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MIG Activities

Upcoming lectures, seminars, and conferences on migration

  • February 27, 2009, EMILIO PARRADO, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania
    "Migration, Social Disorganization, and the Sexual Partners of Mexican Men: Implications for STD/HIV Risks"
    • 12:00-1:00 pm, 153 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
  • March 2-4, 2009, Invisible Discriminations
    Speaker Series, ILR Global Affairs Club and Americans for Informed Democracy
    • Student Organized event
  • April 2-3, 2009, Regional Identity in Times of Globalization and Diaspora
    An interdisciplinary conference combining issues of political economy, migration, art and humanities.
    • Cornell University
    • Sponsored by Cornell University’s Latin American Studies Program (LASP) and Syracuse University’s Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA)

      PLACA and LASP invite participation from graduate students and faculty, especially from the social sciences, arts and humanities, to examine the boundaries and limits of the cultural space called Latin America and the Caribbean. Among possibilities, participants are invited to explore implications of the self and the collective, the inside and the outside, and the regional and the global ways that political, social, technological, historical and literary processes are being negotiated in the region.

      Territorial boundaries and national sovereignties are undergoing change. Influenced by twin forces of nationalism and neoliberalism, regional identities and understandings of citizenship are being reconfigured. Consequently, the co-evolution of Latin American and Caribbean cultures and identities is expected to give rise to new conceptualizations and claims. This conference will address some of these issues through invited papers and posters that will complement centerpiece discussion by an international panel. Panelists include: Cornell A. D. White Professor-at-Large and famed Colombian writer Laura Restrepo, Héctor Abad-Faciolince, Jaime Manrique, Gustavo Mejía and Edmundo Paz-Soldán (moderator).

      Other featured activities include viewing and discussing a selected film, Flores de otro mundo (1999), and a discussion with artist Brian Nissen (www.briannissen.com) entitled, Mind the Gap: Mutual Misunderstandings/Connecting Cultures. Mr. Nissen will also present some of his codices (e.g., The Obsidian Butterfly, Codex Aztlán) in celebration of Mexican images and identities.
  • April 10, 2009, CHARLES HIRSCHMAN, Sociology Department, University of Washington
    "Immigration and American Identity"
    • 12:00-1:00 pm, G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
    • CPP Seminar

Migration Events held at Cornell University

  • February 19-20, 2009, JUNOT DIAZ, Opening of Cornell Writing Celebration
    • Feb. 19, 2:00 - Panel, Arts and Immigration, Johnson Museum
      • Sponsored by Latino Studies Program
    • Feb. 19, 4:30 - Reading, Johnson Museum
    • Feb. 20, 7:30 - Reading, Rockefeller Hall Schwartz Auditorium
  • February 12, 2009, RON MIZE, Development Sociology
    "Immigrant Incorporation, School Data, and Population Projections, The Future of Latinos in Upstate New York"
    • NYS Canter for Rural Schools
  • December 8, 2008, Cornell Migration Interest Group (MIG) Brown Bag
    "Immigration Policy in the Obama Administration: Prospects for Change"     featuring STEPHEN W. YALE-LOEHR
    • Co-sponsored by Polson Institute for Global Development and Cornell Population Program
  • October 3-4, 2008, Immigrant Child: Past, Present, and Future
    • Sponsored by the Family Life Development Center and the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center
    • Cornell faculty and graduate students with appropriate research interests should contact Prof. Joan Jacobs Brumberg at jjb10@cornell.edu. Click here for more information.
  • September 26, 2008, Immigration Policy and America's Future
    Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Migration and Development, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
    Michael J. Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, MIT
    • Sponsored by Cornell Population Program
  • August 27, 2008, GEORGE BORJAS, Harvard University
    "Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply"
    • Labor Economics Workshop cosponsored by Public Economics
  • May 15, 2008, Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
    • Sponsored by: Institute for the Social Sciences and Committee for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration in the United States (CSERIUS)
    • http://www.arts.cornell.edu/amerstud
  • May 2, 2008, ZHENCHAO QIAN, Sociology Department, Ohio State University
    "Status Exchange? Marriage to a U.S. Citizen (and Access to Green Card)"
    • The Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center Spring 2008 Colloquium Series, Co-sponsored by the Cornell Population Program
  • April 12, 2008, Colombian Migration Conference: Transnational, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
  • April 8, 2008, Film Screening: Crossing Arizona
    • Discussion with Maria Cook, Professor of International and Comparative Labor, will follow the screening
    • Presented by the Cornell Farmworker Program Student Association and cosponsored bt eh Cornell Farmworker Program
  • April 4, 2008, DILIP RATHA
    Leveraging Remittances for Development
    • Sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
  • April 1, 2008, ASSAF RAZIN, Cornell University (joint with Edith Sand)
    Immigration and the Welfare State: Political Economy Insights
    • Public Economics Workshop
  • February 18, 2008, FARHA TERNIKAR, Department of Development Sociology, Le Moyne College
    Marriage and Dowry Among Pakistani Immigrants in the US
    • Presented by the South Asia Program Seminar Series
  • February 15, 2008, DR. VALENTIN Y. MUDIMBE, Duke University
    Immigration, Identity Politics in Philosophy of Culture
    • Sponsored by Africana Studies and Research Center
  • February 13, 2008, SUZANNE ASMAN, Anthropology, Goteberg University, Sweden
    Circular Migratory Flows of Women: Local Social Memory of Changes in Women's Migration in Time and Space
    • Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Gender and Global Change Programs
  • February 8, 2008, MARIA COOK, ISS Contentious Knowledge Team member and Professor of ILR, Cornell University
    Unauthorized Migration and Border "Control": Three Regional Views
    • ISS Contentious Knowledge project event
    • Sponsored by Architecture, Art, and Planning
  • February 5, 2008, MOON-HO JUN, Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
    We Were Not All Immigrants: Toward a Radical Vision of (Asian) American History
    • Sponsored by Asian American Studies
  • January 31, 2008, MARIA KOINOVA, Postdoctoral Associate, Department Of Government
    Diasporas and Sovereignty of their Homelands: The Transnational Activism of the Albanian and Lebanese Diasporas since 2000
    • Sponsored by Peace Studies
  • December 6, 2007, JOHN KNODEL, University of Michigan
    “The Impact of Migration on Rural Elderly in Northern Thailand”
    • Southeast Asia Brown Bag Session, Kahin Center
    • Co-sponsored by Southeast Asia Program and Polson Institute for Global Development
  • November 16, 2007, MAI NGAI, Columbia University
    “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America”
    • Co-sponsored by City and Regional Planning, Development Sociology, Polson Institute for Global Development
  • November 5, 2007, JOHN ICELAND, University of Maryland
    Immigrant Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000
    • Sponsored by Policy Analysis and Management
  • November 1, 2007, Gender and Global Change Program Lecture and Reception
    Migration, Assimilation and the Cultural Construction of Identity: Navajo Perspectives
  • October 23, 2007, MARIA COOK, ISS Contentious Knowledge Team member and Professor of ILR, Cornell University
    Mapping Migrant Rights Frames: Comparative Views
  • October 19, 2007, KEN JOHNSON, Loyola Univeristy - Chicago
    • Co-sponsored by the Bronfenbrenner Center, the Cornell Population Program, Development Sociology, and the Polson Institute for Global Development
  • October 12, 2007, SASKIA SASSEN, Columbia University
    "Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages"
    • Co-sponsored by City and Regional Planning, Development Sociology, Polson Institute for Global Development
  • October 9-10, 2007, Addressing the Needs of Multicultural and Immigrant Communities
  • September 26, 2007, BASSAM TIBI, A.D. White Professor at Large
    A Migration Story: From Muslim Immigrants to European "Citizens of the Heart"
    • Sponsored by Program for A.D. White Professors-at-Large, and the Institute for European Studies
  • September 21, 2007, GRACE DELGADO, The Pennsylvania State University
    Transnational Chinese Networks Inside/Outside the U.S. Mexico Borderlands, 1874-1905
    • Co-sponsored by Department of Development Sociology, Latin American Studies Program, American Studies Program, Department of History, and Polson Institute for Global Development
  • September 10, 2007, GIOCONDA HERRERA, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO Ecuador
    Stories of Inclusion and Exclusion. Eduadorian Migrant Domestic Workers
    • Sponsored by Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
  • September 7, 2007, ARISTIDE R. ZOLBERG, New School for Social Research
    “A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America”
    • Co-sponsored by City and Regional Planning, Development Sociology, Polson Institute for Global Development
  • September 7, 2007, SAHANA ROY COUDHURY, Indian Statistical Institute
    “Migration in a Model of Occupational Choice”
    • Co-sponsored by Development Economics Workshop, Co-Sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Program on Comparative Economic Development
  • August 27, 2007, GEORGE BORJAS, Harvard University
    "Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply”
    • Sponsored by the Labor Economics Workshop joint with Public Economics and Cornell Population Program

Polson Institute Memorial Lecture

  • November 17, 2006, MARTA TIENDA, Princeton University
    "Hispanics and the American Future"