The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and their Homelands

FAIN: FS-50392-14

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Roger D. Waldinger (Project Director: March 2014 to April 2017)

A five-week summer seminar for sixteen college and university faculty on international migration in historical perspective.

This five-week summer seminar will focus on the explicitly cross-border aspects of international migration, looking at the relationships between emigrants, emigrant communities, and emigration states in global and historical perspective. To be held at UCLA, the seminar will be open to participants from Anthropology; Ethnic, Borderland, and Diaspora Studies; Geography; History; Philosophy; Political Science; and Sociology. Eligibility will be based on prior, ongoing, or future interest (and ideally, scholarship) in migration and related areas. I hope to attract participants with historical, contemporary, or international interests. The seminar will meet three times a week for sessions lasting three hours each, with the first two meetings devoted to discussions of readings and the third to other activities. I will be the sole instructor and will lead each discussion.