Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
Public Lecture
Thursday 10th June, 6-7.30pm
Central London Venue
Professor Wayne Cornelius
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, San Diego (see attached
biography)
will speak on:
'Controlling Immigration: Lessons from the USA'
This event will focus on what has been done to control immigration by way of a
decade of experimentation (1993-2004). Policies and their social and economic
consequences (intended and unintended) will be evaluated. Questions and
answers after the lecture will give participants the opportunity to explore
potential policy lessons for the UK.
There will be no charge for this event, but places are limited and will be
allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. The event will be held in
central London, the nearest tube stations are Piccadilly Circus and Charing
Cross. Admission will start at 5.30pm and a drinks reception will follow the
lecture.
If you are interested in attending then please contact Emma Newcombe:
[log in to unmask], who will provide venue details.
BIOGRAPHY:
Wayne A. Cornelius
Gildred Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations
Adjunct Professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University
Office:
ERC Academic Administration Building, Room 106
University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0548
Phone: 858-822-4447
Email: [log in to unmask]
Cornelius is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Mexican migration to
the United States, as well as immigration policies in the United States,
Western Europe, and Japan. He is also a specialist on Mexican politics and
development. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 200
publications dealing with these subjects. He has conducted field research in
Mexico since 1962, in the United States since 1978, and in Japan and Spain
since 1992. He is a past President of the Latin American Studies
Association. He founded UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies in 1979 and
directed it from 1979-1994 and 2001-2003. He is also the founding director of
UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, established in 1999, which
conducts comparative research on international migration and refugee
movements, especially in the North American, Western European, and Asia-
Pacific regions. He was Professor of Political Science at MIT from 1971-1979
and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Oxford,
El Colegio de México, the University of Tokyo, and the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. He is a Research Fellow of the Institute
for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany) and collaborates with the Centre on
Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. He is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and the Pacific Council on
International Policy. At UCSD he teaches in the fields of comparative
politics (Mexico), research methodology, and public policy analysis
(immigration policy). He was awarded the UCSD Alumni Association’s
Distinguished Teaching Award for 2003. His current research projects include
a comparative analysis of immigration control measures and their outcomes in
11 industrialized nations; a study of the impacts of U.S. immigration control
policies on emigration from sending communities in Mexico; and a study of
voting in home-country elections by Mexican immigrants based in the United
States. Recent books are Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (co-
author/co-editor; 2nd ed., Stanford University Press, 2004), and The
International Migration of the Highly Skilled (co-author/co-editor, Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies, 2001).
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