2017-2018 News

Associate Professor Erin Hamilton has been awarded the Fulbright-García Robles Grant to study the migration experiences of families with children in relation to Mexico-U.S. migration.

Professor Giovanni Peri's immigration research is the focus with highlights about the Migration Research Cluster.

Forbes recently referenced immigration research from Professor Giovanni Peri for an article, "Evidence That New Tariffs, Not Immigrants, Are Costing Jobs".

In this brief, Caitlin Patler, Erin Hamilton and Robin Savinar discuss new research on the impact of gaining temporary legal status on the psychological well-being of young, undocumented Latino immigrants in California.

Patler's research will use original longitudinal and mixed-methods data to address a series of questions about DACA’s role in influencing the educational disadvantages faced by undocumented children and youth.

CEPII (France), the EPFL (Switzerland), and the Paris School of Economics (France) are pleased to announce the 1st workshop in the series on “Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy”, to be held at the CEPII premises, in Paris, November 28, 2018. Call for paper submission deadline is 16/09/18.

Erin Hamilton's research focused on how over the past decade, migration from south to north that is from Mexico to the United States has been reversed.

Cecilia M. Tsu has been awarded 2018 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. The ACLS Fellowship program, the longest-running of our current fellowship and grant programs, is funded by ACLS’s endowment.

KNX 1070 featured Kevin Johnson's comments on the Caravan who seem to be fleeing a specific gang situation in places such as Honduras.

Public Integrity referenced Giovanni Peri's research in a recent article on how Trump and Sessions picked data to blame immigrants for lower wages.