• Podcasts

The “Dreamer” narrative often portrays undocumented youth as academically successful and awaiting immigration reform, but this overlooks the diversity of their experiences and the challenges of adulthood. In this online UC Migration Series Book Talk, Sofya Aptekar and Amy Hsin discuss how undocumented young adults' opportunities and choices are shaped not only by legal status but also by race, gender, class, family resources, sexuality, education, and community.

Beyond dreamers: Transitions to adulthood in an uncertain age

Recording of a lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam

The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

Book talk by Abdellali Hajjat, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles

The Wretched of France: The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism

Panel discussion with migration experts from Europe and the USA

Refugees and the War in Ukraine

The 2022 Annual Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies by Nadia Bouras, Assistant Professor, History, Leiden University

Moroccan Migration in the Netherlands: Facts, Myths and Moral Panic
Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All
Screening of award-winning documentary “Águilas”
Celebration of UCLA Migration Sociology
The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris
Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance
LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest
Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants
The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States
American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
“The Immigrants”
Non-Academic Employment for Migration Scholars
Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965
The Big Gamble: The Migration of Eritreans to Europe
Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation
Migration Matters: Connecting to a World in Movement
The President and Immigration Law
Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Divided by the Wall Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico
We are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
Summer Program: "Left out: How partisanship affects support for refugees in Colombia"
Summer Program: “Roots of Resistance: Organizing Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles, 1965-1994”
Summer Program: “'No Tyson in Tongie!': The Battle to Protect a Rural Way of Life in Kansas”
Lucy Mayblin, “Asylum After Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking”
Lamis Abdelaaty: "Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees"
Stephen Lee: “Family Separation as Slow Death”
John Torpey, “The Invention of the Passport Revisited”
Hans Lucht, "The Long Homecoming: Ghanaian Migrant Power and Precariousness in Italy"
Frédéric Saumade: “Religious Festivals, Bullfighting, and Rodeos in California"