Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race

Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race

Metropolitan Washington Workshop on Immigration & Race (MWWI&R)


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

 

Immigration Detention Inc

Immigration Detention Inc

How money drives the exploding detention system

Friday, 10/3/2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

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MWWIR April 4th Event

Trump Administration Immigration Actions

Mass Deportations Off to a Slow Start

Friday, 4/4/2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

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Criminal Violence and Attitudes toward Immigration in Mexico

Criminal Violence and Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Mexico

Friday, 2/7/2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join us for the February edition of MWWIR!