Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race
Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race
The Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race (MWWI&R) is a network of scholars dedicated to conducting research and advancing understanding of immigrant networks, social and economic integration, immigrant entrepreneurship, and challenges of exclusion and resentment among native-born populations in one of the top five destinations for newcomers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
- History
MWWI&R was first conceived by Dr. Katharine Donato and Dr. Marie Price and began in Spring 2019 at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University with the intent to rotate across universities in the metropolitan DC area from year to year.
During the 2019 - 2020 academic year, thanks to funding provided by The George Washington University Seminars Funding Program, MWWI&R brought together scholars from universities and think tanks to conduct seminars at the George Washington University with the goal to foster collaboration that leads to sponsored research, increased data sharing and the framing of questions around how metropolitan areas respond, benefit and adapt to racial, ethnic and demographic shifts in population brought on by large scale immigration.
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- Friday, September 27
- Friday, October 11
- Friday, November 15
Upcoming Seminars
- Past Seminars
MWWI&R: Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age
The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital
Saturday, 4/18/2020, 12:00pm - 7:59pm
Dae Young Kim, a professor of Sociology at George Mason University to speak on the Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital, as part of the Metropolitan Washing
MWWI&R: The Violence of Dis/Investment
White flight, Black displacement, and Gentrification in Washington, DC
Friday, 2/21/2020, 12:00pm - 6:59pm
Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California-Merced, will present on her research as part of the Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race.
MWWI&R: Salvadoran Migration to Washington, D.C.
Friday, 1/17/2020, 12:00pm - 6:59pm
Patrick Scallen, a professor of History at Georgetown University, spoke on Salvadoran Migration to Washington, D.C.