UC San Diego Summer Immigration Institute

The 2006 Institute is a collaborative project of UC-San Diego’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and the Social Science Research Council’s International Migration Program. he Summer Institute has two main components: (1) training workshops for junior participants led by senior scholars (June 19-20, 23) on issues pertaining to research design and methodology in immigration studies, and (2) two days of conference sessions (June 21-22), which will give junior scholars an opportunity to present their research and receive comments from senior faculty. The conference will also include plenary sessions in which senior faculty will debate issues central to the study of international migration. Training workshops will cover general research methodologies (historical, ethnographic, quantitative, comparative, community-based, etc.), specific approaches to studying certain immigration research topics, and issues related to academic professionalization (publishing, funding immigration research, grant-writing, the academic job search process, curriculum development, etc.). Conference and plenary sessions will focus on key topics of multidisciplinary significance, depending on the interests of participating junior scholars and faculty. Possible topics include transnational migrant behavior; gender differences in international migration and integration patterns; diasporas; ethnicity, citizenship, and nationalism; emigration policies of migrant-sending countries; immigration and refugee policy-making in cross-national perspective; outcomes of immigration control policies; the functioning of immigrant-dominated labor markets; immigrant political participation in sending and receiving countries; determinants of public opinion toward immigrants; the education of immigrant children; and integration of second-generation immigrant minorities. The Institute will also include an extensive tour of the U.S.-Mexico border by the U.S. Border Patrol. Approximately 25 junior participants for the Summer Institute will be selected through a competitive application process. Applicants must be advanced graduate students working on their dissertations or recent postdoctoral scholars (Ph.D. received in the last 4 years). The application form can be downloaded from the

CCIS website and must be postmarked by February 28, 2006. Decisions will be announced by March 15. Admitted junior scholars will be required to pay their own airfare, but all other expenses (local transportation, lodging, meals) will be covered. Immigration studies faculty who will be invited to participate in the 2006 Summer Institute include Marisa Abrajano (UCSD), Rafael Alarcón (COLEF, Tijuana, Mexico), Robert Alvarez (UCSD), Frank Bean (UC Irvine), Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley), Susan Brown (UC Irvine), David Card (UC Berkeley), William Chandler (UCSD), Leo Chávez (UC Irvine), Wayne Cornelius (UCSD), Louis DeSipio (UC Irvine), Josh DeWind (SSRC), Yen Espiritu (UCSD), Adrian Favell (UCLA), David Fitzgerald (CCIS-UCSD), Donna Gabaccia (U. of North Carolina-Charlotte), David Gutiérrez (UCSD), Gordon Hanson (UCSD), James Hollifield (Southern Methodist University), Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (USC), Tomás Jiménez (UCSD), April Linton (UCSD), Philip Martin (UC Davis), Everard Meade (UCSD), Cecilia Menjivar (ASU), Lisa Park (UCSD), David Pedersen (UCSD), Marc Rosenblum (U. of New Orleans/MPI), George Sánchez (USC), David Shirk (U. of San Diego), John Skrentny (UCSD), Eiko Thielemann (London School of Economics), Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda (UCSD/ASU), Monica Varsanyi (CCIS-UCSD), Roger Waldinger (UCLA), Mary Waters (Harvard U.), Chris Woodruff (UCSD), Henry Yu (UCLA), and Elana Zilberg (UCSD). The Fourth Annual Summer Institute is made possible by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the following University of California-San Diego units: Senior Vice Chancellor, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, Division of Social Sciences, and Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies. For further information, please contact Gaku Tsuda

, Associate Director, CCIS, UCSD (Tel.: 858-822-0526).