Join the Immigration Workshop in collaboration with the International House and UChicago Global for a special book talk event with Alejandra Beatriz del Carmen Díaz de León. She will be discussing her new book Waking Together: Central Americans and Transit Migration...
“Lost in Translation: Language Segregation in the United States” Discussant: Alexander Koenig (Department of Comparative Human Development) Abstract: How segregated is the Hispanic population in terms of English language proficiency? Although decades of...
Discussant: Chiara Galli, Department of Comparative Human Development University of Chicago Abstract: Despite the established presence of Indigenous immigrants in the U.S., only recently has there been concerted efforts to examine and understand their incorporation...
Discussant: Johan Rocha, Department of Comparative Human Development University of Chicago Abstract: Does diversity lead to social fragmentation or integration? This question animates recent research on ethnic homophily – operationalized as the tendency to form social...
12:30pm-2pm Assembly Hall, International House 1414 59th St. Chicago IL 60637 RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/uchicagoimmigration Dr. Masferrer is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) and Coordinator of the Seminar...
Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the US was just published and there will be a book launch event at 6pm on April 3 at the Seminary Coop, in conversation with Angela Garcia. See here for more information....
“A Home in the Homeland: Understanding Country-of-Origin Property Ownership among U.S. Latino Immigrants and the Second Generation” Discussant: Dr. René Flores, Department of Sociology Abstract For immigrant families in the United States, owning property is not only...
“From Surveillance to Recognition: Counting as Visibility” Discussant: Anna Prior, Department of Comparative Human Development Abstract In the lead-up to and throughout the 2020 US Decennial Census, the Trump administration sought to exclude immigrants from the...
