Please join us for our next ICMEC Work in Progress Series presentation on Friday November 30, 3pm. Location: 6 E 16th St, 7th floor (room TBC). Presenter: Maria Kaneti (Politics) Title: “Metis and the migrant: interacting with the state beyond agonism and dissensus” Description: This paper seeks to theorize the interactions between undocumented migrants and
October 18, 2012, 6-8 p.m. 55 West 13th Street, Theresa Lang Center, Mezzanine As they did in 2008, Latino voters are again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election. But unlike 2008, when immigration reform was the dominant issue for many Latinos, this time it is less clear what will motivate them.
September 28-29, 2012 A workshop Co-sponsored by Politics & Society and by The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC) In most accounts of democracy, rights and citizenship are closely linked. Yet actual democracies contain many people who are not full citizens in legal and political terms, and who are present for brief or
September 18, 2012, 6-8 p.m. Hirshorn Suite, 55 West 13th Street, Mezzanine Level Thanks to the Soviet-style system of police control and the revolutionary changes since 1989, international mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of this kind and a unique experiment in the limits of state control. Dariusz Stola
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
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
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
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
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
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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