2016-2017 Events

This seminar asks how Latina mothers seek to foster advantageous social identities in their daughters through their parenting practices, or more specifically, how Latina mothers manage and think about their daughter’s doll access.

This seminar extends the existing literature by using Census microdata to show that geographic sorting is also nativity-biased, and that immigrant workers sort into cities with higher wages and inelastic housing supplies.

This seminar addresses the connection between identity, memorialization, and natural resources in the Western Sahara protracted refugee crisis.

Professor Gudrun Biffl will be discussing the challenges confronting governments, employers, and unions as well as the migrants seeking to integrate in Europe.

Visiting scholars from the Institute of Social-Politic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPR RAS) will be presenting 15-minute talks regarding Russian migration topics.

Join King Hall faculty to discuss critical perspectives on first year classes. 

Researchers from UC Davis and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich come together to present results of their studies on the social protection of “crisis migrants” including unaccompanied minors, climate change migrants, and those fleeing structural poverty.

This is the first in a series of campus conversations to foster cross-disciplinary exchange on the contributions of feminist research.

This one-day conference, connected to the legislative environment to explore U.S. immigration policy since 9/11 and address the implications for immigration policy of the Trump presidency.

Joseph Chamie will provide an entertaining long-term perspective on current population and migration patterns and issues, including the US dilemma of what to do about the estimated 11 million unauthorized foreigners in the US and shrinking populations in many European countries.