The Commission for Migration and Integration Research cordially invites you to the following events with Rubén G. Rumbaut:
 
   1. a PhD workshop
   2. a public lecture
 
Rubén G. Rumbaut is an internationally known scholar of immigration and refugee movements, and a leading expert on immigration in the United States. He is the author of more than one hundred scientific articles and chapters in scholarly volumes on the adaptation of immigrants and refugees in the United States. His books include Immigrant America: A Portrait (with Alejandro Portes; new ed. 2006); Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (with Nancy Foner and Steven J. Gold); Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America (with Silvia Pedraza); and California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research, and Implications for Educational Policy (with Wayne Cornelius).
 
1) PhD workshop

The PhD workshop is addressed to doctoral students working on migration and integration. It aims to provide young researchers with the opportunity to discuss their work with Rubén Rumbaut in a less formal setting and a small group. The session will be chaired by Christoph Reinprecht and Claire Lévy Vroelant from the University of Vienna.
When? Wednesday, 29 Oktober 2008, 15.00-17.00
Where? Universität Wien (NIG), Universitätsstr. 7, 1010 Wien, 5th floor, room C 520
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2) Public lecture:

Paradise Shift: Immigration, Mobility and Inequality in Southern California 
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine
 
Where? Universität Wien (NIG), Universitätsstr. 7, 1010 Wien, 4th floor, HS 4C
When? Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 18.00-20.00
 
More immigrants come to the United States than to any other country; more come to California than to any other state; and more settle in Southern California than in any other metropolitan region---especially the coastal corridor from Los Angeles to San Diego on the Mexican border.  The largest nationalities that have come to the U.S. since the 1970s---comprising the largest concentrations of refugees and of immigrant professionals, entrepreneurs, and unauthorized laborers---have established their primary settlements there. In a context of widening economic inequality and governmental persecution of undocumented immigrants, central theoretical and policy questions concern the social mobility (intra- and inter-generational) of new ethnic groups being formed as a result of mass migration from Latin America and Asia---especially the rapidly growing generation of children of immigrants now making their transitions to adulthood (finishing their education, entering full-time work, forming families of their own).  
Findings will be presented from merged samples of two research studies in Southern California (IIMMLA and CILS-III). The focus is on the educational mobility of foreign-parentage (1.5- and 2nd-generation) young adults of Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Filipino, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian origin---representing distinct and segmented modes of incorporation. The analysis examines factors which facilitate or derail their mobility prospects, including the relative role of parental human capital and legal/citizenship status, family and neighborhood contexts growing up, early school achievement, acculturation, incarceration, and teenage and non-marital child-bearing, compared to patterns observed for native-parentage (3rd-generation and beyond) white, black, and Mexican-American peers. The paradoxical relationship of acculturation to mobility outcomes, and the resultant formation of new patterns of urban ethnic inequality and their implications for social science and public policy, will be discussed.
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