The Immigration Workshop at UChicago is currently accepting submissions for SY24-25. The workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for immigration-centered projects, providing space for students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty at the University of Chicago to present works-in-progress dealing with critical issues of global human mobility. We invite submissions from scholars who wish to think with us about their work and to push intellectual disciplinary boundaries around the study of immigration. We welcome a wide range of topics, methods, and presentation styles, as well as research proposals, articles, book chapters, and dissertation chapters. To foster our community, we will prioritize submissions from people who commit to attending the workshop, especially during the quarter they are presenting. If you’re unsure about how your research intersects with the aims of the workshop, please email us to check in! 

Workshop Layout

During every workshop, we will discuss one paper of no more than 25 double-spaced pages. One respondent will be in charge of providing detailed comments for the paper, and participants will provide additional feedback during the workshop, having read the paper before attending. Papers are sent out one week before the workshop meets to allow participants ample time to read the work-in-progress thoroughly. Lunch will be provided for each meeting.

SY24-25 Workshop

Our plan is to meet in person at the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) a few Mondays during each quarter during lunch hour (from 12:30pm-1:45pm). We’ll grab food and gather in the Conference Room 105, at Pick Hall, 5828 South University Ave. Please find the dates when we will meet this school year below:

Fall 2024:

• October 7th: Grace Tien (Northwestern University – Kellogg’s Golub Capital Social Impact Lab)
• October 21st: Daniela Juarez (University of Chicago – Sociology)
• November 4th: Marta Ascherio (Illinois State University – Criminal Justice Sciences)

Winter 2025: 

• January 27th: Open to UChicago students
• February 10th: Open to UChicago students
• February 24th: Open to UChicago students
• March 10th: Open to UChicago students

Spring 2025:

• March 31st: Karen Lee (DePaul University – Sociology)
• April 14th: Maria Abascal (New York University – Sociology)
• May 12th: Vanessa Delgado (Washington State University – Sociology)

If you would like to present at the workshop during the 2024/2025 academic year and/or serve as a respondent for any of the papers, please complete this Google form: https://forms.gle/ZVLdpphUsXDte6Zk9

If you have additional questions, please email student coordinators at kelso@uchicago.edu and ikiltezi@uchicago.edu.

*A note on accessibility and inclusion: The Immigration Workshop welcomes all university students, faculty, staff, speakers, and affiliates. If there are accommodations we can make to facilitate your access, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We will strive to create and support a good experience in our workshop space.