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2006 - 2007 Speaker Series
 
 
Fall 2006 meetings 

October 26
   Min Zhou, Sociology, UCLA
   "Chinatown, Koreatown, and Beyond: The Formation of Social Capital Conducive to 
   Educational Achievement"
 
November 9 (4 PM, faculty center)
   "Reflections on the Immigrants Rights Movement":
   Forum with Angelica Salas (Chirla) and Pablo Alvarez (National Day Laborer 
   Organizing Network)
   Co-sponsored with the Institute of Industrial Relations
 
November 30
   Rahsaan Maxwell, Political Science, UC Berkeley
   "The Paradoxes of Integration among Caribbeans in Britain and France"
 
December 7
   Cecilia Menjivar, Sociology, Arizona 
   "Law against the Family: Immigrant Families and Immigration Law"
 
Winter 2007 meetings: 

January 11
   Author meets critics session on Ivan Light, Deflecting Immigrants
   Author: Ivan Light; Critics: Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Roger Waldinger, Min Zhou
 
January 19 (Friday, 12 - 1:30 pm,  6275 Bunche Hall, History Conference Room) 
   Nacira Guenif-Souilimas, Sociology, University of Paris
   "Mobility, migration, and minorities in postcolonial France" 
   Co-sponsored with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies
 
February 1 (12 - 1:30 pm, Public Policy 5391)
   Victor Zuniga, University of Monterrey
   "Transnational Children in Mexico: Schooling and the Nation-State”
 
February 15 (12 - 1:30 pm, Public Policy 5391)
   Enrico Marcelli, Public Health, Harvard
   "Legal Status and the Health of Mexican Immigrant Adults in the United States."
 
March 1 (12 - 1:30 pm, Public Policy 5391)
   David Hernandez, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
   "Surrogate Detention: Subcontracting U.S. Detention Practices At Home and Abroad"
 
March 15 (12 - 1:30 pm, Public Policy 5391)
   Hector Cordero-Guzman, Sociology, CUNY
    "The Cross-border Activities of Community Based Organizations”
 
Spring 2007 meetings: 

April 12 
   Danielle Juteau, Sociology, University of Montreal
   "Multiculturalism beyond Recognition and Redistribution" 
 
April 26 
   Elizabeth Fussell, Sociology, Tulane
   "New Orleans as a New Migrant Destination"
 
May 10
   David Pederson, Anthropology, UCSD
   " 'From Golden Grain' to 'Family Remittances': Migrants, Money and Modernity in El Salvador"
 
May 24
   Donna Gabaccia, History, University of Minnesota
   "Nations of Immigrants: Do Words Matter?"
 
June 7
   Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Asian-American Studies, UCLA
   "Reconsidering Japanese American Resettlement: A Post-Redress Perspective"