IMES PODIUM: Comparative Immigration and America’s Racial Legacy

With professor Nancy Foner (CUNY)

Event

Professor Nancy Foner (City University of New York) will address how America’s history of slavery, segregation, and the civil rights movement -and the very presence of a large African American population - has affected the incorporation of immigrants and their children in the United States in ways that differ from Western Europe.

Professor Nancy Foner is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including

• From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000, winner of the 2000 Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society)
•  In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, 2005)
• Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (edited with George Fredrickson, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004)
• Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America (New York University Press, 2009)
• Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York (University of California Press, 2001)
• Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (edited with Ruben Rumbaut and Steven Gold, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000).  

Most recently, she is editor of One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press, 2013), a collection of original essays providing an in-depth and up-to-date look at immigrant New York after nearly half a century of massive inflows, and co-editor of New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (New York University Press, 2014), a comparison of immigration’s impact on these two global cities.

Discussant

Darshan Vigneswaran (UvA) author of Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System (2013), (co-edited) Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (2013) and Mobility Makes States (forthcoming 2014).

Registration

No registration is required. After the presentation IMES will provide drinks at the Atrium Café.