Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies

Date and Time

October 22, 2014
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S450

"When Fear Disrupts Care: 'Illegality', Rurality and Daily Life"

Speaker:

Leah Schmalzbauer, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Montana State University.

“Corn, Coffins and Cosmopolitans: Explorations of Self-Alienation and Social Status among Migrants in Southern Africa"

Speaker:

Loren Landau, Director of the African Center for Migration and Society, Wits University.

"From Passports to Pennies: How Does Country-of-Origin Citizenship Affect Migrants' Remittances?"

Speaker:

Daniel Naujoks, Principal Investigator/Research Consultant, United Nations Development Programme's Bureau for Development Policy and Research Coordinator at the Organisation for Diaspora Initiatives in New Delhi.

Discussant:

Deepak Lamba-Nieves, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute and the Churchill G. Carey Jr. Chair in Economic Development Research at the Center for the New Economy in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Contact:

Charlotte Lloyd
charlottelloyd@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Peggy Levitt, Associate. Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.

Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

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