The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided grant support to the Yale Center for International and Area Studies for a new graduate faculty seminar that will explore the issues of globalization and localization and their implications for the study and management of international labor migration and refugee movements.
Titled "Transnational Approaches to the Study of International Migration and Refugee Movements," the seminar will bring leading scholars in the field to Yale to discuss such topics as the global restructuring of capitalism, population displacements, the creation of transnational migration circuits, the politics of culture, identity and citizenship in a globalizing era, and the challenges to the sovereignty, power and projects of nation-states posed by transnational actors, structures and processes. The historical dimensions and implications of these developments for the behavior of governments and international organizations will also be considered.
Organizers of the seminar are Patricia Pessar, associate professor adjunct of American studies and anthropology, and Gaddis Smith, the Larned Professor of History. The seminar will meet Mondays beginning Sept. 9, 11:30-1:30 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. For more information, call the Global Migration Project at 432-5596.