Migration Workshop
The Boston area migration workshop provides a meeting space for scholars of global migration and immigration to meet and discuss research projects, exchange ideas, and provide feedback to each other works-in-progress. We welcome faculty, students and researchers from across the broad range of social sciences disciplines, methods and perspectives. For further details on the Workshop scope and structure, see here. Contact Nazli Kibria (nkibria@bu.edu) with questions and ideas. Sign up for our mailing list here.
2022 Migration Research In Progress
Session one: March 3rd 5 to 6:30 pm
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Breakout Room 1
Evidentiary Struggles in Birth Registration & Citizenship Claims Among Undocumented Migrants & Stateless Persons in Malaysia by Amanda Cheong, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University
Under the Shadow of Homeland: Chinese Emigrants to Ghana by Jinpu Wang, Syracuse University
Discussant: Wei Li, Arizona State University
Breakout Room 2
“The Price We Pay”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Endure Transnational Grieving by Kristina Fullerton Rico, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Veronica Montes, Bryn Mawr College
Circuit Breakers in Social Networks: Rejection, Reciprocity, and the Temporal Context of Exchange in a Refugee Camp by Blair Sackett, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Filiz Garip, Princeton University
Breakout Room 3
The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil (book chapter) by Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Heba Gowayed, Boston University
Monitoring Mamá y Papá: Exploring the Experiences of Asylum-Seeking Families in Alternative to Detention by Bianca Ortiz-Wythe, Univ of Massachusetts Boston
Discussant: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
Session two: March 4th 5 to 6:30 pm
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Breakout Room 1
Retelling precarity: Analyzing Indian and Asian Indian migrant worker experiences during Covid-19 pandemic across space and occupational structure by E. Chacko, George Washington University, S. Chaudhuri, D. Ebenezer, B. Purkayastha, R. Roy, P. Sanyal, A. Shanmugasundaram and J. Talukdar
Discussant: Prema Kurien, Syracuse University
Framing the immigrant in labor unions and the military in the US by Sofya Aptekar, CUNY and Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University
Discussant: Irene Bloemraad, University of California Berkeley
Breakout Room 2
Marked: Why Women Leave Muslim Communities While Men Stay by Eman Abdelhadi, Univ of Chicago.
Discussant: Neda Maghbouleh, University of Toronto
The Iron Ladies of Staten Island. Changing Gender Roles and the Importance of Pre-Migration Experiences and Transnational Ties Among Liberian Refugees by Bernadette Ludwig, Wagner College
Discussant: Stephanie Nawyn, Michigan State University
For questions about the event, contact Cheryl Llewellyn
Co-sponsored by Department of Sociology, Boston University and Center for Innovation in Social Science, Boston University.
Past Events:
Virtual Panel Discussion
Thursday, February 3, 2022
