A conference in Roger Waldinger's honor, to be held at UCSD on May 5, with participation from former UCLA Sociology graduate students and current and former UCLA Sociology faculty.

Sociology of Migration
In Honor of Roger Waldinger

Friday, May 5, 2023 | 8AM - 5:00PM Pacific Time
Saturday, May 6, 2023 | 8AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time

Structural & Materials Engineering Building, Conference Room SME 248, UC San Diego

This will be a Hybrid Zoom and In-person Conference

For more information please email w2tam@ucsd.edu

Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex
Center for the Study of International Migration, UC Los Angeles
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex

Friday Workshops, May 5, 2023 Check-in, 8am - 8:45am

 
Transnationalism 9am -10:30am
Robert Smith, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York (CUNY)
Tahseen Shams, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology, Boston University

Assimilation 11:00am – 12:30pm
Thomas Soehl, Associate Professor, McGill University
Min Zhou, Professor of Sociology, UC Los Angeles
Adrian Favell, Director, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork

Lunch, 12:30pm -1:30pm

 
Political Sociology / Citizenship 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Caitlin Patler, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Davis
Chiara Galli, Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
David Cook-Martín, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado- Boulder

Ethnic Economy / Local Contexts of Reception 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Rubén Hernández-León, Professor of Sociology & Director, Latin American Institute, UC Los Angeles
Peter Catron, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Amada Armenta, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, UC Los Angeles
Reflections on the Sociology of Migration 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC Los Angeles

Saturday Master Classes, May 6, 2023 Check-in, 8am - 8:45am

 
Researching Politically Sensitive Topics 9am -10:15am
Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology, Boston University
David Cook-Martín, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado- Boulder
Tahseen Shams, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Urban Ethnographies of Migration 10:45am – 12:00pm
Chiara Galli, Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Robert Smith, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York (CUNY)
Adrian Favell, Director, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork

Registration:

For in person, click here
Location: Structural & Materials Engineering Building, Conference Room SME 248, UC San Diego

For Zoom, click here