Upcoming Event
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
Join us on May 1st to discuss research from: Kellie Wilkerson, Institute for Immigration Research Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Sociology and Anthropology Department, George Mason University Dr. Lisa Gring-Pemble, Associate Professor, Costello College of Business, George Mas...
Past Event
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
Join us on April 3rd to discuss research from: Umida Hashimova, Institute for Immigration Research Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student, Sociology and Anthropology Department, George Mason University Dr. Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, School ...
Umida Hashimova is a doctorate student and a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Immigration Research. Her primary research centers around the leverages migration tends to give to migrant receiving countries over migrant sending countries. Umida returned to academia after years of exper...
Dr. Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen is Assistant Director of the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR). Her areas of expertise include U.S. immigration law and policy, legality and membership, refugee resettlement, and global migration management. Her research is interdisciplinary and adopts multiple ...
The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2023-24 annual theme, "Democracy, Disposability, and Repair." Congratulations to all of our new faculty and graduate fellows! Learn more abou...
David W. Haines received his M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies and Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University. Prior to coming to George Mason University in 1997, he had worked for the federal government's refugee resettlement program and served as a senior manager at the Virginia Workers' Compensa...
In 2019, more than 270 million people globally were on the move. Push and pull factors, such as the demand for both skilled and unskilled laborers, declining fertility rates in the global North, as well as economic, political, and environmental crises in the global South, have contributed to increase...
The process of globalization is widely recognized as profoundly reshaping social structure—the rules, practices and institutions of society—and transforming the lives of practically everyone across the globe. In its current phase, globalization is described as the process of increasing political, eco...
What is race? What is ethnicity? Why do race and ethnicity continue to exert a powerful influence in people's lives in many parts of the world? How does a comparative examination of race, ethnicity, and migration complicate ethnic relations? This course uses a historical lens to explore migration ...
Dae Young Kim is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. He received his B.A. in Sociology and Spanish from SUNY-Binghamton and his Ph.D. in Sociology from CUNY Graduate Center. His articles and book chapters on immigrant integrat...
