Please join us for the presentation and lunch on October 17, noon to 1:45pm in the lounge. Approximately 25% of Marseille’s diverse low-income population resides in pubic housing estates on the city’s north side. This brown-bag presentation by William Kornblum and Jean Sylva will discuss the myths and realities of social life in these neighborhoods,... Read more »
Please join us for the talk and the reception after in the lounge. Speaker: Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan Drawing from ethnographic and interview data collected from a study of black mothers and children who are members of an elite social club, this talk explores the transmission of a black, distinctly middle-class culture from the... Read more »
"Civil Justice and Social Inequality" Speaker: Rebecca Sandefur, Arizona State University/Russell Sage Foundation Description: Millions of Americans every year face civil justice problems that can lead to bankruptcy, homelessness, poverty, family separation, and ill health. Thinking about civil justice in a new way, as a social institution, propels a growing research evidence base that reveals how civil justice contributes to inequality. At the same time, this evidence provides opportunities to... Read more »
The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. Please come and join us! Light refreshments will be served. Daniela Pila (University at Albany, SUNY): Legal Status Fluidity: How Filipino Immigrants Navigate Immigration Pathways Xuemeng Li (CUNY Sociology) Chris Maggio (CUNY... Read more »
"The Border is Back: Immigration Discourse, Policy, and Outcomes in Europe and the United States" Speaker: Martin Schain, Professor of Politics Emeritus, New York University
The CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) invites you to the first presentation of the CIDR Demography Seminar Series for academic year 2019-20: Title: "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority and Minority in 21st Century America" Speaker: Professor Richard Alba CUNY Graduate Center Location Information: Baruch College - Newman Vertical Campus (View Map) 55 Lexington Ave New York, NY... Read more »
Student paper discussion: Sebastian (dissertation work) Journal review session: We decided to do some research on the existing urban studies journals and their scope; each of us would pick one journal, look at its most recent issues and online articles with a goal to identify the journal's thematic preferences, the overall style of publications, etc.... Read more »
"What's Gender Got to Do With It? Deepening the Ethnographic Imagination" Speaker: Professors Lynn Chancer and Michaela Soyer
The Return of the Native: Similarities and Differences between Western-Europe and the US in Anti-Black Racism, Islamophobia, and Populism Public Lecture by Professor Duyvendak (Amsterdam) Co-Sponsored by the Immigration Seminar Series and Program in Sociology, CUNY
The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. Please come and join us! Light refreshments will be served. Isabel Gil Everaert (CUNY Sociology): Central American Migration in Mexico Karen Okigbo (CUNY Sociology) Adam Brooks (Columbia Social Work): Refugees and mental... Read more »
