Graduate International Colloquia Grant
The Movement Movement - April 2009
Overview of the Lecture Series
Despite their increasingly growing number, the children of immigrants/immigrant children have long been neglected not only by academia, but also by public policy makers. Against this backdrop, this colloquium series aims to offer a historical and contemporary overview of U.S. immigration from comparative international perspectives and specifically will focus on the unique situation that immigrant youth face. It will explore the connections and differences in the experiences of immigrants with different legal status, including asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants. Most importantly, immigrant activist youth and local immigrant activists will be coming to speak about their stories and their organizing work.
This semester long colloquium series is divided into three parts. First, migration studies specialist speakers will introduce the framework to understanding various migration issues with historical and contemporary perspectives, especially focusing on the multifaceted ramifications of immigration and naturalization policies for various groups of immigrants. Second, we will present a documentary film festival on immigration, which will be introduced by the filmmakers, a faculty sponsor and Brown student activists. Third, this colloquium will include two panel discussions consisting of undocumented student activists and Providence-based immigrant youth community organizers respectively. These will provide unique opportunities to look at immigration from the perspective of the local community of Providence, and to examine how immigration has affected the undocumented immigrant community through higher education.
Overall, throughout these events, we will get a better understanding of immigration from comparative perspectives, which intersect local, national, and global dynamics and scrutinize the interplay of immigration policy making, as well as bottom up grassroots movements by immigrants themselves.
Overview of Events in April
- April 3rd, 2009, 3.30 pm, Salomon 001
Michael Fix – Vice President of the Migration Policy Institute
Our Immigrant Integration Policy: A Perilous Course?
- April, 9th, 2009 4pm, JNBC
Gerrit Dielissen – Associate professor Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Immigration: A European Perspective
- April, 15th, 2009, Movie Night, 6.00 pm, JNBC
Films: New World Border, El Motroes Para todos, The Seattle Underground Railroad, Lost and Found
- April, 16th, 2009, 2.00 pm, FAUNCE PETTERUTI
Gaston Ebua – Immigrant Rights Activist, Berlin, Germany
- April 16th, 2009, 5.00 pm, FAUNCE PETTERUTI
Dream Act Activists student panel
- April 18th, 2009, 2.00 pm, MACMILLAN 115
Community event with Immigrant Defense Network
