Change in IHRC research office hours
The IHRC will be closed for research on Wednesday and Thursday, May 2 and 3, from 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. The Center will remain open to on-site researchers 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on both days.
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The IHRC will be closed for research on Wednesday and Thursday, May 2 and 3, from 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. The Center will remain open to on-site researchers 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on both days.
The IHRC has recently received the initial shipments of materials from Professor Sucheng Chan, scholar of Asian American studies. This is the first installment of a large amount of published and unpublished materials that are scheduled to arrive over the next couple of years. The recent shipment comprises 15 linear feet of contemporary as well as older scholarship on Asian Americans (including copies of dissertations from universities nation-wide), fiction by Asian Americans, periodicals and research source files, particularly pertaining to Professor Chan's research on Cambodian refugees.
Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series: Speaker: Charles Hirschman, Ph.D. (Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington). Date: Monday, April 30, 12:15-1:15 in 50 Willey Hall. Continue reading for the abstract.
ABSTRACT: In this study, we address the theoretical and empirical debate over the impact of mass immigration on industrialization in the United States from 1880 to 1920. In particular, we measure the contribution of immigrants and their descendants to the growth and industrial transformation of the American workforce. The initial description compares the immigrant (both first and second generation) share of each industrial sector in 1880 and 1920 and then measures the immigrant share of the growth of each sector from 1880 to 1920. These methods underestimate the role of immigration, since the grandchildren of immigrants are absorbed into the long resident population. This is particularly salient since immigrants and their children constituted one-third of the American workforce in 1880 and were concentrated in cities. Through an application of shift share analysis (akin to indirect standardization), we estimate employment by industrial sector in 1920 of the 3rd generation immigrants (the grandchildren of immigrants) separately from the 4th and higher generation. The addition of the 3rd generation to the 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in 1920 shows that almost 7 of 10 manufacturing workers were of recent immigrant stock. The long resident native born white population was overrepresented in agriculture, good jobs in the public and business services, and in migration streams to the West. The slowdown and eventual closing of the door to European immigration in the 1920s created a huge demand for industrial workers that led to the expansion of the African American "Great Migration" to cities in the Northeast and Midwest.
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Snacks are provided at the talk.
For more information on our Spring 2007 Seminar Series, please visit the following URL: http://www.pop.umn.edu/seminar/seminar.shtml
Lecture by Prof. Trica Keaton, Friday, April 20, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 125 Nolte (U of M)
Presented by the Department of French and Italian (U of M)
Trica Keaton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has pursued graduate study at the Université de Paris V and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where she was also a visiting scholar. Professor Keaton is also a long-term Non-Resident Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her first book, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion was published in 2006 by Indiana University Press. Professor Keaton is currently co-editing an anthology tentatively titled Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Her current research focuses on politics of race and migration in relation to the African diaspora in the U.S. and France.
This panel discussion will address how the events of 9/11, and subsequent legislation such as the USA Patriot Act, have affected the lives of refugee, immigrant and religious minorities. Monday, April 23, 2007 (7:00-9:00 p.m.), Location: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Institute, 301--19th Ave. S., Minneapolis MN. Free and open to the public. Further information on panelists and co-sponsors.
This event follows the recent release of the Minnesota Advocates report “Voices from Silence: Personal Accounts of the Long-Term Impact of 9/11.� The panel discussion is the first in a series of community dialogues on the long-term impact of 9/11, culminating in a day-long conference this fall which will explore in depth the issues raised in the Minnesota Advocates’ report.
Donna Gabaccia, Director of the Immigration History Research Center, traces global immigration issues with Ruben Martinez, award-winning journalist and author of The New Americans and Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. May 8, 7:30 p.m. Ticket and location information.