| FALL TERM |
| Thurs. September 28, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Cybelle Fox
(PhD Candidate, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Mary C. Waters
(M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Expelling the "Aliens": The Deportation and Repatriation of Mexicans and
European Immigrants at the Hands of Relief Authorities |
| Thurs. October 05, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Zoua Vang
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University)
& Dorren McMahon
(Senior Researcher & Marie Curie Fellow, Geary Institute, University College Dublin) |
| Discussant:
| Mary C. Waters
(M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Deserving and Undeserving Immigrants in Ireland: A Model of Economic Absorption and Social Integration |
| Thurs. October 12, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Daniel Nadler
(MA Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
) |
| Discussant:
| Van Tran
(PhD Student, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University) |
| Terms of Association: Rights-Literacy in Newly Arrived Canadian Immigrant Communites and the Lingusitic
Socialization of the Family Political Unit |
| Thurs. October 19, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Lisa Cacari Stone
(
W.K. Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities & Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health) |
| Discussant:
| Jennifer Darrah-Okike
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Brown University) |
| Citizenship and Public Health: Front-Line Workers Respond to Welfare Reform in a Southwest Border State |
| Thurs. October 26, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Sarah Dryden-Peterson
(EdD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of
Education) |
| Discussant:
| Margaret Post
(PhD Candidate, Social Policy, Brandeis
University) |
| Social Networks and the Hidden Job Market: The Role of Bridging Social Capital in the Integration of
Highly-Skilled Newcomers in Canada |
| Thurs. November 2, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Leticia Braga
(EdD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education) |
| Discussant:
| Thomas Soehl
(MPA Candidate, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University) |
| Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States |
| Thurs. November 9, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Silvia Dominguez
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University) |
| Discussant:
| Abby Williamson
(PhD Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University) |
| A Tale of Two Projects: Neighborhoods, Immigration, Social Capital and Forced Integration
|
| Thurs. November 16, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Thomas Soehl
(MPA Candidate, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University) |
| Discussant:
| Byron D. Miller
(PhD Candidate, Government & Social Policy, Harvard
University) |
| Between Immigrant Cohorts, Ideology and Ethnicity: The Difficult Way of the Russian Community into Local Politics in New
York City |
| Thurs. November 30, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Corina Graif
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Zoua Vang
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Creative Class and Diversity: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Chicago Neighborhoods |
| Thurs. December 7, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Onoso Imoagene
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Adam Sawyer
(EdD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education) |
| Workshop Cancelled |
| Thurs. December 14, 2006 |
| Presenter:
| Van Tran
(PhD Student, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Byron Pacheco Miller
(PhD Student, Government & Social Policy, Harvard
University) |
| Taking Heterogeneity Seriously: The Effect of
Immigrant Generation Status on Political Participation among Latinos" |
| SPRING TERM |
| Thurs. February 8, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Larissa Remennick
(Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University,
Israel) |
| Discussant:
| Mary C. Waters
(M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Immigration, Gender, and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Study of 150 Immigrant Couples in Israel |
| Thurs. February 15, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Onoso Imoagene
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Melissa Barnett
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Florida State University) |
| Why Bother with US Education? The Influence of Source of Education on Highly Educated Immigrant Wages |
| Thurs. February 22, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Susan Eckstein
(Professor of Sociology, Boston University) |
| Discussant:
| Corina Graif
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Transnational Family Based Social Capital: Remittances and the Transformation of Cuba |
| Thurs. March 1, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Masayo Nishida
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Boston University) |
| Discussant:
| Zoua Vang
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Invisible Intruders? National Identity of Boston's German and Japanese Elite Migrants |
ANNUAL GUEST LECTURE
Thurs. March 8, 2007, 3pm-4:30pm, William James Hall, Room 1 |
| Guest Lecturer:
| Prema Kurien
(Associate Professor of Sociology, Maxwell School of Syracuse University) |
| A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism
Multiculturalism and "American" Religion: The Case of Hindu Indian Americans |
| Thurs. March 15, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Ryan Allen
(PhD Candidate, Urban Studies and Planning, MIT) |
| Discussant:
| Abby Williamson
(PhD Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University) |
| The Logic of Social Tie Activation |
| Thurs. March 22, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Silvia Dominguez
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University) |
| Discussant:
| Tamara Pavasovic (PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University |
| Bridges towards the Whole Community: The Role of Immigrants in the Personal Networks of Host Individuals |
| Thurs. April 5, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Mary Waters
(M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Onoso Imoagene
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University) |
| The Second Generation Advantage: Children of Immigrants Inherit the City (Chapter 10) |
| Thurs. April 12, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Melissa Barnett
(PhD Candidate, Sociology, Florida State University) |
| Discussant:
| Silvia Dominguez
(Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University) |
| Whom Do We Welcome? Immigrants, Refugees & Asylees Pre- & Post-9/11 |
| Thurs. April 19, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Abby Williamson
(PhD Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University) |
| Discussant:
| Ryan Allen
(PhD Candidate, Urban Studies and Planning, MIT)
|
| Social Capital in New Immigrant Destinations: The Case of Lewiston, Maine |
| Thurs. April 26, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Margaret Post
(PhD Candidate, Social Policy, Brandeis University) |
| Discussant:
| Kara Cebulko (PhD Candidate, Indiana University) |
| Immigrant Political Incorporation through Grassroots Organizing: A Massachusetts Case Study |
| Thurs. May 3, 2007 |
| Presenter:
| Van Tran
(PhD Student, Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard) |
| Discussant:
| Corina Graif
(PhD Student, Sociology, Harvard) |
| English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? The Process of Language Assimilation among Second-Generation Latinos |
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