During each academic year, the committee sponsors a seminar series on international migration, held at MIT's Center for International Studies (CIS). In fall 2005, the series was re-named The Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration in honor of the late founder of the Inter-University Committee and former director of CIS. The seminars explore factors affecting international population movements and their impact upon sending and receiving countries and relations among them.
Spring 2022 Seminars | |
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April 15
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The Ongoing Crisis for Afghan Refugees |
April 29
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Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp |
Fall 2021 Seminars | |
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November 5
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Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe |
December 3
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Immigrant entrepreneurship in startup cities — what works in which context? |
Spring 2021 Seminars | |
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March 4
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Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies |
March 11
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Millionaire Mobility and the Sale of Citizenship |
March 18 |
Race, Refugees and Europe: A look back at the last decade |
Fall 2020 Seminars | |
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October 20 |
Future Aspirations among Refugee Youth in Turkey between Integration and Mobility |
October 30 |
Immigration and Epidemics: An Historical Perspective |
November 5 |
Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf |
November 20 |
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide |
Spring 2020 Seminars | |
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February 4 |
Open Borders, Local Closures: Municipal Curfews and the Lebanese Response to the Syrian Refugee Influx |
February 25 |
The Failed Accession of Turkey to the European Union and the Migrant Crisis |
Fall 2019 Seminars | |
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October 16 |
Ethnic Identity: Developing a Latina/o identity |
October 29 |
Our Hidden Borders: Guantanamo, Interdiction, and the Rise of Offshore Migration Policing |
November 4 |
America’s Immigration Dilemma |
Spring 2019 Seminar | |
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March 18 |
CANCELLED |
Fall 2018 Seminars | |
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October 2 |
Current State of U.S. Immigration: Trends, Policy Issues, and Public Opinion |
December 4 |
Asian Americans and Affirmative Action Policy |
Spring 2018 Seminars | |
March 6 |
The Israeli Asylum System - from Social Exclusion to Deportation |
April 3 |
Land Use Planning Innovations in the Midst of a “Migration Crisis”: Transitioning to Long Term Refugee Housing in Hamburg, Germany |
Fall 2017 Seminars | |
October 24 |
Another History of the Refugee Convention's Additional Protocol |
November 7 |
The Migrant Passage: Survival Plays and Clandestine Journeys from Central America |
Spring 2017 Seminars | |
February 27 |
Starr Forum: Fight Over Foreigners: Visas & Immigration in the Trump Era |
April 27 |
China's 'Refugee Policy Divide' and the Predicament of North Korean Defectors |
Fall 2016 Seminars | |
September 20 |
Immigration, Democracy, and Discrimination in Small Town America |
November 1 |
State DAPA? And Other Thoughts on US Immigration Policy in the New Administration |
Spring 2016 Seminars | |
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February 9 |
Migrants’ Rights in the UN Human Rights Committee |
March 15 |
Understanding the Impact of War and Displacement in Cities: |
April 19 |
Panel Discussion: “Refugees and migrants: the current crisis in Greece and Europe” |
Fall 2015 Seminars | |
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September 29 |
Cash, Corn, and Coffins: Mobility, Remittances and Social Protection in Zimbabwe |
October 27 |
Muslims in Europe: Transnational Integration Politics |
December 8 |
Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises with particular emphasis on the refugees in the Middle East |
Spring 2015 Seminars | |
March 6 |
Theorizing International Migration: Towards a Unified Field of Study |
March 31 |
Dreaming Europe in the Wake of the Arab Revolts: Causes and Consequences of Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe |
April 28 |
Migration, National Security, and New forms of Policing: Dubai and Abu Dhabi |
Fall 2014 Seminars | |
October 7 |
African Migration |
November 4 |
40th of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration (IUCIM) |
December 2 |
Conditions of violence in Central America and their effects on emigration from that Region |
Spring 2014 Seminars | |
February 4 |
Seeking Harmony between the Formal and Informal: Integrating Migrant Remittances for Post-Conflict Development |
April 15 |
Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon: Current and Looming Problems |
Fall 2013 Seminars | |
September 17 |
Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement |
October 22 |
Making their Way -- Women Migrants in Southern Mozambique, 1945 - 1975 |
Spring 2013 Seminars | |
February 5 |
The Human Cost Towards India's Race for Development |
Fall 2012 Seminars | |
October 23 |
The Other Euro Crisis: Refugee Rights Violations and the Unraveling of EU Solidarity |
November 13 |
Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland |
Spring 2012 Seminars | |
February 7 |
International Migration, Refugees and Forced Migrants: Questions Answered and Questions Remaining |
February 21 |
Immigrants and Voting in the US |
March 20 |
Negotiating Homelands: African Indians of South Asias |
Fall 2011 Seminars | |
October 25 |
Assimilation: New Theoretical and Empirical Analyses |
Spring 2011 Seminars | |
March 29 |
Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico |
April 18 |
Mobilizing for Refugee Protection: To Mark the 60th Anniversary of UNHCR and the 1951 Refugee Convention |
Fall 2010 Seminars | |
November 10 |
Unmaking Citizens: The Law and Politics of Denaturalization in the 20th Century United States |
December 2 |
Recombinant Geographies of Citizenship: Differentiation's of 'the Right to the City' in Sáo Paulo, Caracas, and Buenos Aires |
Contact Details:
Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration at MIT
Center for International Studies
1 Amherst Street, E40-400
Cambridge, MA 02142
cis-migration@mit.edu