2020-2021 Events

In the Global Migration Center Annual Symposium, the faculty affiliates of the center will present their research in a compact and thought-provoking way.

Humanizing Deportation presenta una conversación con el migrante, activista y artista Douglas Oviedo sobre su recién publicado drama testimonial Caravaneros, con Debra Castillo (Cornell University) y Julia Medina (University of San Diego), moderada por Robert McKee Irwin (

A forthcoming report from Daniel Costa, Philip Martin, and Zachary Rutledge analyzes data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division on federal labor law enforcement efforts in agriculture over the past two decades.

With this paper, I consider the ways in which moving-with digital stories of deportation can become a humanizing experience that amplifies both speakers’ and listeners’ capacity to affect and be affected.

Speaker: Elizabeth Villalobos, Assistant Professor, World Languages and Literatures, University of Nevada Reno

Traditional public health surveillance relies on reporting at the local level of suspected unusual clusters of events, with subsequent investigation and feedback. While comprehensive, this approach often relies on sufficient infrastructure, funding, and time.

The level of Aversion to Breaking Rules (ABR) is heterogeneous across nearby localities in many areas of the world and geographic sorting based on ABR maybe a reason.

This paper examines the financing structure of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an executive branch administrative agency that is almost entirely funded by applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits.

This paper investigates the impact of immigrants; (foreigners) links with their home-country on Brazilian imports and exports of goods.