The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop

MII Presentations, 2003-2004

Wed, October 8, 2003
Presenter: Tomas Jimenez
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard)
Discussant: Luisa Heredia
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard)
Mexican Americans' Opinions and Attitudes Toward Mexican Immigrants
Wed, October 22, 2003
Presenter: Maria Rendon
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard)
Discussant: Mary Waters
(Professor,
Sociology, Harvard)

Second Generation Decline
and Socioeconomic Assimilation:
Comparing the Mexican-Origin Population, Blacks, and Whites
Wed, November 5, 2003
Presenter: Mary C. Waters
(Professor,
Sociology, Harvard)
Discussant: Audrey Alforque (PhD Candidate,
Sociology, Harvard)
The Ever Wining Path:
Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the Transition to Adulthood
Wed, November 19, 2003
Presenter: Yvonne Gastélum
(PhD Candidate, Government, Harvard)
Discussant: Dan Reichman (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell)
Basic Sites of Justice: Incorporating Borderlands
into Theories of Justice
Wed, December 5, 2003
Presenter: Lorraine Lezama
Discussant: TBA
February 19, 2004 (5:00PM William James Hall 501)
Presenter: Eduardo Mosqueda
(PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Education, Harvard)
Discussant: Tomas Jimenez
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard)
The Academic and Social Consequences of Tracking Immigrant Latinos in Math
March 4, 2004 (5:00PM William James Hall 501)
Presenter: Dan Reichman
(PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell)
Discussant: Wendy Roth (PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard)
The Migrant Haragán: Understanding Emigration in a Honduran Coffee Town
Thurs, March 18, 2004 (5:00PM William James Hall 501)
Presenter: Audrey Alforque-Thomas
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard)
Discussant: Eduardo Mosqueda (PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Parent-Child Interaction and Educational Expecations of the Immigrant Second Generation
ANNUAL GUEST LECTURE: Tues. April 13, 2004 (4:30 PM William James Hall 1550)
Guest Lecturer: Richard Alba
(Professor of Sociology, SUNY, Albany; Visiting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study)
Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment
Thurs, April 15, 2004 (5:00PM William James Hall 501)
Presenter: Dr. Hsiu-hua Shen
(Postdoctoral fellow, Fairbanks Center, Harvard University)
Discussant: TBA
The Making of a Transnational Taiwanese Capitalist Class in China
Thurs, April 29, 2004 (5:00PM William James Hall 501)
Presenter: Dr. Vivian Louie
(Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Discussant: TBA
Paths to College Among Second Generation Chinese and Dominicans: The Role of Social Capital
Thurs, May 13, 2004 (5:00PM William James Hall 501)
Presenter: Jean-Philippe Dedieu
(Doctoral Student, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
Discussant: TBA
Composite Identities: The Social History of African Legal Professionals in France

 

 

 

Our weekly workshop will be held on Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in William James Hall 601, located at 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA.

 

Coordinators:

Van C. Tran

Zoua Vang

 

Faculty Sponsors: 

Mary C. Waters 

Jennifer Hochschild

 

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