2018-2019 Events

PRIEC (Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium) is an ongoing series of meetings that brings together faculty and graduate students and showcases work-in-progress on racial/ethnic politics and the politics of immigration.

This third annual conference will discuss alumni research as well as provide opportunities to network and create collaborative relationships with current and future UC Davis Ph.D students. 

The talk by Post-Doctoral scholar Aparna Malaviya focuses on the special case of Afghan refugees living in Delhi, India, who are stranded in “border politics” between nation-states and the humanitarian regime of care.

Maritime migrant interdiction emerged in the 1980s. With it came a new era of border externalization--the offshoring of migration policing as a mode of jurisdictional arbitrage. This talk with Jeffrey Kahn examines the effects of maritime migration policing on the form of the nation-state.

We examine the impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. Around 120,000 people left the island in under six months, and a large plurality of them moved into the Orlando metropolitan area. We adopt a synthetic control estimation strategy to identify the short-term causal impact of the inflow on the Orlando labor market.

In this paper, Cynthia van der Werf studies how the largest inflow of refugees in U.S. history –Indochinese refugees at the end of the Vietnam War – affected U.S. children by examining whether native children’s academic achievement was lower in ZIP Codes with higher shares of refugees using the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS88), the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and U.S. Census data.

In this paper, Xiaoman Luo investigates how parental out-migration affects the schooling outcomes of children left behind in rural China.

This multimedia exhibition and series of community dialogues is a collaboration with the artists and activists working locally in Tijuana on immigration policy and its personal reverberations. 

The Conversation is a public event series hosted by the UC Davis Humanities Institute that invites professors and public intellectuals to consider current issues of the day.