Organized by Roger Waldinger (Director, Program on International Migration and Professor of Sociology, UCLA) and Nancy Green (History, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), this two-day conference will bring together an international group of historians and social scientists who focus on the history of international migration.
Friday, April 26, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Transnationalism and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Bunche Hall 10383
UCLA
Day 1: Friday, April 26
A Century of Transnationalism
9 AM: Introductory Remarks
Nancy L. Green, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Roger Waldinger, Department of Sociology and Program on International Migration, UCLA
9:15: Session 1
Mônica Raisa Schpun (EHESS) “Continuities and Ruptures between Japanese in Brazil and Japan ”
Emmanuel MaMung (CNRS/Université de Poitiers) “Long-term Transnationalism: Emigrants in Revolutionary Movements and Economy in China (end of 19th century – 1930s)”
Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) “Transnational Practices and Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Context: An Oral History of Migrants from the Souf region in Algeria to Nanterre (near Paris)”
Commentator: César Ayala, Department of Sociology, UCLA
11:45-1 Lunch
1 PM: Session 2
Hector Perla, Department of Latino and Latin American Studies, UCSC, “Salvadoran Transnationalism”
Jose Moya, Department of History, Barnard College
Dan Lainer-Vos, “Brothers’ Keepers: Gift Giving and the Making of Jewish American Diaspora Nationalism”
Commentator: Tobias Higbie, Department of History, UCLA
3-3:15 Break
3:15-5:30 Session 3
Madeline Y Hsu, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, "The Symbiotics of Brain Drains: Intellectual Exchange, Economic Integration, and Foreign Relations between Taiwan and the United States, 1950-1965"
Rebecca Kobrin, Department of History, Columbia University, “Currents and Currencies: The Path to Profit in the Age of Mass Migration, 1870‐1914”
Min Zhou, UCLA, Hong Liu, Nanyang Technological University, “Diasporic Development and Transnational Entrepreneurship: New Chinese Immigrants in Singapore and the United States”
Commentator: Rubén Hernandez-Leon, Director, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA
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Conference organizers:
UCLA Program on International Migration
International Institute
Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Conference co-sponsors:
Burkle Center for International Relations
Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Centre Pluridisciplinare, UCLA
Consulat général de France à Los Angeles
Department of History
Download pdf of conference agenda.
Conference Papers
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Burkle Center for International Relations, Center for the Study of International Migration