ICMEC NEWS 

Upcoming Events

ICMEC and the Program on Citizenship and Security will host a roundtable discussion in May 2005 on: Between Host and Homeland: Europe and the Politicization of Second-Generation Diasporas.

Topics will include:

For more information, contact: icmec@newschool.edu or check this site regularly for updates.
 

This year ICMEC is contributing to a series of public seminars on immigrants and migration.  The first seminar - Mexican Americans: Doing Better in 2004? - was held on September 23, 2004 and featured Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, The Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Co-Director, Harvard Immigration Projects,  Harvard University and Richard D. Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany as speakers. The second seminar, held on October 21, 2004 was on New Immigrants, Political Participation and the Vote. Speakers included Ron Hayduk, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, Bryan Pu-Folks, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and  John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center.

This series is a collaborative venture by faculty at Baruch College, CUNY Graduate Center, Fordham University, New School University, Hunter College, and the Social Science Research Council. The intention is to organize seminars with at least two speakers, who may offer differing views and spark a lively discussion.  Seminars in the Spring will be coordinated with a graduate course being offered by Nancy Foner. Information on speakers, dates, and locations will be available soon.

Requests to be added to the distribution list can be directed to Phil Kasinitz, PKasinitz@gc.cuny.edu.
 

Recent Publications

Sharing Integration Experiences: Innovative Community Practices on Two Continents
(pdf format)

Edited by Aristide Zolberg and Allison Clarkin. This volume, funded by a grant from the German Marshall Fund, is the culmination of a project designed to foster transatlantic dialogue on immigrant integration policies and practices. By focusing on community-level activities to integrate immigrants into their host communities, particularly those that include participation of the immigrants themselves, the publication sheds much-needed light on the day-to-day negotiations at the ground level over the practical aspects of integration. Moreover, it highlights positive steps that are being taken to further local integration of immigrants in Europe and the U.S.

New Projects

Islam in the West: Negotiating Religious Needs in Paris and New York

Following from our work on Sharing Integration Experiences (see above) which focused on community-level integration activities in a broad cross-section of European and American cities, in the next phase of this project we will focus exclusively on Muslim immigrant communities in New York and Paris. For this, we will be looking into how specific cultural and religious needs are negotiated and accommodated at the local level in two major urban centers. This research project is also supported by a grant from the German Marshall Fund. 
 


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