Events

BIMI Events

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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).

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).

May 9, 2025, 12-1:30p

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/JSYJ2vosTPKRppe68t0pIg

Campus Events

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