Rethinking Theories on International Migration in the Era of Digital Globalization
Tue, 19 Nov
|Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University
This talk highlights recent empirical findings and the need for critically rethinking existing theories of migration and integration in the context of digital globalization.
Date and Venue
19 Nov 2024, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9
Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Dr. Min Zhou, a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian America Studies (founding chair of the Department of Asian American Studies) and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the President of the Sociological Research Association (2024-25). She specializes in migration & development, race and ethnicity, the new second generation, Chinese diasporas, the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology, and has published widely in these areas, including Chinatown (1992; 2024 Chinese edition), Growing up American (with Bankston, 1998), The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies (2011), The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016), Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (ed., 2017), and Beyond Economic Migration (eds., with…