Center for International Policy Studies

Fordham University Economics, GSB and Law

A Nation of immigrants? Celebrating 50 years of the New Immigration

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Friday Oct 26th at Lincoln Center

A Nation of Immigrants?

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Hart Cellar Act

Conference Program and Bios 

8-9AM Breakfast and Registration

Welcome: Elaine Congress,  Rafael Zapata,  Father Massaro SJ

Speaker Introduction Clara Rodriguez, Fordham FCLC

Keynote:

Immigration and the Transformation of American Society

Dr. Van Tran, Sociology, Columbia University

Panel Discussion:

Moderator: Greg Acevedo, Fordham GSS

Panelist #1: Shirley Leyro, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Panelist #2: Dora Galacatos, Feerick Center for Social Justice

Panelist #3: Maria Lizardo, Upper Manhattan Improvement Corporation

Q&A from the Audience

Closing Remarks : Summary and the Next 50 Years?
Norma Fuentes, LALS and City College of New York 

Conference Program and Bios

Special Thanks to the Conference Planning Committee 

Elaine Congress, Associate Dean and Professor for Continuing Education and Extra Mural Programs,

Erika Marte, Administrative Program Assistant at the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer

Darryl McLeod, Associate Professor of Economics,

Rafael Zapata, Chief Diversity Officer,Special Assistant to the President for Diversity & Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Photo: Migration Policy Institute 

 

DACA Renewal Benefit and Wine Tasting Please January 11th Lincoln Center Atrium Room

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 Please join us to discuss the future of President Obama’s DACA program and what Universities can do to improve the prospects and protect DACA recipients in New York and other Sanctuary cities

*photo: KJ Dakin , Yes Magazine, Vineyard worker, Luz, looks on as dusk falls across Sonoma County, where she has been working on farms since she came to California six years ago

After this 45 minute roundtable join us in sampling some wonderful small-production artisanal wines of place curated by Nolita Wine Merchants*  $200 per person See event flyer

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is President Obama’s executive action program that allows nearly 750,000 immigrants who arrive as children and graduate from high school work, open bank accounts, travel etc. To stay eligible those with DACA status should apply for renewal and related benefits before President Obama leaves office. Your tax-deductible donation will help eligible New Yorkers from any country pay DACA related renewal fees with free legal assistance generously provided by Citizenship Now. To purchase tickets, go to the “start here” web page at the end of this sentence, check the radio box next to Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute, as shown. The APEM logo below appears, scroll down to this event and choose the number of tickets and payment method, start here.

Sponsors: NY Association of Mexican Professionals and Entrepreneurs, the Fordham Center for International Policy Studies, the Feerick Center for Social Justice, and CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies*Wine tasting curated by Nolita Wine Merchants

 

 

CIPS-Elephants and Michaelango’s bon voyage Party Dec 15th 7:30 & 9:30pm

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Please join us in the Economics Department Conference room to say goodbye to students and faculty leaving before next week’s official Economics Party (same location .  Everyone is welcome to discuss Elephant shapes with plenty of Michaelanglo’s pizza. To mark this remarkable moment in history,  we review and discuss the Elephant diagram (briefly) starting with Chris Giles three minute FT video (not cats).  Does this now famous global growth incidence curve really explain recent populist backlash?  Is it an Elephant or a Mastodon?

Don’t worry there is a happy ending… average OECD middle class workers incomes did not actually fall, they gained less, perhaps relative deprivation matters too…

What can we do?  Nothing right now.  So please come share a wonderful festive-beverage with Michelangelo’s pizza, freshly delivered at 7:20 and 9:20pm…   (thanks finance guy).

If possible please RSVP to Anglea or gradecon@fordham.edu but come join us anyway, another pizza is just a phone call away. It will be fun.


Growth incidence curves were very rare a decade ago. Now we have a famous one that explains everything and looks like an elephant.  Or does it?  Come to the party and see.

Just in case you miss the party, here is the video and a few holiday readings (avoid the original 2015 World Bank article, they don’t even call it an elephant).  Here is the confusing Chris Giles video, but at least he  draws the elephant in real time…

Actually the best short summary is the Economists’ “Shooting an Elephant” which includes the real elephant photo above and this very clear chart, almost all we need really, except now we have a mastodon, not a modern elephant, as in the original.

More holiday reading: reassuring findings, but someone should have told the voters… Adam Corlett is thorough enough to elicit a response from  Lakner and Milanov the same month (September).

References (sorry, not very cheerful i know):

Corlett, Adam. (2016) “Examining an elephant: globalisation and the lower middle class of the rich world.” Resolution Foundation, London.

DESA, U. N(2013). “Inequality matters. Report on the World Social Situation 2013.” New York, United Nations.

Economist (2016) Global inequality: Shooting an elephant via@TheEconomist

Lakner, Christoph, and Branko Milanovic (2016). “Response to Adam Corlett’s “Examining an elephant: globalisation and the lower middle class of the rich world”.

Milanovic, Branko, and Christopher Lakner (2015) “Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession” The World Bank Economic Review 30 (2): 203-232. doi: 10.1093/wber/lhv03 http://class.povertylectures.com/WB_publication.pdf

Milanovic, Branko (2011). Worlds apart: Measuring international and global inequality. Princeton University Press.

Milanovic, Branko (2016) Global inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization, Harvard University Press.

Piketty, Thomas(2014). “Capital in the 21st Century.” Cambridge: Harvard University Figures

Porter, Eduardo (2014). A global boom, but only for some. New York Times.

Porter, Eduardo (2016). On Trade, Angry Voters Have a Point, NY Times, March 16th Wynne, Mark A2011). “Will China ever become as rich as the US?” Economic Letter, 6.

Giles and Dannon (2016) Globalisation ‘not to blame’ for income woes, study says Financial Times, Sept 13th 2016 Video version