2018-2019 Events | Global Migration Center

6th Annual One Health Symposium: Interfaces

8:00-9:00AM Registration & Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:10AM

Welcome Remarks

Nov 2, 2019 @ 9:00am - 5:00pm
UC Davis Health, Education Building 4610 X Street, Sacramento CA
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The Current Migration and Humanitarian Crisis in Chiapas

In the summer of 2019, Humanizing Deportation’s fieldwork team in Tapachula found itself in the middle of a major humanitarian crisis as Mexican authorities held large groups of migrants in Chiapas in order to prevent th

Nov 18, 2019 @ 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Hart Hall Room 3201 | UC Davis
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Oleg Firsin | Immigration Attitudes and Immigrant Doctor Location Patterns

Recent research from Europe has found that immigrants are less likely to move to locations politically run by far-right parties. With two large political parties in the U.S., there is no far-right or far-left party.

The 25th Anniversary of Proposition 187: Challenges and Opportunities for Immigrant Integration and Political Identity in California

The UC Davis School of Law and UC Davis Law Review are hosting a panel and an academic symposium to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the passage of Prop. 187 on November 13-14, 2019. The panel will feature litigators who challenged Prop. 1897 in the courts. The academic symposium will discuss the influence Prop. 187 had on immigration at the state and federal levels, the political environment in California, and Latinx and immigrant communities in four panel discussions.

Global Migration Center Faculty Research Symposium

In the MRC Faculty Symposium, the associates of the research cluster will present their research in a compact and thought-provoking way.

Dec 6, 2019 @ 12:00pm - 5:00pm
2203 SS&H (Andrews Conference Room) | UC Davis
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Integrating Low-Skilled Migrants: European and US Experience

This transatlantic conference explores the pathways followed by low-skilled foreign-born workers, those with a secondary school education or less, into employment.

Oct 24, 2019 @ 9:00am - 5:00pm
Andrews Conference Room 2203 SSH, UC-Davis
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Abigail Stepnitz | Asylum Seeking in Unsettled Times: The Changing Nature and Function of Credibility in Immigration Law and Culture

This paper asks how the evolution of cultural ideas about credibility shapes the form of asylum claims, and in light of this process, how asylum-seekers navigate competing demands to make credible claims of persecution and fear. Using a sample of 150 asylum claims from around the world, lodged over a 30-year period, it shows how asylum-seeking takes place in culturally “unsettled times,” which require claimants to adjust the ways they seek to demonstrate their credibility as they navigate the competing demands of organizational legibility, legal requirements, and cultural perceptions.

Oct 31, 2019 @ 11:00am - 12:00pm
2203 SS&H (Andrews Conference Room) | UC Davis
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La Migración Actual en América del Norte: Detención, Deportación, Retorno

This symposium explores contemporary dynamics of migration in North America, including the criminalization of migrants, the securitization of borders, migrant detention, family separation, deportation, and return migration, from a multidisciplinary perspective, and in dialogue with social organizations.

Sep 11, 2019 @ 8:30am - 6:00pm
Casa de la Universidad de California, Chimalistac
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Documenting the Undocumented: Immigrant Voices of Past and Present

The symposium presents the multi-faceted way that undocumented immigrant narratives can be documented.

May 9, 2019 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Global Affairs Multipurpose Room
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"Get Out: How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates"

Even the most authoritarian governments allow some citizens to leave. How do they decide who can leave? In this paper, Associate Professor Margaret Peters argues that authoritarian leaders face trade-offs when deciding which individuals should be allowed to leave.