BIMI Events
Fall 2026
Friday, October 9, 2026, 12-1:30p
Beyond Dreamers: Transitions to Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty by Sofya Aptekar and Amy Hsin
This BIMI event is organized in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, the UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link forthcoming.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 12-1:30p
Enduring Illegality: Time and the State of Waiting in Undocumented Middle Life by Angela S. Garcia
This is a hybrid event, hosted at UC San Diego.
This BIMI event is organized in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, the UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link forthcoming.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12-1:30p
Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability by Carolina Valdivia
This is a hybrid event, hosted at UC Berkeley and co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Workshop.
This BIMI event is organized in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, the UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link forthcoming.
Monday, November 9, 2026, 12-1:30p
"Not Eligible but Still Fitting? Prefigurative Citizenship and the Interpretive Agency of the ‘Ineligible’” with Professor Juman Kim, Towson University.
This BIMI event is a co-sponsorship of the Center for the Study of Law and Society Speaker Series. Learn more about the Series here: https://csls.berkeley.edu/speakers-events/csls-speaker-series
Registration link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cJMBdpMFReyUs3129qH0hQ
Friday, November 13, 2026, 12-1:30p
The Third Net: The Third System of Migrant Healthcare by Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Erin Hoekstra, and Anthony M. Jimenez
This is a hybrid event, hosted at UCLA.
This BIMI event is organized in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, the UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link forthcoming.
Monday, November 16, 2026, 12-1:30p
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photographic Journeys Across Borders by Zeynep Devrim Gursel
This BIMI event is a co-sponsorship of the Center for the Study of Law and Society Speaker Series. Learn more about the Series here: https://csls.berkeley.edu/speakers-events/csls-speaker-series
Registration link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M81jVaRDRwyo6Pp1IlRZyA
Spring 2026
January 29, 2026, 12-1:30
Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia by Kerilyn Schewel
January 30, 2026, 12-1:30
Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality by Irene Vega
February 20, 2026, 12-1:30p
Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy by Hiroshi Motomura
March 6, 2026, 12-1:30p
Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life by Gabrielle Oliveira
March 11, 2026, 12-1:30p
Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement by Molly Fee
April 3, 2026, 12-1:15p
Illegality in the Heartland: Latinidad, Indigeneity, and Immigration Policies during Times of Hate by Andrea Gomez-Cervantes
May 22, 2026, 12-:1:30p
Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance by Paolo Boccagni
Fall 2025
October 3, 2025, 12-1:30p
Facing Anti-Immigrant Authoritarianism
UC Immigration scholars reflect on challenges and strategies for research, teaching and public scholarship
Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/4rylMJDPQUWyd9S81O75EQ
October 9, 2025, 12:30-2p
The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants' Lives in Mexico City
by Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, Nicole Denier
This BIMI event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/au64iK57TX-PPUQJ0-L1Gw#/registration
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iELLccpEYVU
November 7, 2025, 12-1p
Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
by Tiffany Joseph
This BIMI event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/OOns5nFVTzCf139m4hWE0Q
Recording: https://youtu.be/i18NTm1IXPw
November 14, 2025, 12-1p
On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Andrew Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, and Diego Chaves-González
This BIMI event is cohosted in partnership with the UC Davis Global Migration Center, UC Los Angeles Center for the Study of International Migration, and UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies as part of a UC Migration Centers collaboration.
Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/TxYrjhiYRq6sXBgBuew44A
Recording: https://youtu.be/PYpltW2c9nI
Spring 2025
January 10, 2025, 12-1:30p
Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System
by Ulrike Bialas (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), with comments from David FitzGerald (University of California, San Diego).
Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcofuyvrjkrGNUMc4CeAqVchLsw64WFi9TI
January 29, 2025, 12-1:30p
Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorship
by Abel Escribà-Folch, Joseph Wright, and Covadonga Meseguer. Presentation by Joseph Wright (Pennsylvania State University), with comments by Margaret Peters (University of California, Los Angeles).
Event link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93739086251
January 31, 2025, 12-1:30p
Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities
by Ragini Shah (Suffolk University Law School).
Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIocuysrjgjG9WOhGStNy20OAEHu0i3B3B5
March 14, 2025, 12-1:30p
Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families
by Hyeyoung Kwon (Indiana University, Bloomington), with comments from Inmaculada Garcia-Sanchez (UCLA).
Registration link:https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/stlU6FBsQuKnY2k3h6qUpA
April 18, 2025, 12-1:30p
Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity
by Jennifer Van Hook (Pennsylvania State University) and James D. Bachmeier (Temple University).
Registration link:https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/HPtmbyyxQYKMa9omf_basw
May 9, 2025, 12-1:15p
State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change
by Maria Cristina Garcia (Cornell University).
Registration Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/19j6-hFCTBmnIfI00wSKxQ