News & Events
2009
- The Center for Immigration Research Speaker Series: “Enemy Women (and Men)”
- Jessica Brown, College of Saint Rose Residential Fellow, Center for Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Studies
- Friday, November 6, at 2-3:30 p.m.
- Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library
- See the flyer about the speech
- Learn more
- Any category of membership is defined as much by those that do not belong as by those that do. This talk is an examination of the way that new ideas of “Germanness” are being defined with respect to new groups of problematized outsiders. Since gender and sexual behavior are among the brightest in the ideological “paint box” used to draw the lines between in-group and out-group, Ms. Brown will examine how discourses of gender and sexuality are being used to define what it means to be a good German citizen versus an outsider in modern-day Germany. To place the current project in perspective, however, she will also provide a historical overview of the shifting and contradictory ways in which gender and sexuality have been used to mark this boundary in Germany in the past.
- The Center for Immigration Research Speaker Series: “The Undocumented Immigrant Experience”
- Hilario Molina, University of Houston Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology
- Thursday, October 8, at 2:00-3:30pm
- Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library
- See the flyer about the speech
- Learn more
- Social networks are an important component of the migration process. This lecture focuses on the role of social networks in the immigration experience of undocumented Mexican immigrants. Specifically,
Professor Molina examines the forces and the instruments present in the undocumented immigration process. This includes social networks that facilitate immigration, the use of coyotes and the type of coyote selected, and the manner in which the characterization of undocumented immigrants as “aliens” dehumanizes immigrants and encourages illegal immigration. Through a quantitative and qualitative exploration of the factors that facilitate undocumented immigration, a better understanding of the immigrant experience is produced.
- Social networks are an important component of the migration process. This lecture focuses on the role of social networks in the immigration experience of undocumented Mexican immigrants. Specifically,
- Prof. Kotarba, Sociology department chairman, is the recipient of the George Herbert Mead Award, the lifetime achievement award presented annually by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. For the complete story visit UH Today.
2008
- November 10: Inaugural edition of the E-Soc newsletter
