Keynote Speaker Dr. Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center on "The Transition to Diversity In Western Societies: Challenge & Opportunity"
The seeds of Richard Alba's interest in matters ethnic and racial were sown during his childhood in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s and nurtured intellectually at Columbia University, where he received his undergraduate and graduate education, completing his Ph.D. in 1974.
In addition to race/ethnicity, his teaching and research focus on international migration, in the U.S. and in Europe, where he has done research in France and in Germany, with the support of Fulbright grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall Fund and Russell Sage Foundation. His books include Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America (1990); Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity (1985); and, most recently, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (2003), co-written with Victor Nee. The last book won the 2004 Thomas & Znaniecki Book Award of the American Sociological Association and the 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society. It was also the 2003 Honorable mention of the Association of American Publishers for the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Sociology & Anthropology.
He has been elected Vice President of the American Sociological Association and President of the Eastern Sociological Society. Last year, he delivered the Nathan Huggins Lectures at Harvard University. They have led to the book, Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America, which will be published by Harvard University Press in 2009.
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(New) Debates on Belonging: A Graduate Student Conference on Contemporary Issues in Immigration
Hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center's Immigration Working Group (IWG)
All information, including agenda, panels, and abstracts, is available at http://www.gc-immigration.org/gcimmigrationconference
Conference Overview:
With increasing frequency, questions of belonging have dominated the news and public debates on immigration: from the recent introduction of anti-immigrant legislation in many states to the spirited organizing around the DREAM Act and the controversy sparked by Park51's proposal for a Muslim community center near Ground Zero. The prominence of such issues highlights both the fiercely contested nature of belonging in the United States, as well as how diverse groups - whether veteran or newly arrived, documented or undocumented, majority or minority, religious or secular - mobilize and advocate for their claims. While Congress debates and defers decisions on immigration reform on the national level, the question of belonging has distinctly regional and local manifestations. Immigrants and their children are claiming their place in American society, in its schools, workplaces and neighborhoods.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together graduate students whose own research bear on these issues. (New) Debates on Belonging explores the many facets of immigrant belonging, incorporation and boundary drawing.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Place/region (communities, new destinations, urban areas)
Policy/activism/public health
Cross-national and historical comparisons
Culture and the arts
Citizenship
Dimensions of difference: gender, race, sexuality, religion, the body
Social institutions: labor and the economy, education, family, the media
Transnationalism
The second generation
Cosponsors:
CUNY Immigration Studies Initiative; CUNY Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Center; CUNY Sociology Dept.; CUNY Sociological Students' Association; CUNY Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
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For more information on the Immigration Working Group, you can look here:
http://www.gc-immigration.org/home
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