Wealth and Poverty Week on Immigrants, Feb. 1-8

The Wealth and Poverty theme presents the Ohio University Week on Immigrants, Feb. 1-8

Immigration is a significant political issue across the world. An estimated 258 million people worldwide live in a country other than their country of birth. Nearly 50 million now live in the United States.  The Wealth and Poverty Week on Immigrants brings the Ohio University community together to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by global migration flows both here and abroad.

“Immigration is the focus of intense political debate in many developed economies, certainly including the U.S. Although the notion that immigrants are harmful to the economy has been refuted by multiple studies, there is still significant disagreement about to what extent immigration affects the host society’s culture, labor market, security, and crime,” says Dr. Yeong Kim, Associate Professor of Geography and Wealth & Poverty theme coordinator.  “The Wealth and Poverty Week event features seven talks on various issues of immigration, including two on immigrant communities here in Ohio. I hope this week-long event brings an opportunity to broaden the immigration debate beyond the current focus on border control measures,” she adds.

• Friday, Feb. 1 – Tariq Tarey (photographer/visual ethnographer) “REFUGEE | An Exile Generation,” 2-3 p.m., Alden 319 – cosponsored by School of Visual Communication.
• Monday, Feb. 4 – Meredith Gartin (Global Health) “Displaced Peoples and Migrant Health: The Case of the Karen in Akron, Ohio,” 5-6 p.m., Alden 319 | Watch on A&S TV.
• Tuesday, Feb. 5 – Luis F.B. Plascencia (author of Disenchanting Citizenship and Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona) “Debating Migration: The Labyrinth of Law and Public Imaginary,” noon-1:20 p.m., Alden 319 – cosponsored by the Center for Law, Justice & Culture | Watch on A&S TV.
• Wednesday, Feb. 6 – Charlie Morgan (Sociology) “Integration of Immigrants in Japan: How My Personal Journey Led to My Research ,” 6-7 p.m., Alden 319 | Watch on A&S TV.
• Thursday, Feb. 7 – Felipe Aros-Vera (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Russ Engineering) “Understanding and Crippling Human Trafficking Networks,” 10:30-11:50 a.m., Alden 319 | Watch on A&S TV.
• Friday, Feb. 8 – Myra Waterbury (Political Science) “Populist Nationalism and the Politics of migration in Central and Eastern Europe,” noon-1 p.m., Alden 319 | Watch on A&S TV.
• Friday, Feb. 8 – Roy Boyd (Economics) “Understanding the Mexican Economy in the Era of Trump,” 3-4 p.m., Alden 319 | Watch on A&S TV.

For more information, contact Yeong Kim at kimy1@ohio.edu.