• CCIS researchers present to congressional staffers and the Congressional Research Service 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/11/ccis-researchers-present-to-congressional-staffers-and-the-congressional-research-service/
  • Jeffrey Lesser – Brazilian Journeys: Contemporary Immigration and Emigration 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/10/jeffrey-lesser/
  • Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama’s First Two Years 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/07/john-skrentnys-chapter-in-the-obama-administration/
  • The Politics of Naturalization in Europe, Asia and North America 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/05/politics-of-naturalization/
  • Ruben J. Garcia - Labor’s Approach to Immigration: How Does Law Matter? 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/05/4895/
  • "Immigration at the National and Local Level in Japan" Conference 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/05/immigration-at-the-national-and-local-level-in-japan/
  • “The Nation and Citizen in Transformation” Conference 
     
     http://ccis.ucsd.edu/2011/05/john-skrentny-and-gary-lee-the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong/
     
CCIS  

CCIS

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego is a leading international research center studying the challenges and opportunities created by migration throughout the world.

     
 

John Skrentny

John Skrentny is the Director of CCIS and Professor of Sociology at UCSD. His current research focuses on the politics of immigration and the impact of immigration on the interpretation and implementation of American civil rights laws. His work in these areas compares developments in the United States with comparable developments in both Asia and Europe. The larger goal here is to understand how law and policy are made and to identify regional patterns of development across the world. His prior studies focused on the historical development of laws and policies to protect the rights and opportunities of minorities in the United States, including African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and white ethnics, as well as immigrants, the disabled, gays/lesbians and women of all races and ethnicities. Skrentny is the author of The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America and The Minority Rights Revolution as well as editor of Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America. His areas of expertise include politics, law, social movements, ethnicity, globalization, and culture.

     
 

David FitzGerald

David FitzGerald is the Associate Director of CCIS, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, and Associate Professor of Sociology at UCSD. His research program aims to understand the laws and policies regulating international migration as a total system of interactions among actors in countries of origin and destination. In his work, FitzGerald seeks to explain how and why legal norms are diffused, the social origins of policy variation across time and place, and how the application of policy is experienced by actors in daily life. He is the author of the book A Nation of Emigrants. His areas of expertise include international migration, nationalism, transnationalism, comparative immigration and nationality law.