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UC San Diego Speaker Series

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Friday,March 24 (2:00-2:45 p.m.)

ENFORCINGBORDERS AND AVOIDING REALITIES: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE U.S.-MEXICO DIVIDE

Wayne Cornelius, Director, CCIS;Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations, UCSD

Keynoteaddress for a symposium on “Rethinking Latin American Frontiers: Borders,Boundaries, and the Transformation of the Nation-State,” to be held in the WeaverCenter, Institute of the Americas complex

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Tuesday,April 4 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

ETHNICIZINGIMMIGRANTS: HOW MIGRANT ETHNICITY AFFECTS ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OUTCOMES INEUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES

Amelie Constant, Deputy Director ofthe Migration Program, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany

Klaus F.Zimmermann, Full Professor of Economics, University ofBonn, and Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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Tuesday, April 18 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

SILENTDEATH AND THE MORAL STATE: MAKING BORDERS AND SOVEREIGNTY AT EUROPE’SSOUTHERN MARITIME EDGES

Maurizio Albahari, Visiting ResearchFellow, CCIS; Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of California-Irvine

Commentator:EikoThielemann, Guest Scholar, CCIS; Assistant Professor ofEuropean Politics and Policy, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

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Tuesday, May 16 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

FORTRESSRUSSIA: AN OVERVIEW OF THE 2005 RUSSIAN FEDERATION SURVEY ON IMMIGRATIONATTITUDES AND ETHNIC RELATIONS

MikhailAlexseev, Associate Professor of Political Science,San Diego State University

Commentator:Wayne Cornelius, Director, CCIS

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Wednesday,May 31 (3:30-5:00 p.m.)

ECONOMICRESTRUCTURING, NEW MIGRANT-SENDING COMMUNITIES, AND YOUNG RURAL LIVES INPUEBLA, MEXICO

Josefa (Fina)Carpena-Méndez, Visiting Research Fellow, Center forU.S.-Mexican Studies and CCIS; Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University ofCalifornia-Berkeley

Thisis a joint seminar with the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies that will be heldin the Deutz Room, CopleyConference Center, Institute of the Americas complex

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Tuesday,June 6 (3:00-5:00 p.m.)

RISINGTENSIONS BETWEEN NATIONAL AND LOCAL IMMIGRATION POLICY: MATRICULAS CONSULARES,DRIVER’S LICENSES AND THE UNDOCUMENTED

Monica Varsanyi, Visiting ResearchFellow, CCIS; Ph.D. in Geography, University of California-Los Angeles

Commentator:Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professorof Sociology, UCSD

Thisis a joint seminar with the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

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Allevents (unless otherwise noted) will be held in Conference Room 115 on thefirst floor of the Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building. Fordirections go to http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/directions.htm or call (858)822-4447. Papers presented at previous CCIS seminars can be downloaded from http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/working_papers.htm

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