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Immigration Working Group Activity Report and Budget—Spring 2021

Submitted by Anonymous on 29 September 2022

February 23

Bonnie Ip, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
“The Horizontally Networked Immigrant Enclave: A Mapping Methods Case Study of NYC Chinatown”
Open discussion

March 16

Beiyi Hu, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
“Ethnoracial Inequality in Egalitarian Sweden: Swedish Exceptionalism and Racial Legacies”
Discussant: Bonnie Ip , Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

April 20

Ivana Mellers, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
“Latinx Food Startup Founders: Adaptation Strategies and New Businesses in COVID-19 Era New York”
Open discussion

May 18

Janina Selzer, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
“Finding Their Place: How Disempowered Cities Envision a Politics of Belonging for the Forcibly Displaced”
Open discussion

Chartered Organization
Semester
Spring
Year
2021
Activity Report
Activity Report
Date Times Description Funding/Sponsor
Budget for Upcoming Semester
Categories: Category Total Description of Expenditures
Advertising & Promotion
Consulting
Equipment
Films/Film Rental
Honoraria
Printing & Postage
Refreshments
Supplies
Travel
Other
TOTAL
Constitution

MISSION: The GC Immigration Working Group is an interdisciplinary discussion group at the CUNY Graduate Center. We invite students and faculty from all departments to share interests, ideas, and information about issues related to the study, research, and analysis of issues related to immigration. Our primary purpose is to foster an intellectual and social community of scholars that encourages interactions across disciplines and between faculty and students.
EVENTS: The groups’ monthly meetings feature talks by invited researchers, presentations of students’ work, and general discussions that address various aspects of current immigration research. It also acts as a support network for new and old graduate students. In addition to these meetings we also hope to organize a small conference of immigration scholars. Each event also has a social component; they offer the opportunity for those working in various disciplines to come together, network, and lay the groundwork for future collaborative work.

MEMBERSHIP: We are open to all Graduate Center students and welcome participation from other CUNY faculty and students, as well as those from other institutions. We maintain a listserv of over 80 members; our active participants have included students in Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Social Psychology, and several other disciplines. Co-Chairs: Traditionally, every two years, two students who are either selected or who volunteer have run the group. There are no formal elections. The Co-Chairs share the responsibilities of scheduling and running weekly meetings, organizing events, and applying for funding.

Website
https://immigration.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Officers Contact Information
Officer Name Email
Description
The IWG is a student-run group where immigration scholars from CUNY can collaborate and discuss their research. We maintain a website, gc-immigration.org, as well as a blog and events calendar, which are of interest to immigration scholars.