2018-2019 News

HIA Noon Talk Featuring Associate Professor Fiamma Montezemolo will present a video on the border between Mexico and the USA titled Echo. It is an ethnographic research on the after life and “echoes” of 9 art works that have been part of the two-decade old public art event called inSite.

Professor Kevin Johnson's interview on how Kirstjen Nielsen's departure can affect administration policies featured in MPR News.

The Summer Institute provides researchers, faculty, graduate students, and professionals working with migrant communities around the world, a unique opportunity to learn about different health issues that affect mobile populations.

Latinx Talk published Professor Robert Irwin's article about what he witnessed in Tijuana and what caravan members themselves have stated in a series of digital stories they contributed to the Humanizing Deportation archive.

During the hard times of the Great Depression, state and local governments, with the support of the U.S. government, “repatriated” approximately one million persons of Mexican ancestry, including many U.S. citizen children as well as immigrant parents, to Mexico. Similarly, the U.S. government in 1954 in the military-style “Operation Wetback,” directed by a retired general, removed hundreds of thousands of persons of Mexican ancestry, including many U.S. citizen children, from the Southwest. Those discriminatory events have shaped the identities of Latinx people in the United States.

The Economics Department is organising two workshops on “Migration and Mobility: research findings, policy and impact” at the University of Glasgow from June 10-12, 2019. Deadline for submissions March 31.

UC PromISE is offering faculty research grants of up to $12,000 to support research on students who are undocumented and/or from mixed-status families; students are broadly defined at any education level and include those who have left or been pushed out of school. Application deadline is March 22.

Politico Magazine featured Professor Kevin Johnson's comments on California's economy

This book helps by presenting a group of prominent scholars who use data to help unravel the facts. They address immigration’s fiscal impacts, immigrants’ generational assimilation, enhanced U.S. enforcement, and alternatives for those seeking refugee status.