CASS-SSRC Seminar Series on Migration, Social Development, and Social Protection

The CASS-SSRC Seminar Series on Migration, Social Development, and Social Protection held its second workshop in December 2012. The seminar series, funded by the Ford Foundation's China Office, brings together researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and American migration scholars. Participants in this workshop included SSRC staff Jennifer Holdaway (program director, China Environment and Health Initiative) and Josh DeWind (program director, Migration), CASS researchers from the Institutes of Population and Labor Economics (Zheng Zhenzhen) and Sociology (Zhang Zhanxin), and a number of American migration scholars, including Katharine Donato of Vanderbilt University, Phil Kasinitz of the City University of New York, and Mary Waters of Harvard University. The seminar considered citizenship, health, education, and settlement policy challenges as they relate to rural-urban migrants in China and international migrants in the United States. The group also visited New Immigrant Community Empowerment, a community organization based in New York City’s Jackson Heights that helps undocumented immigrants, and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Participants:

Richard Alba

Susan B. Carter

Chen Chuanbo

Josh DeWind

Katherine Donato

Han Jialing

Jennifer Holdaway

Philip Kasinitz

Liu Jianjin

Niu Jianlin

Richard Sutch

Van C. Tran

Wang Chunguang

Mary C. Waters

Yao Yu

Zhang Zhanxin

Zheng Zhenzhen