel Choice
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April 8, 2008 |
Presenter: |
Filiz Garip (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) |
Discussant: |
Corina Graif (PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University) |
International Migration in Context:
Migrant Types, Strategies and Outcomes
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April 15, 2008 |
Presenter: |
Abby Williamson (PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University)
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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) |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 (3pm-4:30pm)*
Sociology Colloquium Speaker: Roger Waldinger (Professor of Sociology, UCLA)
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. |
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May 6, 2008 |
Presenter: |
Lorraine Lezama (Mark DeWolfe Howe Fellow, Harvard Law School ) |
Discussant: |
Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University) |
The Aftermath of Immigrants Raids in New Bedford
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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) |
Transnational Ties as Tools for Negotiating Poverty & Identity:
Latin-American Immigrant Women in Public Housing
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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)
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Understanding Latino Diversity: Panethnic Identity Formation among Latinos
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 -- No Workshop Scheduled |
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
Presenter: |
Augusto Ferraiuolo
(Visiting Researcher in Anthropology, Boston University ) |
Discussant: |
Silvia Dominguez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University) |
Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Religious Festive Practice in Boston's North End
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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) |
Immigration and Twentieth-Century U.S. Cities
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
Presenter: |
Jennifer Darrah (PhD Candidate in Sociology, Brown University) |
Discussant: |
Anulkah Thomas (PhD Candiate in Sociology, Harvard University) |
The Political and Community Context of Immigrant Naturalization
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 |
Presenter: |
Joanna Almeida (PhD Candidate in Social Epidemiology, Harvard University) |
Discussant: |
Evgeny Firsov (PhD Student in Sociology, Harvard University) |
Ethnicity and Nativity Status as Determinants of Social Support: Testing the Notion of Familism
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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)
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Culture versus Structure: Determinants of Adult Post-Migration Enrollment in Education in the United States
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 -- No Workshop Scheduled |
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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) |
9/11 and Immigration Policy
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007 |
Presenter: |
Kara Cebulko (PhD Candidate in Sociology, Indiana University) |
Discussant: |
Helen B. Marrow (Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University) |
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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) |
Pathways to Immigrant Political Incorporation – In Search of a Model
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Weekly workshop:
Tuesdays, noon-1:30pm
William James Hall 601
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Lunch will be served!
Coordinators:
Van C. Tran
Onoso Imoagene
Faculty Sponsors:
Mary C. Waters
Jennifer Hochschild
Email Contact:

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