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Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative: Radical Kinship Series
  1. October 11, 2021 - 12:00am to March 10, 2022 - 12:00am

Daniel Masterson's research on Syrian refugees' migration featured in The Economist
  1. December 1, 2021 - 8:45pm

Professor Daniel Masterson- along with other researchers from the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, and the London School of Economics- recently had their research featured in The Economist. The article,“Here to Stay, However Miserable: Making Life Hard for Syrian Refugees Will Not Compel Them to Leave” was published in the January 9, 2021 edition. 

Professors France Winddance Twine, Jean Beaman, John S.W. Park, Lisa Parks, and Kim Yasuda have been awarded a Mellon Sawyer Seminar
  1. November 26, 2021 - 7:15pm

 

The award, for $225,000, will fund a year-long seminar series in 2021-2022, through which these principal investigators will convene leading scholars from around to the world to examine the intersections of global migration, racial identity, and precarity in France, South Korea, and California.

UCSB Global Studies professor Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky's new article "Becoming Armenian: Religious Conversions in the Late Imperial South Caucasus" is out!
  1. November 1, 2021 - 9:45pm

Meet the 2021 Migration Initiative Research Grant Awardees!
  1. April 24, 2021 - 11:15am to November 25, 2021 - 11:15am

Looking for a good TV series on Migration? Watch "Little America"
  1. February 26, 2021 - 9:45pm to March 30, 2021 - 9:45pm

OIM's "World Migration Report" 2020 is out!
  1. August 28, 2020 - 10:45am to August 30, 2020 - 10:45am

Watch "Invisible Heroes" (UFW)
  1. June 15, 2020 - 12:30pm to July 31, 2020 - 12:30pm

Prof. Veronica Castillo-Munoz appointed as Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians
  1. January 7, 2020 - 1:00pm
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) has named Verónica Castillo-Muñoz as a Distinguished Lecturer. She is a UC-Santa Barbara historian and expert in gender history, American history and Latin America. Read more!
Vania Wang's Work on Migration and HIV Treatment on the Spot
  1. December 31, 2019 - 12:00pm

Wang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at UCSB and the first GloCal Health Fellowship from the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI). She works with professor Susan Cassels. 

New book: "Durable Ethnicity Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core" by Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue
  1. December 30, 2019 - 12:00am

Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants  of the largest and longest lasting  immigration stream in US history. Today, there are approximately 24 million Americans of Mexican descent living in the United   States, many of  whosefamilies have been in the US for several generations. Read more!

Migration News

Overcrowded Border Jails Give Way to Packed Migrant Child Shelters (The New York Times)

By Eileen Sullivan, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luke Broadwater

Federal documents indicate...

Why the Caribbean is a dangerous escape for Venezuelans (The New Humanitarian)

Why the Caribbean is a dangerous escape for Venezuelans

Nayrobis...

Violent Encounters and Social Status Shape the Conditions for Migrants Fleeing Civil War (Migration Policy Institute)

Justin Schon

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‘It’s a day off’: wiretaps show Mediterranean migrants were left to die (The Guardian)

Lorenzo Tondo

Exclusive: Transcripts of conversations between Italian officials and...

Border Patrol’s New Coordinators Are Meant to Help Process Children, But Concerns Linger (Immigration Impact)

Border Patrol’s New Coordinators Are Meant to Help Process Children, But Concerns Linger...