CMS Brown Bag Series with Dr. Els de Graauw

CMS Brown Bag Series with Dr. Els de Graauw

Event Date and Time January 24, 2020 12:00 pm
Event Ends January 24, 2020 1:30 pm
Venue Center for Migration Studies of New York — 6th Floor
Venue Address 307 E 60th St, New York, NY 10022, USA

REGISTER

Join the Center for Migration Studies for its second quarterly brown bag series, featuring Els de Graauw.  

Dr. de Graauw will present on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in metropolitan Houston. She will explain how immigrants’ experiences of new federal rights and benefits is shaped by this diverse, politically mixed, geographically sprawling, and civically underserved city. A light lunch of pizza will be provided. 

This event is free and open to students, researchers, and practitioners of all disciplines. Advance registration is required.

SPEAKER PROFILE

Els de Graauw is Associate Professor at Baruch College, the City University of New York, with an appointment in the Department of Political Science and teaching responsibilities also in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. 

Her research addresses immigration, civil society organizations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, and public policy, with a focus on understanding how governmental and nongovernmental organizations build institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation. She is the author of Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Cornell University Press, 2016).

For more information, visit her website or follow her on Twitter (@edegraauw)