When:
Friday, August 7, 2009
(the day before the start of the ASA annual meeting)

Where:
Lipman Room,
Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley campus

The Berkeley Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop is proud to play host to the American Sociological Association International Migration section's first-ever "Making Connections" mini-conference this summer!

"Making Connections" aims to engage migration researchers from all career stages in sustained conversation on common interest and to provide an opportunity to make new connections.

The conference will run a full day, with two sets of morning roundtables, a keynote luncheon panel on "(How) Can Social Scientists Affect Policy?" and a special afternoon panel on "Comparative Migration and Integration: Empirical and Conceptual Contributions beyond the US."

Morning roundtables will focus on the nuts and bolts of conducting migration research and substantive migration topics. Rather than traditional paper presentations, roundtables will be presided over by topical experts who will provide short syntheses of the field or offer concrete tips from their own experiences. Presiders will then moderate a general conversation among all participants at the table.

The mini-conference will be free to all members of the ASA's IM section – we encourage you to sign up students and friends. Watch for further details about registration later this spring.

Plan to attend! We will offer copious food, stimulating conversation and, fog-permitting, gorgeous views of the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridge as backdrop.

Schedule of Workshops for Spring 2009

In September 2003, Professor Irene Bloemraad (Sociology) established the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop with funding from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. While the Berkeley campus housed numerous individuals with an expertise on immigration and a few area centers with an interest in migrants from a specific region, there was no single forum to bring together scholars of migration and immigrant integration. The Workshop was founded to provide such a venue and to serve as a forum for intense, personalized discussion of members' current research project.

The goals of the workshop are three-fold:

• To provide an interdisciplinary forum for workshop members to get feedback on their immigration-related research projects;
• To serve as a venue for information dissemination among members; and
• To provide a forum for inviting guest speakers to talk about immigration matters to the Berkeley campus and interested community members.

About this Web Site


The Workshop's Web site is designed to provide researchers, instructors and interested citizens with substantive content pertaining to immigration issues.  It also supports Workshop activities via a virtual private network for resource sharing and communication.  It is a gateway to other Web resources, with links to Think Tanks, statistics sources, archives, policy and legal sources, and a Webblog that tracks immigration issues in the news. The Web site is supported by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library. To contact the webmaster, please email Heather Lynch at heatherly@berkeley.edu.