April 11, 2012, 6-8 p.m. Orientation Room, 2 West 13th Street (at Fifth Ave) Understandings of immigration policy have all too often been limited by national blinders that fail to understand the full weight of interactions across borders. Domestic class conflict is a necessary but insufficient explanation for patterns of ethnic selection. Policies often converged
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March 21, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Cristina Dragomir, “Defying the stereotype—A life story of an immigrant soldier.” April 27, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Jorge Romero León, “Democratic exclusion? The turn to criminalization of irregular migrants and its consequences.” May 7, 1:00-2:30 p.m., Professor Alice Bloch, City University London, “Rejected Asylum Seekers Living as Irregular Migrants in England: Everyday Lives and
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Thursday, February 23, 2012 The Obama administration has just announced a plan to allow some undocumented immigrants to apply for a green card without having to return to their home country. The proposal is widely seen as an effort to reduce the forced separation of immigrant families. Last year the administration announced it would shift
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The documentary Precious Knowledge interweaves the stories of students in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School. While 48 percent of Mexican American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson High’s Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of education success, with on average, 93 percent of enrolled students graduating
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 | 6 p.m. On June, 24th, 2011, the State of New York passed legislation granting same-sex couples the right to marry. While many celebrated, some have warned that proclamation of victory is premature given that New York legislation does not supervene federal law and offers little or no help for binational
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 | 6 p.m. 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor, Orozco Room *Updated: Watch the video of this event above! Join us In celebrating a new book by Alexandra Delano, assistant professor of Global Studies, Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration Since 1848. The author is joined
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May 25-26, 2011 This workshop, organized by Middlebury College and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, focuses on the dispersal, exile, and other movement of intellectuals (broadly defined) across national borders since World War II. Topics of discussion include ways in which migrant or exiled intellectuals from particular nations or regions have met the
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May 6-7, 2011 This event, co-sponsored by ICMEC and Global Studies, brings together leading scholars, students, and practitioners focusing on the relation between sending states and their diaspora populations with particular focus on state-led promotion and protection of citizens abroad. Keynote Panel | May 6 | 6:00-8:00 p.m. Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue Diasporas, Democracy,
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March 25, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Cristina Dragomir, “BEING A FOREIGNER, A SOLDIER AND AN AMERICAN-The life story of an immigrant.” April 28, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Marina Kaneti, “RISC: Migrants’ Game of Rights, Identity, Security, and Choice.” May 16, 3:00-4:30 p.m, Ernesto Castañeda (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso), “Immigrant Integration in New York, Paris and
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Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:00-8:00 p.m. The New School 80 Fifth Avenue, room 802 In the context of the growing politicization of migration, a debate has emerged within policy and academia on the need to develop global governance on migration to facilitate better inter-state cooperation. However, this debate is taking place in the absence of
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