Summer Institute on International
Migration
(a collaborative project
with the Social Science Research Council)
The Summer Institute is intended to expose junior scholars to cutting-edge research and training in the field of international migration through an intensive, five-day program of workshops and conferences. Twenty-four leading immigration scholars from all social science disciplines will serve as Institute faculty by running training workshops and participating in conference sessions. The inaugural Summer Institute in 2003 was held at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego . In 2004, the Institute was held at the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles , and in 2005, it was hosted by the Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy at the University of California at Irvine. In 2006, CCIS will again be organizing and hosting the Summer Institute.
The Summer Institute has two main components: (1) training workshops for junior participants led by Institute faculty (June 19-20, 23) on issues pertaining to research design and methodology in immigration studies, and (2) two days of conference sessions (June 21-22), which will give junior scholars an opportunity to present their research and receive comments from Institute faculty. The conference will also include plenary sessions in which Institute faculty will debate issues central to the study of international migration.
Training workshops will cover general research methodologies, specific approaches to studying certain immigration research topics, and issues related to academic professionalization. Conference and plenary sessions will focus on key topics of multidisciplinary significance, depending on the interests of participating junior scholars and faculty. The Institute will also include an extensive tour of the U.S.-Mexico border by the U.S. Border Patrol. Please download the Summer Institute agenda.
Twenty-eight advanced graduate students and
recent postdoctoral scholars have been selected as junior participants for
the Summer Institute through a competitive application process. 
The
Summer Institute faculty for 2006 are: Rafael Alarcón (COLEF, Tijuana, Mexico),, Frank Bean (UC Irvine), Irene Bloemraad (UC Berkeley), Susan Brown (UC Irvine), Wayne Cornelius (UCSD), Louis DeSipio (UC Irvine), Josh DeWind (SSRC), David Fitzgerald (CCIS-UCSD), James Hollifield (Southern Methodist University), Tomás Jiménez (UCSD), Kathy Kopinak (CCIS/U of
Western Ontario, Canada), April Linton (UCSD), Philip Martin (UC Davis), Cecilia Menjivar (ASU), Natalia Molina (UCSD), Lisa Park (UCSD), David Pedersen (UCSD), Ron Skeldon (U of
Sussex, UK), John Skrentny (UCSD), Eiko Thielemann (London School of Economics), Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda (UCSD/ASU), Monica Varsanyi (CCIS-UCSD), Roger Waldinger (UCLA). Download the List of Summer Institute
Participants, Logistical Information for Junior Participants, and Logistical
Information for Faculty Participants.
Download the training workshop readings:
Mixed Methods and Immigration Research
Studying Migrant-Sending Communities
The Use of Grounded Theory in Comparative Immigration Studies
Global Migration and International Organizations
Getting Immigration Research Funded
The Fourth Annual Summer Institute is made possible by grants from the
Social Science Research Council and the following University of
California-San Diego units: Senior Vice Chancellor, Office of Graduate
Studies and Research, Division of Social Sciences, Eleanor
Roosevelt College, and the Institute for
International, Comparative and Area Studies.
