Other News

In a new working paper, Giovanni Peri and Alessandro Caiumi extend the approach used in the 2000s literature to analyze the effects of immigration on natives' wages in the US. Their findings show that the strong complementarity between immigrants and natives leads to increased wages and employment opportunities for native workers from 2000 to 2022.

Read more here. 

GMC Director Giovanni Peri and GMC Grad Student Affiliate Reem Zaiour were featured on Econofact regarding the increase of Central American adult migrants to the United States, which corresponds to the increase in immigrant minors and the overall migration of families. In general, the majority of Central American minor migrants moved to the United States with their parents or were reunited with them in the past nine years.

Read more here.

We are happy to announce the Spring Quarter 2023 events. To see the list of events, visit the “Events” tab on our webpage or download the poster below of the events. 

We are extending congratulations to our program coordinator for two years at the GMC and our Postdoctoral Scholar, Giuseppe Ippedico. He has accepted a job as Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham, one of the top-ranked economics departments in the UK, and who is a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He will be missed, but we will continue to follow his research.

GMC Deputy Director Robert Mckee Irwin and GMC Graduate Affiliate Lucas Ruppel will be presenting in a two-part workshop. They will present the first session: “La narrativa digital con enfoque en poblaciones migrantes” on Friday, March 31st from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. In the first session, protocols for community collaboration will be introduced as seen in the Humanizing Deportation digital storytelling project.

We are happy to announce the Fall Quarter 2022 events. To see the list of events, visit the "Events" tab on our webpage or download the poster of the events.

Humanizing Deportation, with funding from UCD's Office Public Scholarship and Engagement (Public Impact Research Initiative grant) and Davis Humanities Institute (Public Engagement Fellows Program), as well as the Law School, sent UCD Law professor Raquel Aldana and a team of her students to Tijuana for the weekend of March 25-27 to offer free legal consultations to migrants at several migrant shelters and also at the offices of Al Otro Lado, a migrant legal services organization there.

GMC Affiliates Raquel Aldana and Joanna Regulska were featured as panelists during a recent UC Davis Law panel discussion on the current war in Ukraine. Aldana and Regulska both emphasize the humanitarian issues that stem from the event, noting incidents of racism and mass internal displacement due to the war.

Read the synopsis of the event here.

The Winter Quarter 2022 events series has been announced! To see the list of events, visit the "Events" tab on our webpage or download the poster of the events here.

We would like to highlight the involvement of GMC Affiliate Patrick Marius Koga in Refugee Interprofessional Community Engagement (RICE), a program in collaboration with University of the Pacific and nonprofit Opening Doors that's assisting Afghan refugees in Sacramento to adjust to their new lives. Among the volunteers are medical students from the UC Davis School of Medicine and undergraduate language interpreters from UC Davis.