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1. (#1) 12/12-13, Paris - Annual conference on immigration in OECD countries
2. (#2) 1/2-5, DC - Immigration at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting
3. (#3) 1/3-6, New York, NY - Immigration at the American Historical Association annual meeting - [Updated with program]
4. (#4) 1/3-6, San Diego - Immigration at the American Economic Association annual meeting
5. (#5) 1/13, San Diego - Book discussion: Citizenship in Hard Times
6. (#6) 1/16, Paris - OECD forum on building a whole-of-society approach to emerging migration and integration challenges
7. (#7) 1/16-19, DC - Immigration at the Society for Social Work and Research annual conference - [New Listing]
8. (#8) 1/17, Paris - Conference on making migration and integration policies future ready
9. (#9) 1/19-21, Cairo - IOM/OECD International Forum on Migration Statistics
10. (#10) 1/21-24, Quito, Ecuador - Annual Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development - [New Listing]
11. (#11) 1/23, Toronto - Discussion on Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime - [New Listing]
12. (#12) 2/4, Toronto - Discussion on State responsibilities towards refugees under the 1967 Protocol to the 1951 Convention - [New Listing]
13. (#13) 2/24, San Diego - Seminar on the White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression
14. (#14) 2/27, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migrant lives at Israel’s margins - [New Listing]
15. (#15) 3/13, Cambridge, MA - Lecture on migration stories from interwar Hungary - [New Listing]

Immigration in OECD Countries - 9th Annual International Conference

Thursday-Friday, December 12-13, 2019
OECD Boulogne Conference Centre - 46
quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Paris, France
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Description: The conference will examine the economic aspects of international migration in OECD countries by mapping the migratory flows and defining their socio-economic determinants and consequences. Topics of interest for the conference include, among others, the determinants of immigration to the OECD, migrants’ self-selection, the labor market and public finance effects of immigration, as well as migrants and refugees social, political and economic integration.

The Keynote speakers are:

Uta Schoenberg, University College of London
Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University
Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po

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Association of American Law Schools annual meeting

Thursday-Sunday, January 2–5, 2020
Marriott Wardman Park
2660 Woodley Road NW
Washington, DC 20008
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Immigration-related sessions:

Friday, January 3, 2020

8:30-10:15 a.m.
Immigration Control and Environmental Regulation: Toward Justice?

Natural disasters and social conflicts spurred by deteriorating environmental conditions and climate change are driving people to move across borders. Economically disadvantaged communities, racial minorities, and indigenous people are often in the first wave of displaced people in the world’s poorer countries. These same communities are also the most heavily impacted by pollution and environmental degradation in the places that they live and work in the United States. This panel will explore the issues of immigration and environmental regulation. How do environmental regulatory and deregulatory schemes in the U.S. impact immigrant communities? How have arguments about the effects of immigrants on the environment been used to restrict migration and the rights of migrants? How should existing domestic and international legal frameworks governing migration be revised to respond to environmentally motivated migration?

1:30-3:15 p.m.
Exploring Immigrant Justice from Intersectional Perspectives

This panel will consider justice for immigrants. Since the 2016 election, Trump’s policies and discourse surrounding immigration have fundamentally challenged the pillars of democracy. In the process of regulating who can come in and remain in the US, immigration law and policy touches on how we conceive of family, work, criminal justice, civil rights, and international law. This program focuses on those engaged in teaching and scholarship that is intersectional with immigration law such as criminal law, employment and labor rights, human rights, and community economic development. In particular, it seeks to create a dialogue between clinical and non-clinical faculty and consider how such perspectives could help push the boundaries of what justice looks like for immigrant communities.

3:30-5:15 p.m.
New Voices in Immigration Law: Works in Progress

New voices in immigration law will have the opportunity to present works-in-progress and receive feedback from senior scholars. Presenters were selected from a call for papers.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
The Challenge of International Law in Dealing with the Causes of the Global Refugee Crisis: Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Gross Human Rights Abuses Perpetrated by State and Non-State Actors

Most scholarly attention has focused on the receiving countries’ harsh response to the worldwide refugee crisis. Relatively few scholars have focused on its causes—why so many, primarily from the Global South, have left their homes. Our main program will attempt to answer this critical question and analyze the role of international law.

1:30-3:15 p.m.
Federal Courts at the Border

In recent years, growing dysfunction in the United States' immigration system has put pressure upon the federal courts to play a central role in lawmaking at the nation's border. Disputes about asylum and refugee policy, the proposed border wall, cross-border shootings, and the application of the Suspension Clause to undocumented immigrants have underscored the difficult role of federal courts at the border. This panel will consider federal court doctrines that bear upon the availability of judicial review at the border, asking whether and to what extent those doctrines create zones free from judicial oversight. It will also ask in what ways recent challenges to immigration law and policy have shaped the doctrines of federal courts law. Finally, the panel will look to see what light disputes at the border may shed upon the design of and practical constraints upon the federal courts system.

Sunday, January 5, 2020

8:30-10:15 a.m.
Recent Developments: How Easily Can Agencies Change Regulatory Policy in Immigration & Civil Rights?

The use of guidance documents in regulatory agencies is one of the most challenging aspects of administrative law. When an agency uses a guidance document to change or make policy, it need not provide notice to the public or allow comment on the new rule. This makes change easier, faster, and less subject to review. Under previous administrations, guidance documents were used to implement policies in many subject areas, including civil rights and immigration. The current administration has rolled back many of these policies. This program consists of a moderated panel on recent developments in the use of guidance documents. The speakers will highlight two reports to the Administrative Conference of the United States proposing changes to Administrative Procedure Act and an executive order mandating increased use of notice and comment. They will comment on controversies involving DACA and Title IX that demonstrate the stakes of change.

3:30-5:15 p.m.
Scaling the Invisible Wall: Bureaucratic Controls Over Legal Immigration

This session will examine the “invisible wall,” a term that refers to non-statutory hurdles faced by legal immigrants. Executive branch actions at times affect access to legal immigration despite statutory opportunities. Changes in agency policy, changes in agency mood, or other phenomena can narrow the availability of legal opportunities for immigration. Examples of the invisible wall include preventing asylum seekers from accessing the border, increased denial rates of applications for legal status, and slower processing times of applications for legal status. The invisible wall implicates separation of powers principles because it questions the boundaries of executive branch enforcement. It also challenges notions of transparency in administrative law and raises questions about how attorneys should respond to the challenges of the invisible wall. The invisible wall also highlights the need to explore the principles that should influence the design and governance of a legal immigration
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American Historical Association annual meeting

Friday-Monday, January 3-6, 2020
The New York Hilton
1335 Avenue of the Americas
The Sheraton New York
811 7th Avenue
New York, NY
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Immigration-related sessions:

Friday, January 3, 2020

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Liberty, Legitimacy, and Forced Migrations across Empires: Refugees in the Ottoman, Russian, and Hapsburg Empires, 1848–1920

Papers:
Fight, Flight, and Negotiating the Road Back Home: Hungarian and Polish ’48ers under Ottoman Protection
Jared Manasek, Pace University

Leaving the Ottoman Empire: Muslim Return Migration to Russia and Refugee Crises on the Russo-Ottoman Border, 1865–80
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Columbia University, Harriman Institute

Bounding Communities: Identifying Immigrants in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908–14
Ella Fratantuono, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

State Legitimacy and Refugee Settlement on the Frontier of Southern Syria, 1878–1920
Patrick Adamiak, University of California, San Diego

Session Abstract: From 1848 to the end of WWI, millions of migrants crossed the changing boundaries of the Russian, Ottoman, and Hapsburg Empires. These migrants fled consolidating state control over spaces, which was accompanied not only by greater control over movement but also by a politics geared toward homogenizing populations. In turn, in an era of hardening exclusive nationalisms, migrants sought refuge among coreligionists or co-ethnics with increasing frequency. The papers in this panel engage specifically with migration and settlement around the Black Sea, ranging from the flight of Hungarians and Poles into the Ottoman Empire following the political upheaval of 1848 to the movement of Circassians, Chechens, and Daghestanis into the Balkans, Anatolia, and Syria. Taken together, they consider anew the applicability of frameworks of “forced” or “free,” emphasize the agency of refugees, explore how empires’ responses to movement intertwined with new claims of legitimacy
internationally and within their territories, and evaluate how migrants engaged with and became discursively attached to concepts of coercion and liberty in pre- and post-revolutionary contexts.

The field of migration history has long grappled with the conceptual distinction between “free” and forced migrations. In the past two decades, scholars working in the field have explored the complexity of migrants’ motivations. They have excavated the ways in which scholars’ categorizations of movement have led to a concurrent segmentation and even racialization of various migrations. For example, historians have outlined how the distinction between forced and free contributed to American exceptionalism in its “nation of immigrants” myth, cast movement occurring beyond the Atlantic as different from the industrialized “age of mass migration,” or suggested that even within a world economic system, those outside of Transatlantic systems moved only in response to European penetration and economic integration. This panel applies those insights to an essential and understudied geography that encompasses different degrees, agents, and experiences of violence and coercion, and in which people
moved within complex and existing trans-imperial networks that themselves involved enslavement and coercion.

Each paper on this panel evaluates migration outcomes from the perspectives of migrants and states. The papers revisit questions of how religion shaped the directionality and experiences of migrants in an era in which political rights were increasingly tied to ethno-religious categories. Rather than simple stories of the “unmixing of peoples” according to religion, the papers open up new venues to consider the importance, if any, that migrants attached to religion as they moved within and between empires. While the panel is interested in the experiences of migrants themselves, it is likewise interested in the ways in which migrations shaped shifting claims of legitimacy among imperial states, highlighting the promises and failures of developing infrastructures of aid, measurement, and territoriality. In doing so, the panel contributes to scholarship on the long history of displacement and administrative response in the making of post-Hapsburg, post-Ottoman, and post-Russian states.

The Other Illegals: Unauthorized European Immigration to the US in the 20th Century

Papers:
White Illegals: Italian Migrants and the Rise of a Global Regime of Immigration Restriction
Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College

Legalizing the Impossible Subject: The White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression
S. Deborah Kang, California State University, San Marcos

The Privileges of Illegality: Unauthorized Italian Immigration to the United States and Adjustment of Status in the 20th Century
Danielle Battisti, University of Nebraska, Omaha

3:30-5:00 p.m.
In the Hands of the People: Negotiating US Immigration Policy from Below

Papers:
Alien Contract Labor Law and the Problem of Imported Labor in Gilded Age America
Hidetaka Hirota, Sophia University

To Have Your Chop Suey and Eat It Too: Chinese Restaurant Owners’ Battle for Immigration Privileges, 1897–1919
Heather R. Lee, NYU Shanghai

The War Brides Acts and Engagements under Military Rule
Julian Lim, Arizona State University

Session Abstract: This panel suggests how individuals affected by discriminatory laws and policies found that by acting collectively, they could ameliorate those provisions of discriminatory legislation that most menaced their rights and interests. Presenters focus on three particular areas where the law significantly shaped Americans’ and foreigners’ lives: labor, business, and marriage. In oftentimes forgotten ways, small actors in the past stood their ground, when American policies and enforcers attempted to strip rights from them. As individuals, they usually fail, but through collective efforts, they have successfully pushed against interests and forces much larger than themselves. This panel provides new perspectives on agency in the history of US immigration law by analyzing how ordinary Americans and immigrants endorsed, challenged, and manipulated the law outside policymakers’ offices.

The panelists examine collective efforts influencing the inclusions and exclusions of American immigration law. Hidetake Hirota focuses on the 1885 Alien Contract Labor Law, showing how fear of foreign workers inspired racial nationalism among US voters in all states. Hirota argues that question of immigration control was elevated from a regional issue confined to coastal states to one that unified white natives against racialized foreigners. Heather Lee shifts the conversation from the advocates to the subjects of restrictive immigration laws. Lee demonstrates that the numerous court appeals and challenges brought by the Chinese changed the enforcement of Chinese exclusion laws in meaningful ways in the early twentieth century. The Chinese created breathing room under the suffocating blanket of Chinese Exclusion, which aimed to end most, if not all, their emigration to the United States. Julian Lim demonstrates how immigrants leveraged federal immigration laws against discriminatory state
laws. She traces how the War Brides Acts of the post-World War II era created an opening for certain U.S. soldiers to bring their foreign wives and fiancees to the United States. In particular, she examines the interracial unions between American soldiers - both black and white servicemen - and European and Asian women, and the ways in which such federally-sanctioned interracial unions challenged state anti-miscegenation laws.

These histories disrupt the clean lines of historical specialization, bringing together the fields of foreign policy, legal history, labor history, social history, and the history of capitalism to bear on immigration history. The panel also offers an alternative conceptualization of agency, one that gives weight to how actors leveraged their differing subject positions.

These histories of the American past urge us to pay attention to the small scale strategies of people on the ground. In moment of heightened racial nationalism, the proclamations from the Oval Office and the halls of Congress provide parts of the whole. The average advocate and subject create meaning and intention out of federal legislation. On the battlegrounds of immigration offices, these parties negotiate the actual borders between inclusion and exclusion. This panel is sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Two senior historians of American immigration, Alan Kraut and Lucy Salyer, will serve as chair and commentator, respectively.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

8:30-10:00 a.m.
Migrants' Nature: Mobility, Labor, and the Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Papers:
Drought and Diaspora: Mexican Mennonite “Braceros” and Northern Mexico’s Mid-20th-Century Drought
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Washington State University

Migrant Workers and the Turtle Trade in the Brazilian Amazon at the Turn of the 20th Century
Thaís Sant'ana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Great Calamities”: Spaniards, Africans, and the Laboring Environments of Late Colonial Cuba, 1851–92
Oscar de la Torre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Servants of the Seasons: Glimpses of Labor Mobility across the Early Americas
Molly A. Warsh, University of Pittsburgh

Session Abstract: This panel examines the links between migration, labor and the natural world in both the early modern and modern contexts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The featured papers offer comparative and ecological perspectives on the movement of unsettled peoples within regions and across borders, on the ways migrant workers build their own society-nature relations in their destinations, and on these processes' implications. A close look at African and indigenous laborers conducting seasonal work in the early-modern Americas reveals important connections between itinerant labor and climate change, and challenges conventional narratives of slavery and freedom. In late colonial Cuba, unhealthy laboring environments threatened the lives of both Spanish and African workers, and became one of the most important factors in shaping the social crisis that affected the island in the context of Cuban struggle for independence. In the Brazilian Amazon at the turn of the twentieth
century, the local government’s attempt to limit the trade in turtles encountered resistance among caboclo migrant workers who helped promote a public debate on natural resource conservation, cultural tradition, and state intervention in the region’s economy. In mid-twentieth-century Northern Mexico, devastating droughts led low-German speaking Mennonites to become seasonal “braceros.” They helped foster, as a consequence, a culture of long-distance migration that transformed farming in Northern Mexico and in Mennonite colonies of Canada.

The papers in this panel critically engage several linked questions. How can we understand labor and mobility from an ecological perspective? How does the environment inform the experiences of migrant workers? How can historians assess freedom of choice in scenarios where changes in the natural world and the work of migrants are interconnected? How do ecological perspectives on migrants and nature reframe long-standing issues and debates in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean?

In highlighting the multiform relationship between human agency and the environment, this panel moves beyond the human-nature dichotomy. Instead, it proposes new avenues for conceptualizing how migrant workers shaped spatial, cultural, ecologic, political and economic processes and outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The Changing History of Immigration in NYC: Digital Community Archivists

Papers:
NHPRC Project in Flushing High School
John Ronzino, high school teacher

NHPRC Project in Xavier High School
Stephen F. Haller, Xavier High School

NHPRC Project at the High School for Environmental Studies
Jeremy Mellema, high school teacher

NHPRC Project at Brooklyn Tech
Judith Jeremie, high school teacher; Sean McManamon, Brooklyn Technical High School

NHPRC Project at Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Jennifer Stalec, high school teacher

Session Abstract: Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Queens Immigration Project employs inquiry-based approaches to family history for New York City Public School grade 10 teachers who wish to inspire their students to employ historical methods and thinking, while learning research and digital literacy skills. The goal of the project is to develop curricula and resources to inspire inquiry-based that addresses questions of globalization and immigration and to engage teachers and students in the research and re-use of extant, freely available digital historical records.

Over the past two years, teachers have employed the project to collect students’ immigration stories about their families and their neighborhoods. Students have documented the push and pull factors of immigration, and they have documented how their neighborhoods have changed over time by capturing oral histories of neighbors, friends, and family and researching the events that people described and creating an artifact to share through EngageNY, New York’s open educational resource platform.
In this practicum, the two Principal Investigators (Kathy Shaughnessy and Elaine Carey) and the grant project assistant, John Ronzino, will present the NHPRC platform as a tool for teachers.

Diasporas Imagined and Created: Migrants, Exiles, and Refuges in Africa, Europe, and the Americas

Papers:
Making the Gulf World: 19th-Century Migrations in and in between Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
Dalia A. Muller, State University of New York, University at Buffalo

From Sojourn to Settlement: The 20th-Century Migration of Highly Skilled Nigerians to the United States
Mary E. Dillard, Sarah Lawrence College

Religion and Migration: Stories from African Lisbon
Michelle Johnson, Bucknell University

Session Abstract: Migration is an integral part of human societies, across all historical eras. People’s acts of migration globally reveal a great deal about the individual and collective experience. In light of people’s growing comfort with leaving home to seek out opportunities, in parts of the world with little immediate connection to the familiar, combined with growing discomfort and concerns over climate change, economic instabilities, and political authoritarianism it is critical that historians look to and work more closely with the sciences and social sciences to make sense of and write narratives of migration. This panel examines migrations within and out of previously colonized societies. Drawing on various forms of social science and humanities data and methodologies, these papers provide important insights into rationales, approaches, and sensibilities individuals have to migration as well as how places, identities, and the sense of belonging are being made in the process of
these various forced and chosen migrations.

Shifting the Boundaries of Inclusion: Immigrant Rights in the 20th-Century United States

Papers:
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Origins of the Immigrant Rights Movement
Maggie Elmore, University of Notre Dame

“An Act of Public Witness”: Sanctuary, Religious Spaces, and Immigration Activism in Midwestern Sanctuary Movements
Sergio M. González, Marquette University

“To Reward the Wrong Way Is Not the American Way": Welfare, Immigrants’ Rights, and the Battle over Benefits
Sarah Coleman, Texas State University

Session Abstract: “Shifting the Boundaries of Inclusion: Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century United States” consists of three papers that consider how different groups - religious organizations, civil rights groups, international human rights activists, and immigration restrictionists - sought to define immigrants rights in the late 20th century United States. At the core of the panel, is a historical analysis of the nature of American identity in the post-Civil Rights Era. The panel examines competing claims of citizenship. It expands our understanding of citizenship and belonging by placing efforts to define immigrant rights within the larger context of battles over the meaning and nature of the US’s social contract. In so doing, the panel contributes to emerging scholarship on the immigrant rights movement, as well as the post 1960s US political landscape.

Taken together, these three papers reveal the contested battles to expand and restrict the circle of inclusion in the 20th century United States. Elmore’s paper highlights how immigrant rights activists attempted to use the language of human rights to secure justice for undocumented immigrants. Gonzalez reveals how religious organizations took the lead in providing sanctuary for Central American refugees, creating a political movement in which people of faith challenged the limitations of US refugee and asylee policies. Coleman’s paper traces the convergence immigrant restrictionists and welfare reformers whose efforts ultimately ushered in a new era in US immigration policy. Collectively, these papers reveal the legal, social, and political challenges that immigrants and their advocates have faced in attempting to secure immigrants’ inclusion into the broader social fabric of the United States.

Our panel also raises questions about the relationship between the state and the non citizen residents. To what rights are immigrants in the United States entitled? What responsibilities does the state have to noncitizen residents - both documented and undocumented? In what ways have immigrant rights groups and immigration restrictionists sought to expand or limit the boundaries of inclusion? How might this history help us to better understand contemporary debates about the status of undocumented peoples and immigration restriction? S. Deborah Kang, whose recent scholarship highlights the relationship between law and society at the nation’s borders, will provide the comment and chair the panel.

Sunday, January 5, 2020

8:30-10:00 a.m.
The Go-Betweens: Youth, Migration, and Knowledge Transfer

Papers:
Going Native: Teaching Indigenous Knowledge in Protestant Mission Schools, 1900–30
Elisabeth Engel, German Historical Institute Washington

“What They Should Know”: The Role of Knowledge for Missionary and Indigenous Children
Simone Laqua-O'Donnell, University of Birmingham

Routes of Knowledge: Growing Up German in Chile, 1900–50
H. Glenn Penny, University of Iowa

Knowing Race: African Youth in France at the End of Empire
Emily Marker, Rutgers University–Camden

Session Abstract: Knowledge is a matter for grown-ups, or so scholarship in the history of knowledge would seem to suggest. Children and adolescents have scarcely figured in the rapidly growing literature on the history of knowledge, be it as subjects of adult study or as knowledge actors in their own right. The proposed session seeks not only to address this research lacuna but also to open new avenues of inquiry by focusing on two distinctive yet highly diverse groups: first, young people who migrated to new knowledge cultures and, second, children and adolescents who didn’t migrate but were confronted with “migrated” knowledge from abroad that often became hegemonic within their own cultures.

Working at the intersection of knowledge, migration, colonial history and youth studies, the session participants aim to demonstrate that studying young people in transnational, colonial and migration-related contexts can reveal unrecognized but socially relevant processes of knowledge formation and underappreciated connections among producers and translators of knowledge. The four papers will shed new light on these connections by considering young people in different settings of migration and knowledge circulation. The session will demonstrate the value of employing a broad understanding of knowledge that extends beyond formally educated actors and academically sanctioned knowledge orders.

Recent scholarship has built important foundations for such a knowledge-centered inquiry, but it also points to desiderata. Historians of education and historians of migration have so far focused on concepts like assimilation and cultural conflict, and they have usually viewed young people as passive receivers of a hegemonic knowledge transmitted to them. The organizers and participants of this session, which brings together scholars from the history of the Americas, European history, and global history, propose another perspective. They argue that we can productively apprehend young people as historical actors who were able to translate between cultures and produce new knowledge in processes of migration and cultural translation. Because of their grounding in multiple cultures, young migrants often became important go-betweens, as young people did in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The panelists argue that young people modified migrated knowledge and turned knowledge produced for and
conveyed to them into new and often subversive bodies of knowledge co-created by them.

Two of four papers will explore the knowledge young migrants produced in transnational settings. Simone Laqua-O’Donnell presents a case study on missionary families before World War I. Emily Marker considers students from Africa in France after 1945. The other two papers will reflect on situations where knowledge rather than young people migrated: Protestant mission schools in British colonies in Sub-Sahara Africa (Elisabeth Engel) and German schools in Chile (Glenn Penny). In his comment, Swen Steinberg will consider the points of intersection of these four case studies from a theoretical perspective and on the constellation of young people, knowledge, and migration as a promising field of historical investigation.

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Immigration, Refugees, and Anti-Semitism: American Dilemmas

Papers:
Are Professors Worth Saving? American Universities' Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe
Laurel Leff, Northeastern University

New Research on America’s Responses to the International Refugee Crises in the 1930s and Today
Rafael Medoff, David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies

Spreading Nazi Anti-Semitism on the American Campus
Stephen Norwood, University of Oklahoma

Session abstract: U.S. immigration policy, and Americans’ responses to international refugee crises, were matters of intense public debate in the 1930s, as they are today. In this session, three of the leading scholars in the field of American responses to Nazism and the Holocaust will present their latest research on Americans’ responses, and the factors that shaped them. Dr. Medoff will examine heretofore unexplored aspects of the U.S. government’s immigration policy, then and now; Prof. Leff will address the question of how American universities responded to the plight of European refugee scholars; and Prof. Norwood will explore efforts by the Nazi regime to spread antisemitism on American campuses, and how those efforts affected public opinion and policy. The audience for this session will include scholars of immigration history, racism, U.S. foreign policy, Jewish history, and the Holocaust.

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American Economic Association annual meeting

Friday-Sunday, January 3-6, 2020
San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina
Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
San Diego, CA
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Immigration-related sessions:

Friday, January 3, 2020

8:00-10:00 a.m.
The Effect of Immigrants on Economic and Political Outcomes in the United States

Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of Natives
David Figlio, Northwestern University
Paola Giuliano, University of California-Los Angeles
Riccardo Marchingiglio, Northwestern University
Umut Ozek, American Institutes for Research
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University

Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the United States
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University
Soumyajit Mazumder, Harvard University
Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School

Immigration, Innovation and Growth
Konrad Burchardi, Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
Thomas Chaney, Sciences Po
Tarek Hassan, Boston University
Lisa Tarquinio, Boston University
Stephen J. Terry, Boston University

Migration and Housing
Paper Session:

International Student Migration and Local Housing Markets
Tatiana Mocanu, University of Illinois
Pedro Tremacoldi-Rossi, University of Illinois

A Tale of Two Cities: The Impact of Cross-Border Migration on Hong Kong's Housing Market
Maggie Hu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yi Fan, National University of Singapore
Xinwei Wan, University of Cambridge

A World Divided: Refugee Centers, House Prices, and Household Preferences
Martijn Droes, University of Amsterdam
Hans Koster, VU University Amsterdam

Migration and Location Choice
Paper Session:

Borrowing Constraints, Migrant Selection, and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration
Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Bocconi University

10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Migration and Development

Paper Session:
Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the United States during the Age of Mass Migration
Santiago Perez, University of California-Davis

Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER

2:30-4:30 p.m.
Effects of Immigration on American Science and Innovation
Paper Session:

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University
Shom Mazumder, Harvard University
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University

Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin F. Jones, Northwestern University
J. Daniel Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Javier Miranda, U.S. Census Bureau

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Job Creation, Job Quality, and Innovation
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Wellesley College
William Kerr, Harvard University

Immigration Quotas and American Science
Petra Moser, New York University
Shmuel San, New York University

Saturday, January 4, 2020

8:00-10:00 a.m.
Consequences of Forced Migration
Paper Session:

Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
Pauline A. Grosjean, University of New South Wales
Sascha Becker, University of Warwick
Irena Grosfeld, Paris School of Economics
Nico Voigtländer, University of California-Los Angeles
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics

Brothers or Invaders? How Crises-Driven Migrants Shape Voting Behaviour
Sandra Rozo, University of Southern California
Juan F. Vargas, Del Rosario University

Impact of Syrian Refugees on Education Outcomes in Jordan
Thomas Ginn, Stanford University
Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota
Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics

Refugee Crisis, Flight to Safety and Entrepreneurship
Cevat Giray Aksoy, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Nicolas Ajzenman, Inter-American Development Bank
Sergei Guriev, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Immigration and Assimilation
Paper Session:

Perceptions of Immigrants and Support for Immigration
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University

Rationing Determines Immigrant Composition and Outcomes
Edward Lazear, Stanford University

Discrimination, Assimilation and Immigrant Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Leah Boustan, Princeton University
Katherine Eriksson, University of California-Davis
Stephanie Hao, Princeton University

Determinants and Effects of Migration
Paper Session:

How Immigration Can Raise Wages in Pakistan
Ayesha Mehtab, COMSATS University-Islamabad

The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Native Mortality in Turkey
Aysun Aygun, Istanbul Technical University
Murat Kirdar, Bogazici University

Do French Migration Policies Affect Immigrants Inflows in the MENA Region?
Ines Trojette, ESPI Paris
Doslalo Millogo, University of Norbert-Zongo

Comparing Middle Eastern Migration to Europe, Latin America, and North America
Hisham Foad, San Diego State University

Sunday, January 5, 2020

8:00-10:00 a.m.
Immigration
Paper Session:

A Teacher Likes Having Me in Class: Do Migrant Students Leave Behind?
Jianhao Chen, University of Illinois-Chicago

The Role of Immigrants in the US Labor Market and Chinese Import Competition
Chan Yu, University of Texas-Austin

Forced Migration and the Educational Attainment of Second and Third Generations
Anica Kramer, University of Bamberg, RWI, and IZA

Poor Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway University of London
Benjamin Elsner, University College Dublin
Andreas Lichter, University of Duesseldorf
Nico Pestel, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Immigration and Housing Rents: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
Kathleen Kuerschner Rauck, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Michael Kvasnicka, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Unauthorized Immigration Regulation and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data
Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University
Incheol Kim, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Xiaojing Yuan, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Comparing Poverty of Refugees and Their Hosts

The Syrian Refugee Life Study
Samuel Leone, University of California-Berkeley
Edward Miguel, University of California-Berkeley
Sandra Rozo, University of Southern California
Emma Smith, Harvard University

Collecting Representative Panel Data in a Refugee Setting- Evidence from Bangladesh
C. Austin Davis, American University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
Paula López-Peña, Yale University

Is Imputing Poverty Efficient? An Example from Refugee Data in Chad
Theresa Beltramo, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Ibrahima Sarr, World Bank
Paolo Verme, World Bank
Hai-Anh Deng, World Bank

10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Economic Consequences of Immigration Policy
Paper Session:

Chain Reaction? The Population Spillovers of Immigrant Legalization
Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College

The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party
Marcella Alsan, Stanford University
Katherine Eriksson, University of California-Davis
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University

How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement
Chloe N. East, University of Colorado-Denver
Annie Hines, University of California-Davis
Philip Luck, University of Colorado-Denver
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado-Denver
Andrea Velasquez, University of Colorado-Denver

1:00-3:00 p.m.
Causes of Populism and Its Related Political Preferences
Paper Session:

Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism: Evidence from Two Quasi-Natural Experiments in the United States
Shuai Chen, LISER

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Citizenship in Hard Times

12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, January 13, 2020
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost’s Building, Conference Room 115
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
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Sara Wallace Goodman, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
Co-Director, Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine

Description: What do citizens do in times of democratic crisis? When democracy is under threat, do everyday citizens activate and mobilize, or do they hunker down, demobilize, and express greater support for homogeneity (like speaking English)? Scholars, pundits and policy experts have largely focused on elite behavior and institutional guardrails, but the citizenry is a foundation to any story about democracy under threat. This book is the first to examine civic obligation in unsettled democratic times from the perspective of citizens themselves. It employs a three-country study of the US, UK, and Germany, to examine how democratic citizens define obligation and for whom, comparing native-born and naturalized citizens. Findings highlight the importance of how democratic problems are framed, and puts forward a number of policy prescriptions for overhauling civic education.

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OECD High-Level Policy Forum: Building a Whole-of-Society Approach to Emerging Migration and Integration Challenges

Thursday, January 16, 2020
OECD Conference Centre 2
rue André-Pascal 75775
Paris CEDEX 16 France
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Program:

9:30-10:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Chair or Vice-Chair of the OECD Migration and Integration Ministerial Meeting

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Preparing for the future: lessons from global migration over the past decade

This introductory panel (5-6 participants) will discuss the experiences of countries regarding large migration inflows, and the lessons learned moving forward. It will involve high-level representatives from the UN and from selected OECD countries that have - or had - a key role in contexts of dealing with large migration inflows, as well as the president of a leading think tank. 11:00 – 11:30 Elevator pitches for the Innovation Lab Following a call for proposals with member countries, 10 selected innovative projects related to migration and integration from across OECD countries will be presented in short, 1-minute “elevator pitches”. More detailed presentations of these projects will be made throughout the day in the hall of the OECD Conference Centre.

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Foresight: the future of migration and integration

Presentation and discussion in break-out groups of the results of the foresight exercise of the OECD, focusing on four themes:

(i) the impact of new technologies on migration control and enforcement as well as on

(ii) integration services delivery; and on

(iii) the role of regional and local authorities and

(iv) the role of corporations in migration and integration management in 2035.

2:30-3:45 p.m.
Parallel Sessions

1) Engaging with civil society – new approaches in the integration of migrants

New and innovative approaches that have been taken throughout OECD countries to leverage civil society in promoting the integration of migrants – notably with respect to social integration. This session will present and discuss some of these.

2) Innovations in language training

This session will present and discuss innovative approaches to language learning – either through new technologies or through innovation in course design and outreach.

3) Matching migrants with employment opportunities

A key issue with which many countries are struggling is to match migrants’ skills with available employment opportunities, notably, but not exclusively, for refugees. This requires skills being assessed upfront and migrants being put in touch with relevant employers.

4) Innovation in skills partnerships

Skills partnerships are an increasingly important tool for matching talent in origin countries with labour needs in destination countries, while avoiding negative impacts on the origin country. This session will discuss some recent policy innovations in this field.

4:00-4:30 p.m.
A conversation on the global competition for talent

This session will bring together a high-level representative from emerging economies and a global thought leader from an OECD country to discuss the global competition for talent.

4:30-5:45 p.m.
Ministerial panel: A whole-of-society response to future migration and integration challenges

This high-level closing session will act as a bridge between the policy forum and the ministerial meeting on the following day and will involve a selection of Ministers.

4:30-5:45 p.m.
Ministerial panel: A whole-of-society response to future migration and integration challenges

This high-level closing session will act as a bridge between the policy forum and the ministerial meeting on the following day and will involve a selection of Ministers.

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Society for Social Work and Research annual conference

Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality

Thursday-Sunday, January 16–19, 2020
Marriott Marquis
901 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Immigration-related sessions:

Thursday, January 17, 2020

1:30-3:00 p.m.
Examining Stress in Lives of Immigrants

The Effects of Caregiving, Self-Efficacy and Stigma on Wellness Among Asian-American Family Caregivers of People with Mental Illness
Meekyung Han, PhD, San Jose State University; Sadhna Diwan, PhD, San Jose State University

Venezuelan Youth in Diaspora: A Multisite Study of Crisis Migration and Cultural Stress
Christopher Salas-Wright, PhD, Boston University; Mariana Cohen, Boston University; Patricia Andrade, Raices Venezolanas; Jose Rodriguez, Iglesia Episcopal Jesús de Nazaret; Mariana Sanchez, PhD, Florida International University; Seth Schwartz, PhD, University of Miami

Personal Well-Being, Resilience, Social Support and Psychological Distress Among Burmese Resettled Adults in the United States
Kareen Tonsing, PhD, Oakland University; Martha Vungkhanching, Ph.D., California State University, Fresno

The Loneliness Absorbs and Oppresses: Social Integration Barriers, Social Isolation and the Health Behaviors of Latino Immigrant Day Laborers
Jennifer Siegel, MSW, University of Maryland at Baltimore; Gabriel Fiallos, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Priya Sharma, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Nalini Negi, Ph.D., University of Maryland at Baltimore

Healthcare Literacy & Utilization

Changes in Immigration Policy and the Mental Health of Recent Mexican American Immigrants
Robin Gearing, PhD, University of Houston; Micki Washburn, PhD, University of Houston; Luis Torres, PhD, University of Houston; Alberto Cabrera, MSW, University of Houston; L. Christian Gearing, MSW, University of Houston; Robin Gearing, PhD, University of Houston

Testing Competing Models of Somatization in a Sample of Somali Refugees Living in Urban Kenya
Claire Luce, MSW, Virginia Commonwealth University; Laura Swan, MSW, Virginia Commonwealth University; Shelby McDonald, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University; Hyojin Im, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Mental Health Needs and Healthcare Access Among Venezuelan Immigrants in Central Florida
Tracy Wharton, PhD, LCSW, University of Central Florida; Andres Cubillo-Novella, PhD, Pontificia Javeriana University; Matthew Abrams, BS, University of Central Florida; Gilarys Garcia, BSW, University of Central Florida; Heather Peralta, PhD, RN, University of Central Florida

Health Literacy and Healthcare Use Among Karen Refugees
Isok Kim, PhD, University at Buffalo; Wooksoo Kim, PhD, University at Buffalo; Krisztina Baltimore, MSW, University at Buffalo; Biplab Bhattacharya, State University of New York at Buffalo; Mary Keovisai, MA, MSW, State University of New York at Buffalo; Li Lin, PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo

3:15-4:45 p.m.
Exploring Mental Health Correlates

Trends and Mental Health Correlates of Discrimination Among Latin American and Asian Immigrants in the United States
Christopher Salas-Wright, PhD, Boston University; Michael Vaughn, PhD, Saint Louis University; Trenette Goings, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Sehun Oh, PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Jorge Delva, PhD, Boston University; Mariana Cohen, Boston University; Seth Schwartz, PhD, University of Miami

Meanings of Resilience and Mental Health Among Syrian Refugees: Findings from Two Countries
Asli Yalim, PhD, University of Central Florida

Do Family Relation and Immigration Influence Mental Health Service Use Among Asian Americans?
Xiaochuan Wang, PhD, University of Central Florida

Structural Determinants of Mental Health Vulnerabilities and Access to Services Among Asian Immigrant Men in Toronto, Canada
Ran Hu, MSW, MA, University of Toronto; Kenneth Fung, MD, FRCPC, MSc, University of Toronto; Josephine Wong, RN, PhD, Ryerson University

Friday, January 17, 2020

8:00-9:30 a.m.
Health Status of Immigrants

Perception of the Affordable Care Act Among Korean Americans
Chung Hyeon Jeong, MSW, University of Southern California; Hyunsung Oh, PhD, MSW, Arizona State University; Lawrence Palinkas, PhD, University of Southern California

Determinants of Healthcare Use Among Refugees from Burma
Isok Kim, PhD, University at Buffalo; Wooksoo Kim, PhD, University at Buffalo

Health and Mental Health Experiences of Latina Immigrant Women during the Perinatal Period
Maria Pineros Leano, PhD, MSW, MPH, Boston College; Laura Crowley, BA, Boston College; Natalia Pineros Leano, Universidad de la Sabana

Gaining through Giving: A National Study of Volunteering and Health Status Among Immigrants in Canada
Jacky Ka Kei Liu, MSW, University of Calgary; Yeonjung Lee, PhD, University of Calgary

2:00-3:30 p.m.
Interpersonal Violence and Mental Health

Pathways between Economic Insecurity, Sexual Violence, and Depression Among Urban Refugee and Displaced Adolescents and Youth in Kampala, Uganda
Carmen Logie, MSW, PhD, University of Toronto; Moses Okumu, MSW, University of Toronto; Simon Mwima, Uganda Ministry of Health; Senkosi Balyejjusa, Uganda Christian University; Robert Hakiza, Young African Refugees For Integral Development

Controlling Behaviors, Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, and Social Adaptation Among Immigrant Women in South Korea
Hyun Lee, MSW, Yonsei University; Jae Yop Kim, PhD, Yonsei University; Lkhamkhuu Munkhnaran, Yonsei University; Boyoung Nam, MSW, University of Maryland Baltimore

Exploring Exclusionary and Fragmented Healthcare Access for Undocumented Women Immigrant Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Miriam Valdovinos, PhD, University of Denver; Sarah Dodd, MSW, University of Connecticut; Maritza Vasquez Reyes, MA, LCSW, University of Connecticut

Complexity of Men's of Experiences of Violence in Northern Uganda: Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander
Steve Friedman, MSW, School for Social Work

3:45-5:15 p.m.
Multifold Impact of the Border Crisis

Preventing Family Separation: Child Custody and Family Deportation Planning with Undocumented Latinx Families
Jodi Berger Cardoso, PhD, University of Houston; Liza Barros Lane, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine; Monica Faulkner, PhD, LMSW, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Scott, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge; Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, MSW, University of Houston

Educational Inclusion for Special Needs Students in a Refugee Camp: How Is School Setting Related to Children's Wellbeing?
Thomas M. Crea, PhD, Boston College; Kerri Evans, MSW LCSW, Boston College; Robert Hasson, MSW, Boston College; Kelsey Werner, MSW, Boston College; Elizabeth Wanjiku, Jesuit Refugee Service; Gregory St. Arnold, Jesuit Refugee Service

"I Want to Feel Safe at My School. I Want to Feel like I Belong": Exploring Muslim Refugee Students' Levels of Engagement in Schools
Ashley Cureton, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University

Developing Peer-to-Peer Support for Foreign-Born High School Students: Using Youth-Led Community-Based Participatory Research to Assess & Address Needs
Abbie Frost, Ph.D., Simmons University School of Social Work; Hugo Kamya, PhD, Simmons University School of Social Work

5:30-7:00 p.m.
Immigration Detention: The Racialized Response to Violence and Trauma

Sergio Serna, LCSW, University of California, Los Angeles, Angela Garcia, B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Anthony Gómez, B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Fatima Gonzalez, B.A., University of California, Los Angeles and Marianna Hernandez, B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Background: Recent data indicate the U.S. apprehended 92,607 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in March, 2019, the highest monthly total since April, 2007. (Pew Research) The recent wave of migration has been marked by two unique factors: refugees are migrating as family units more than ever and the number of people from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras together accounted for the bulk of apprehensions. In February, 2019, days after the Trump Administration declared a National Emergency at the border, four Latinx students from the Master's in Social Welfare program at UCLA, arrived in the rural town of Dilley, Texas. Joining volunteer lawyers, the team's role was to provide legal assistance to detained mothers and children undergoing the Credible Fear Interview process. The students, accompanied by department faculty, embarked on an intensely personal and professionally poignant journey to address this humanitarian crisis. In collaboration with Dilley's on-the-ground legal team, the
students conducted interviews of women and their children to determine their clients' strongest claims for asylum. While seeking and documenting their testimonies, students learned of women's harrowing accounts of traversing multiple countries with their young children, their terrifying crossing at the Rio Grande, and dehumanizing conditions in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facilities.

Methods: As a result of the experience, the team created a set of tools for advocates assisting newly arrived Central American refugees. The three key resources include: (1) an educational and outreach video documenting the experience of volunteer advocates and their clients; (2) a case example demonstrating the utility of exploring trauma narratives for providers struggling with secondary trauma; and (3) transdisciplinary recommendations aimed to decrease re-traumatization of detained immigrant clients through use of trauma-informed perspectives and practices.

Results: The perpetuation of dangerously false narratives, racialized narratives, paints Central American refugees as criminals. This is facilitated by existing systems of oppression including racism. The fact that these sentiments are promoted by the world's highest political office has broad implications for both micro and macro-level social work practice. Through disseminating these additional tools to better address the needs of newly arrived Central American refugees, this toolkit seeks to document helpful responses to the real national emergency—xenophobia.

Conclusions and Implications: Continued conversation must bring together researchers, educators, students and staff of organizations serving the most vulnerable racial/ethnic minorities whose life experiences led them to the U.S. We must acknowledge that a legal perspective alone is insufficient, akin to working with one hand tied behind our backs. The law often operates in a black and white paradigm, making it sometimes difficult to recognize the humanity of all people. Through dialogue we look to demonstrate why and how social workers and their perspective is uniquely suited for intervening with this population. This work is rooted in the narratives of the women and their children, those who participated in this journey and those seeking to provide culturally humble services and effective policy advocacy on behalf of impacted communities—all of which will serve as a continuous reminder of the power of resilience.

Understanding Economic Inequality in Immigrant Lives

Emerging Health and Economic Inequality Among U.S. Citizen Minors in Mexico
Jodi Berger Cardoso, PhD, University of Houston; Sharon Borja, PhD, University of Houston

Immigrant Women, Violence, and Economic Oppression
Arlette Vila, PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Elizabeth Pomeroy, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Mothering in Contexts of Economic Inequality, Violence and Transnational Mobility: A Qualitative Study with Asylum-Seeking Mothers from Central America
Maria Emilia Bianco, MSW and Masters in Communications, Boston College

Exploring Determinants of Employment Among Resettled Refugee Women in the United States
Erum Agha, MSW, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saturday, January 18, 2020

9:45-11:15 a.m.
Improving health care delivery

"How Will I Take Her to Have Her Vaccinated?": Threats to Healthcare Access Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Cindy Sousa, PhD, MSW, MPH, Bryn Mawr College; Bree Akesson, PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University; Dena Badawi, University of Waterloo

Adaptation of Immigrants & Refugees

Reimagining Successful Aging Among Latinx Communities in the United States
Rocio Calvo, PhD, Boston College; Nacho Gimenez-Nadal, PhD, Universidad de Zaragoza

Gender Inequality in Assimilation across Immigrant Generations
Felix Muchomba, PhD, Rutgers University; Neeraj Kaushal, PhD, Columbia University

Institutional Innovation amidst the Demise of the Refugee Resettlement Sector
Jessica Darrow, PhD, University of Chicago

On Being Black, Muslim, and a Refugee: Stories of Somalis in Chicago
Ifrah Magan, PhD, New York University

4:00-5:30 p.m.
Immigration Status As a Social Determinant of Racial and Economic Inequality

The resurgence of anti-immigrant sentiment in immigrant receiving countries, like the United States and Canada, represents a pressing social just concern especially for undocumented immigrants who face the threat of deportation along with racial discrimination and economic insecurity. As Sociologist Roberto Gonzalez (2015) has argued, immigration status functions as a “master status” in the lives of immigrants through organizing the social, political, and economic resources available to immigrants as well as processes of stigmatization and discrimination that negatively impact people who are constructed in media and political rhetoric as "illegal," "criminal",' or "threats" to society.

The following papers present research from Canada and the United States to develop a cross-national understanding of the discriminatory effects of anti-immigrant sentiment and accompanying structural inequalities on the well-being of undocumented or precarious status immigrants, with direct implications for social work practice.

The first paper links macro and micro practice, through a psychoanalytic analysis of news coverage of the Trump administration's rhetoric of the “migration crisis” in the United States. Using select psychoanalytic constructs, Lee & Bhuyan present a critical discourse analysis of the Trump Administration's response to asylum claims related to domestic violence and gang violence. Their findings illustrate how political construction of the feared bad object/immigrants corresponds with construction of the imagined good object/nationalism as exemplified by Trump's motto – Making America Great Again (MAGA). Lee & Bhuyan discuss how attention to veiled racist political discourse can be addressed in clinical practice.

Park and colleagues' survey of social workers' attitudes towards immigrants in the United States indicate a troubling degree of anti-immigrant sentiment among social workers who do not perceive immigrants as facing discrimination and endorse anti-immigrant views towards undocumented immigrants. Park and colleagues call for deepening social workers' knowledge of structural barriers faced by immigrants, particularly related to race and national origin, towards improving outcomes for immigrants seeking social services.

Drawing upon research on immigrant settlement service in Ontario, Canada, Bhuyan and Schmidt employ an intersectional, gender-based analysis of racial and economic inequality in the lives of refugee claimants, low-skilled temporary foreign workers, international students, and immigrants with less access to financial capital. Their findings illustrate how gender, precarious status, racialization and financial security increase immigrant women's vulnerability to long periods of family separation, employer abuse and exploitation, and limited access to social and health services.

The final paper focusses on how immigrant families prepare their children for enduring racial and structural inequalities. Cross reports findings from a mixed-methods longitudinal study with Latinx immigrant parents in the United States. This research identifies how Latinx parents mobilize cultural practices to mitigate the threat of deportation and prepare their children to face experiences of discrimination outside of the home.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Immigration Policies and Media Discourse in the United States: Politics of Global Anxiety from Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Eunjung Lee, PhD, University of Toronto; Rupaleem Bhuyan, PhD, University of Toronto

Perceptions of Structural Inequality and Attitudes Towards Undocumented Immigrants Among U.S. Social Workers
Yoosun Park, PhD, Smith College; Maria Torres, PhD, Smith College; Andrew Rundle, DrPH, Columbia University

Precarious Immigrant Pathways: A Gender-Based Analysis of Racial and Economic Insecurity for Immigrant Women in Canada
Rupaleem Bhuyan, PhD, University of Toronto; Catherine Schmidt, MSW, University of Toronto

Socialization Practices Latinx Immigrant Parents Utilize to Prepare Their Children for Anti-Immigrant Discrimination
Fernanda Cross, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Sunday, January 19, 2020

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Access to Services for Latinx Immigrant Families

Efforts to reduce racial and economic inequalities should address not only their effects on mental health but also on improving access to mental health services. Latinx immigrant families have been shown to experience gains in mental health outcomes upon arrival, relative to the non-immigrant population. However, these gains erode over time and from one generation to another, with poor mental health exceeding that of the general population. This symposium explains the difficulties associated with the Latinx immigrant experience in the United States and outlines interventions aimed to increase access and utilization of mental health services for Latinx immigrant families. The first panelist describes the need for access to services for Latinx caregivers of children with developmental disabilities. The study targets the unique experiences of Texan families, as little is known about this population. Texas is unique in that it is comprised of a racial/ethnically (58.3% reported racial/ethnic
minority) and linguistically (36% speak non-English language in home) diverse population. Subsequently, it is important to assess service access and receipt in Central Texas to determine if available services and supports are adequate for the needs of the community. The purpose of this needs assessment study is to fill these gaps in knowledge and determine the diagnostic and service needs of children with ASD and their families in Central Texas utilizing a mixed-methods approach. The second panelist addresses issues of child behavioral problems related to immigration stressors, through a community-based parenting intervention with Latinx immigrant family populations. Low-income Latinx immigrant families are exposed to multiple immigration-related challenges. These stressors place Latinx youth at high risk for experiencing various problematic behaviors (e.g., drug use). This presentation will describe strategies to effectively engage and retain underserved Latinx families in community-based
parenting prevention programs. The third panelist describes the perceived mental health needs of emerging adults from immigrant Latinx families, highlighting the social determinants of mental health burden and participants' preferences for a mental health intervention that leverages the existing infrastructure of the Ventanillas de Salud (VDS; Health Window). A model of health located within the Mexican Consulate General of Austin, the VDS connects consulate patrons to appropriate health services. A discussant will conclude the symposium with a discussion of how these interventions can be implemented and disseminated to promote mental health equity among often-underserved Latinx immigrant populations.

Identifying the Needs of Latino Immigrant Children with ASD in Central Texas: Results from a Mixed-Methods Needs Assessment
Sandy Magana, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin; Sandra Vanegas, PhD, Southwest Texas State University; Weiwen Zeng, MSSc, University of Texas at Austin

Addressing Adversity and Discrimination in Intervention Curriculum and Delivery: Lessons Learned in Parenting Prevention Research with Low-Income Latinx Immigrant Families
Ruben Parra-Cardona, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Mental Health Access to Immigrant Latinx Emerging Adults
Carmen Valdez, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin; Ashley Ables, BA, University of Texas at Austin; Kevin Wagner, BA, University of Texas at Austin; Alice Villatoro, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Assessing Mental Health Interventions

A Randomized Clinical Trial Testing a Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment Intervention for Mental Health Among Refugees in Malaysia
Stacey Shaw, PhD, Brigham Young University; Lynette Randall, BSW, Brigham Young University; Latifa Ali, Brigham Young University; Hamid Karim, Brigham Young University; Louisa Gilbert, PhD, Columbia University

Psychometric Qualities of Measurement Tools Used in Research on Refugee Youth Mental Health: Findings from a Systematic Review
Kristan Armstrong, MSW, LCSW, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Shandra Forrest-Bank, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Mary Held, PhD, LCSW, The University of Tennessee; Omotola Akinsola, MSW, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mental Health Interventions for African Immigrants and Refugees Resettled in the Western Nations: A Systematic Review
Evalyne Orwenyo, MA, MSW, Rutgers University; Betty Tonui, MSW, University of Texas at Arlington; Cecilia Mengo, PhD, Ohio State University

Addressing Mental Health Disparities in Resettled Refugees: The Promise of Family-Based Prevention
Theresa Betancourt, ScD, Boston College; Jenna Berent, Boston College; Jordan Farrar, PhD, Boston College

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Making Migration and Integration Policies Future Ready

Friday, January 17, 2020
OECD Conference Centre 2
rue André-Pascal 75775
Paris CEDEX 16 France
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Description: Under the title “Making Migration and Integration Policies Future Ready”, Ministers responsible for migration and integration issues from all OECD countries and from selected non-OECD countries will have the opportunity to exchange their views on their countries’ challenges, opportunities, and best practices in a Ministerial Meeting to be held on 17 January 2020 in Paris.

Notably Ministers will address:

* Innovative Approaches to managing Economic Migration
* Partnerships to improve Migration Enforcement and Compliance
* Innovative Approaches to Integration
* Engaging the Whole of Society and Improving Co-ordination

Ministers will also set out their priorities for Migration and Integration Policy work of the OECD.

Conference agenda will be added when available.

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International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS)

Sunday-Tuesday, January 19-21, 2020
Cairo, Egypt
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Description: Migration remains at the top of policy agendas in many countries worldwide. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) recognize the need for reliable, disaggregated statistics on migration that are nationally relevant and internationally comparable. However still today, there is scarcity of basic data on international migration and existing data are not fully analysed, utilized or shared.
The International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS) is a unique, global platform devoted to improving data on migration in all its dimensions. Organised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the IFMS offers space for dialogue for a broad range of actors, from national and regional authorities, NGOs, international agencies and the private sector. The first meeting of the IFMS, took place in Paris, France, from 15 to 16 January 2018, and it included 240 speakers and over 350 participants from 90 countries, representing national statistical offices, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions.
IFMS 2020

The second IFMS aims to mobilise expertise from a wide range of disciplines – such as statistics, economics, demography, sociology, geospatial science, and information technology – to improve the collection and analysis of migration data worldwide. The Forum will take place in Cairo, Egypt on 19-21 January 2020.

It will explore innovative ways to measure population mobility and to generate timely statistics, by bringing together a broad range of participants to share and to discuss new data initiatives and examples of success in the field of migration data. The Forum will also provide a unique opportunity for policy-makers to have direct contact with migration data experts and to use their expertise to feed policy evaluations and to identify best policy options.

The focus on data capacity building comes from the recognition that implementing the commitments of international processes comes with significant challenges for National Statistical Offices, which often have limited capacities to collect, analyse and manage data relevant to migration.

The plenary sessions of the Forum will be organised around the following six themes:

* Strengthening data for policy: ensuring effective data communication and examining existing gaps in migration statistics to determine what is needed to address policy concerns;
* Data collection and innovation: Lessons and new approaches to the collection of migration data, including from 2020 censuses and administrative sources, and the potential of technologically-driven solutions, including big data;
* Cooperation and data governance: exploring ways to strengthen stakeholder coordination and the exchange and sharing of data;
* Capacity development and financing: identifying strategies to enhance data literacy as well as institutional capacities to collect, analyse and disseminate data;
* Measuring progress on the SDGs and other global commitments: data challenges, initiatives and indicators-based approaches to monitoring;
* Improving the availability of data on migrants in vulnerable situations: disaggregating statistics by migratory status, age and sex - analysing challenges, opportunities and best practices.

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The 6th Mayoral Forum on Human Mobility, Migration and Development

Tuesday-Friday, January 21-24, 2020
Centro de Convenciones Metropolitano
Quito, Ecuador
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Description: The Government of the Republic of Ecuador, in its capacity as 2019 Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), will be hosting the Twelfth GFMD Summit Meeting on 20-24 January 2020 in Quito, Ecuador, open to Member States and Observers of the United Nations, and other GFMD Observers. The Twelfth GFMD Summit will be the climax of the Ecuador GFMD Chairmanship.

The Twelfth GFMD Summit will be opened by High Level officials of the Government of the Republic of Ecuador. It is expected to be attended by Ministers and Vice Ministers from all regions of the world, and a broad range of policy-makers and practitioners in migration and development fields.

From the outset, a central focus of the GFMD 2019 Chairmanship has been continuing the global dialogue on migration in the changed policy landscape following the affirmation of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and Global Compact for Migration (GCM), the review of the implementation of migration-related commitments in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda through the High-level Political Forum, and the enhancement of the GFMD process through the follow up of the recommendations of the GFMD Ten-Year Review Report.

The Ecuadorian Chairmanship is focused on the central theme: “Sustainable approaches to human mobility: Upholding rights, strengthening state agency, and advancing development through partnerships and collective action.”

The substantive agenda of the Quito GFMD Summit focuses on three Roundtable (RT) themes, to be discussed in six RT sessions:

(1) Coordinated responses to mixed movements: Partnerships and collective action to protect rights

Roundtable 1.1: Providing regular pathways from crisis to safety

Roundtable 1.2: Facilitating social and economic inclusion

(2) Migration narratives and communication: What role, responsibility and resources do governments have?

Roundtable 2.1: Shaping public narratives on migration and migrants

Roundtable 2.2: Communicating effectively with migrants

(3) Addressing human mobility as part of urban and rural development strategies

Roundtable 3.1: Supporting arrival cities through policy coherence and multi-stakeholder partnerships

Roundtable 3.2: Harnessing migration for rural transformation and development

In line with the tradition of the GFMD, the three-day GFMD Summit program will include inaugural and closing ceremonies, as well as Roundtable discussions and special sessions on the GFMD Platform for Partnerships and the Future of the Forum open to Friends of the Forum. Additionally, this year, for the first time, the three multi-stakeholder mechanisms of the GFMD – the Civil Society Days, the Business Meeting and the Mayoral Forum – will be held in the same space and integrated into the overall program of the GFMD Summit. The ‘Common Space’ sessions will provide an opportunity for the multi-stakeholder representatives from all mechanisms to mingle and share ideas in unified shared events.

For more details, please refer to the Provisional Programme for 20-24 January 2020 and Logistics Note with practical information for participating delegations.

Registration for the Quito GFMD Summit will be coursed through the GFMD Support Unit in Geneva ([email protected]). For logistical considerations, all delegations are encouraged to complete online registration via gfmd.org until 13 December 2019.

The Ecuadorian GFMD Chair looks forward to welcoming your government / organization’s delegation to the Twelfth GFMD Summit.

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Civil society and the everyday politics of the global refugee regime: Early lessons from the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)

12:30-2:30 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2020
York University
626 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
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Speaker:
James Milner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University

Description: While there is a rich literature on the politics of the global refugee regime and the politics of asylum in the global South, there has been less systematic treatment of the role of civil society actors in navigating the everyday politics of the regime, especially in the global South, which hosts 80% of the world’s refugees. This gap is surprising given the literature on the role that civil society plays in other global regimes and the range of civil society actors engaged with the work of the global refugee regime. In response, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) was launched in 2018 as a partnership between four Canadian universities, INGO partners, and working groups in Kenya, Tanzania, Lebanon and Jordan, which include local academics, national NGOs and refugee-led initiatives from each context. This presentation will share the early results of LERRN and its work to understand the everyday politics of the global refugee regime.

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Beyond the 1951 Convention: What are State responsibilities towards refugees according to the 1967 Protocol

12:30-2:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 4, 2020
York University
519 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
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Speaker:
Robert Barsky, Canada Research Chair: Law, Narrative and Border Crossing, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

Description: Prof. Barsky will discuss the letters, minutes of meetings, memos, and reports that pertain to the negotiations leading up to the 1967 Protocol. These documents show that the ambitions of the 19 legal experts who convened in Bellagio in 1965 were far more wide-ranging than simply removing the temporal (pre-1951) and geographical (Europe) limitations of the 1951 Convention. Rather, the documents reveal complex discussions about how to create a stand-alone treaty that would expand the Convention’s reach and render it more adaptable to new refugee situations, while not impeding any more expansive regional instruments that might come to be adopted.

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Legalizing the Impossible Subject: The White Russian Refugees and the Development of American Immigration and Refugee Law during the Great Depression

12:00-1:30 p.m., Monday, February 24, 2020
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost’s Building, Conference Room 115
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
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Speakers:
S. Deborah Kang, Visiting Scholar, The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Associate Professor of History, California State University San Marcos

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Indignity and Indignation: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins

12:00-1:30 p.m., Thursday, February 27, 2020
Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
Lower Level Library
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
Sarah Willen, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights, University of Connecticut

Description: Sarah Willen is the author of Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins. In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no place. The deportation campaign quickly devastated Tel Aviv's migrant communities and set the stage for even more aggressive antimigrant and antirefugee policies in the years to come.

Fighting for Dignity traces the roots of this deportation campaign in Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows how policies that illegalize and criminalize migrants wreak havoc in their lives, endanger their health, and curtail the human capacity to flourish. Children born to migrant parents are especially vulnerable to developmental and psychosocial risks. Drawing on nearly two decades of ethnographic engagement in homes and in churches, medical offices, advocacy organizations, and public spaces, Willen shows how migrants struggle to craft meaningful, flourishing lives despite the exclusions and vulnerabilities they endure. To complement their perspectives, she introduces Israeli activists who reject their government's exclusionary agenda and strive to build bridges across difference, repair violations of migrants' dignity, and resist policies that violate their own moral convictions. Willen's vivid and unflinching ethnography challenges us to reconsider our
understandings of global migration, human rights, the Middle East— and even dignity itself.

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Emigration from Paradise: Migration Stories from Interwar Hungary

Harvard Center for European Studies

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2020
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Speaker:
llse Josepha Lazaroms, Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University; Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Martin Buber Chair, Goethe University Frankfurt; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University

Description: In this talk Ilse Josepha Lazaroms will discuss the many variations of emigration and emigration narratives that existed among Jewish communities in interwar Hungary and the Hungarian diasporas. This story is a part of a larger book project entitled Emigration from Paradise: Home, Fate and Nation in Post-World War I Jewish Hungary (forthcoming with Stanford University Press). The manuscript deals with the nature of national attachment and social exclusion in 1920s East Central Europe, and Hungary in particular, as well as the ways in which the personal, social and national traumas of these years reverberate until today. The story, which is set at the point when European civilization plunged into the depths of darkness, focuses on the life-stories of individual Hungarian Jews, thereby bringing the domain of the private into the world of politics, migrations and nation states.

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