Co-chairs:
Trent Alexander (jta@hist.umn.edu) Simone Wegge (wegge@mail.csi.cuny.edu) Marcelo Borges (borges@dickinson.edu)

Description:
The Migration/Immigration network comprises younger and established scholars from  around the world. Sessions focus on different aspects of long-distance and short-distance  migration. Papers often focus on processes of cultural exchange, adaptation, group and  network formation but also dissimilation. Our sessions tend to be interdisciplinary and  overlap with other SSHA networks. Participants are encouraged to explore new  methodological issues and to present  results of their research. We particularly encourage  younger scholars to submit proposals. The Migration/Immigration network fosters  international exchange and offers an outlet for reflection and analysis across disciplinary boundaries.

Social Science History Association 2006, Minneapolis

Immigration/Migration Network Meeting 3 November 2006

The network meeting was well attended and chaired by Marlou Schrover and Tobias Brinkmann. The Immigration/Migration network had sixteen panels at this meeting and we expect a similar number of panels at the next meeting in Chicago. The panels reflect a broader more global approach. The number of graduate students who presented has also increased. The network chair reminded the attendees of the tight deadline (early February 2007) for the next meeting and encouraged the submission of complete panels rather than individual papers.

The suggestion to merge with the Race/Ethnicity network seemed to be broadly welcomed by the present members of the Migration/Immigration network.

It was also suggested to have an evening event/panel outside of the hotel in Chicago. This year's evening event at the Immigration History Research Center and the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota were a big success and very well attended.

The current network chair Tobias Brinkmann (Univ. of Southampton) then resigned. Trent Alexander (Minnesota Population Center, Univ. of Minnesota) and Simone Wegge (College of Staten Island, CUNY) will serve as new network chairs, in addition to Marcelo Borges (Dickinson College) who will continue.

The following topics were suggested for the Chicago meeting in 2007. Please get in touch with the respective person, if you are interested in giving a paper.

book session on new book McKeown (Leo Lucassen)
legality / illegality (Leo Lucassen)
voluntary associations (Caroline Brettell)
transpacific / trans-Caribbean migration (Leslie Page Moch)
Mexican migration (Sylvia Pedraza)
The Wall (session on borders)
Jewish migration from Eastern Europe 1860–1950 (Tobias Brinkmann)
taking stock: transatlantic migration
globalisation
diversion ethnicity – migration (European versus US perspectiver)
diaspora concept (Caroline Brettell)
concepts: community, ethnicity, movement
religion and migration
gathering and diaspora (Steve Warner)
international migration Europe versus US (Katheleen Witz)
migration trajectories / linking
moving Americans
Childhood and migration (Dirk Hoerder)
colonial migration; formal versus informal empires
Latin America (Brian Gratton)
refugees
remittances
new receiving countries (Saudi Arabia, Ireland) Donna Gabaccia
Banlieus / gateways / suburbs (Dirk Hoerder)
movement as normative, movement as a problem (Donna Gabaccia)
DNA and migration
migration and Chicago
Operation Peter Pan
Borderlands (Dirk Hoerder)
‘guestworkers’ Europe versus US
new theories on gender and migration