Immigration Workshop

Nov 9, 2023: Alejandra Beatriz del Carmen Díaz de León

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...

Oct. 11 2023: Dr. Juan Pedroza (UC Merced)

“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...

May 9 2023: Dr. Karina Chavarria (CSU Channel Islands)

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...

April 25 2023: Dr. Lucas Drouhot (Utrecht University)

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...

Save the date: Precarious Protections book launch April 3

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....

February 28th Workshop: Ilana Ventura

“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...

February 21st Workshop: Hannah Obertino Norwood

“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...
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