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.
The 2025-26 series of MWWIR is hosted at The George Washington University with support from the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences through the Cisneros Institute, the Department of Geography & Environment, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Immigration and Migration Studies.
- 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.
Upcoming Seminars
- Past Seminars
MWWIR: Turkey's Ethno Sexual Others: Migrant Women as the "Scarlet Lettered" ones of the New Turkey
Friday, 2/25/2022, 12:00pm - 6:59pm
Dilek Cindoğlu is a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Georgetown University ISIM and a Professor of Sociology at Kadir Has University. She is a graduate of Bogazici U
MWWIR: The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
Friday, 1/28/2022, 12:00pm - 6:59pm
Anna Maria Mayda is an Associate Professor of Economics at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and in the Department of Economics.
Friday, 11/19/2021, 12:00pm - 6:59pm
Lauren Carruth is a medical anthropologist specializing in humanitarian assistance, global health, food security, refugees, and the Horn of Africa.