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FALL 2008 EVENTS:
‘A Nation of
Immigrants’:
The Civil Rights
Origins of Illegal
Immigration
A lecture with Mae Ngai
Thursday, 09/17
7:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Illegal immigration is considered a
violation of social and legal norms of
national membership and belonging,
when, in fact, it is a direct result
of restrictive modern immigration
policies. Mae Ngai, professor of
history at Columbia University,
discusses issues of borders and
border control that are at the heart of
U.S. immigration policy. By looking
at the different border regulations
the United States has practiced
toward its Atlantic, Pacific, Mexican
and Canadian borders—in terms
of both the policing of its boundary
lines and the development of policies
that define who is authorized to enter
the country—Ngai illustrates how a
nation’s attitude toward immigration
determines its ideas of settlement,
labor, race relations and colonial
projects. Mae Ngai is author of
the multiple award-winning book
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens
and the Making of Modern America.
Why is Religion
More Salient
Than Race?
Immigration,
Decolonization
and Intermarriage
in Post-War
Western Europe
A lecture with Leo Lucassen
Tuesday, 10/21
12:00 p.m.
802 International Affairs,
Columbia University
In the post-war world of France,
the United Kingdom, Germany
and the Netherlands, immigrants
attempting to integrate with western
European culture often find that
race is much less a barrier to their
goal than religion. By analyzing
the intermarriage rates of some
20 immigrant groups—from both
former colonies and labor-exporting
countries around the Mediterranean—
professor of history at the University
of Leiden Leo Lucassen explains how,
in this context, religion has become
more salient than race.
Obama & the
Immigrant Vote
A conversation with Kimberly
Johnson, Lorraine Minnite and
Richard Pious
Thursday, 10/30
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Was Barack Obama relatively
unsuccessful in attracting the vote
of immigrants and their secondand
third-generation descendants
among such groups as Hispanics,
Asian-Americans, white Catholics
and Jews? If that was the case in
the elections, what could explain
it? What do polling data suggest
for the presidential election? Barnard’s
political scientists Kimberley
Johnson, Lorraine Minnite and
Richard Pious tackle these questions
in a panel moderated by the
Forum on Migration director Jose
Moya. This event is co-sponsored
by the Office of Alumnae Affairs.
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