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Monday, May 6th: Alejandro Portes, “Latin American Institutions and Development: A Comparative Analysis”

The New School’s Global Studies program and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy invite you to attend: Latin American Institutions and Development: A Comparative Analysis   Register now!   The New School’s Global Studies Program and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) welcome Alejandro Portes, a prominent migration

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Food and Immigrant Life Conference

April 18-19, 2013 The Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies Program at The New School are pleased to present the 29th Social Research conference, “Food and Immigrant Life: The Role of Food in Forced Migration, Migrant Labor, and Re-creating Home,” on Thursday and Friday April 18 and 19, 2013, at The New School

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Migrant Membership and Memory Politics Research Cluster Announced

The Research Clusters funding initiative was launched by the Provost’s Office this year to support inter-divisional collaborative research, to capture new intellectual synergies of The New School, to seed research that has high potential for sustained external funding, and to make faculty work more visible. The four Research Clusters at the university were just announced

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The Economy vs. Immigration: What will unlock the Latino vote in 2012?

October 18, 2012, 6-8 p.m. 55 West 13th Street, Theresa Lang Center, Mezzanine As they did in 2008, Latino voters are again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election. But unlike 2008, when immigration reform was the dominant issue for many Latinos, this time it is less clear what will motivate them.

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The Rights of Noncitizens? Immigration, Boundaries, and Citizenship in Contemporary Democratic Politics

September 28-29, 2012 A workshop Co-sponsored by Politics & Society and by The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC) In most accounts of democracy, rights and citizenship are closely linked. Yet actual democracies contain many people who are not full citizens in legal and political terms, and who are present for brief or

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A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Communist Countries

September 18, 2012, 6-8 p.m. Hirshorn Suite, 55 West 13th Street, Mezzanine Level Thanks to the Soviet-style system of police control and the revolutionary changes since 1989, international mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of this kind and a unique experiment in the limits of state control. Dariusz Stola

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