BIMI Events
Fall 2025
October 9, 2025, 12-1:30p
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 forthcoming
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 forthcoming
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 forthcoming
December 5, 2025, 12-1p
Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality
by Irene Vega
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 forthcoming
Past BIMI Events
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