"Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move" Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst Today, the concept of "the refugee" as distinct from other migrants looms large. Immigration laws have developed to reinforce a dichotomy between those viewed as voluntary, often economically motivated, migrants who can be legitimately excluded by potential host states, and... Read more »
"Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" Speaker: Cynthia Cranford, University of Toronto Mississauga Home care is a window into the complexity of inequality. In this talk, I focus on my recently published book Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances in which I argue that, in home care, understanding both... Read more »
Speakers: Richard Ocejo, John Jay College and GC, Chief Editor of City and Community Jessica Hardie, Hunter College and GC (on article publishing) Hayden Ju, GC (on article publishing from a grad student's perspective)
"African Americans in Suburbs and Coastal Communities: Two Projects on Achieving Security and Facing Structural Risks" Speaker: Greg Smithsimon, Professor at Brooklyn College and GC Gregory Smithsimon’s forthcoming book, Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism, looks at middle-class suburbs outside Baltimore to understand how residents use the... Read more »
"Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY" Tarry Hum, Queens College This is an online event. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Filiz Garip, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY Mary Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and the John L. Loeb... Read more »
Speaker: Arun Hendi, Princeton University Title: "Where Does the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap Come From? The Deadly Effects of Residential Segregation" In 2018, newborn black boys and girls could expect to live for 71 and 78 years, respectively. The last time white life expectancy levels were that low was in 1980, meaning that black life... Read more »
States of Belonging:Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion Tomás R. Jiménez, Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University Register here to receive Zoom link.
Speaker: Denise Milstein, Co-Director of the NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive at Columbia University; Ryan Hagen, Post-doctoral Research Scholar at Columbia University Title:"Repertoires of repair: confronting ontological insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City" How do people make sense of a world fundamentally unsettled by contagion? The pandemic spread of... Read more »
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University Co-sponsors: Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) and Asian American Studies Program & Center, Hunter College Register here to receive Zoom link.
