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2007 - 2008 Speaker Series

Meetings are Fridays in Haines 279 from 12:00 - 1:30 pm, unless otherwise noted 

For more information, contact Roger Waldinger (waldinge@soc.ucla.edu)

Fall 2007 meetings 

October 5
 Author Meets Critics Session: Author, Hiroshi Motomura, visiting Professor UCLA Law School,

    Americans in Waiting

 Critics: Karen Orren, Political Science, and Roger Waldinger, Sociology 

October 19
   Vikki Katz, Annenberg School, USC

   "Making the Connection: What Immigrant Children Do For Their Families and How It Matters"

November 2
   Leo Morales, Public Health and Internal Medicine, UCLA
   "Second Generational Decline in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Fact or Fiction?"

November 16
   Jean Phinney, Psychology, Cal State - Los Angeles
   "Variation in the Immigrant Experience: Individual, Ethnic Group, and Societal Differences

     across 13 Countries"

November 30
   Ron Gallimore, GSEIS, UCLA, and Estela Zarate, Education, UCI
   "Lessons from the Latino Home-School Project"

Winter 2008 meetings: 

January 11

   Katherine Donato, Sociology, Vanderbilt

   "Public Service Use and Contributions among Mexican Immigrants: 

   An Assessment of Post-Reform Shifts" 

   Co-sponsored with the California Center for Population Research

    3:00 - 5:00 pm - Didactic workshop on gender and migration: for more information, 

    please contact Roger Waldinger at waldinge@soc.ucla.edu

January 25  
   All day workshop on Central American Migration with Sociology and Political Science 

     Graduate Students (by invitation only - interested persons should please contact 

     Roger Waldinger at waldinge@soc.ucla.edu

   Susan Coutin, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI and Aberlardo Morales, FLASCO - Costa Rica

February 8 
   Daniel Tichenor, Political Science, Rutgers

   "A Movement Wrestling: American Labor's Evolving Struggle over Immigration, 1870 - present"

   Co-sponsored with the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

    3:00 - 5:00 pm - Didactic workshop on immigration policy: for more information, 

    please contact Roger Waldinger at waldinge@soc.ucla.edu

February 22 (10383 Bunche Hall)
   Max Neiman, Public Policy Institute of California

   "Spilling Over: The Migration of Concern for Immigration to Other Policy Preferences"

March 5 (Wednesday,  12 - 1:30 pm,  9383 Bunche Hall,)
   Sara Curran, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

   "Migration, Migrant Social Capital and the Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand"

   Co-sponsored with the California Center for Population Research

2006 - 2007 Speaker Series