Schedule of Events
| 9:00am – 9:30am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30am – 10:45am | Session 1 Roundtables: Research Challenges and Professional Development |
| 10:45am – 11:15am | Break |
| 11:15am – 12:30pm | Session 2 Roundtables: Topics in Migration Research |
| 12:30pm – 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm | Luncheon Keynote panel |
| 2:15pm – 2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45pm – 4:00pm | Afternoon Keynote panel |
| 4:00pm – 6:00pm | Reception: Raffle proceeds will benefit the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition |
Keynote Panels:
Luncheon Keynote panel: (How) Can Social Scientists Affect Future Immigration Policy?
1:00 – 2:15 PM
- Maria Echaveste, UC Berkeley and former senior White House official
- Demetrios Papademetriou, President of MPI
- Roberto Suro, USC & former Director of the Pew Hispanic Center
- Audrey Singer, Brookings Institute (moderator)
Afternoon Keynote panel: Comparative Migration & Integration: Empirical and Conceptual Contributions beyond the US
2:45 – 4:00 PM
- Nancy Foner, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
- Demetrios Papademetriou, President of MPI
- Patrick Simon, INED (France)
- Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley (moderator)
Roundtables:
Session 1: Migration Research Challenges and Professional Development
9:30 – 10:45am
- How to run large team projects (across disciplines, places)
Phil Kasinitz (CUNY), David Fitzgerald (UCSD), Helen Marrow (Rapporteur) - How to publish a book
Peggy Levitt (Wellesley), Kate Wahl (Stanford U Press), Ken Haig (Rapporteur) - Successfully employing mixed methods
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Princeton), Monica McDermott (Stanford), Joanna Doran (Rapporteur) - Measuring "integration"
Richard Alba (CUNY; Albany), Miri Song (Kent, United Kingdom), Catherine S. Bueker (Rapporteur) - Finding, creating & using survey data on immigrants
Taeku Lee (UCB), Susan Brown (UCI), Mytoan Nguyen (Rapporteur) - Funding -- writing successful grant proposals
Aixa Citrón-Vélez (Russell Sage Foundation), Katharine Donato (Vanderbilt), Natasha Warikoo (Rapporteur) - How to talk to journalists about immigration
Dowell Myers (USC), Audrey Singer (Brookings), Maria Medvedeva (Rapporteur) - The job market – tips and advice
Tomas Jimenez (Stanford), Jody Agius Vallejo (USC), Tomas Jimenez (Rapporteur) - IRB/ Human subjects for migration research
Rob Smith (CUNY), Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (USC), Hernan Ramirez (USC), (Rapporteur)
Session 2: Substantive Topics in Migration Research
11:15 – 12:30pm
- New destinations and local migration politics
Rubén Hernández-León (UCLA), Sara Curran (U Washington), Helen Marrow (Rapporteur) - Immigrants, collective action & civic/political engagement
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (USC), Lisa Martinez (Denver), Dina Okamoto (UCD), Catherine S. Bueker (Rapporteur) - Culture and immigration
Michèle Lamont (Harvard), Mario Small (Chicago), Natasha Warikoo (Rapporteur) - Education and immigration
Min Zhou (UCLA), Vivian Louie (Harvard), Norma Fuentes-Mayorga (Rapporteur) - Religion and immigration
Peggy Levitt (Wellesley), Wendy Cadge (Brandeis), R. Stephen Warner (UIC), Weishan Huang (Rapporteur) - The 2nd generation and inequality
Phil Kasinitz (CUNY), Richard Alba (CUNY; Albany), Jennifer Lee (UCI), Jody Agius Vallejo (Rapporteur) - Race, ethnicity and immigration
Frank Bean (UC Irvine), John Skrentny (UCSD), Wendy Roth (Rapporteur) - Mexican migration
David Fitzgerald (UCSD), Rob Smith (Baruch-CUNY), Filiz Garip (Rapporteur) - Refugees
Silvia Pedraza (U Michigan), Steve Gold (Michigan State), Nazli Kibria (Boston U), Richard Smith (Rapporteur) - National migration policy
Kitty Calavita (UCI), Mae Ngai (Columbia), Joanna Doran (Rapporteur) - Immigrant families
Nancy Landale (Penn State), Angie Chung (Albany), Maria Medvedeva (Rapporteur)