USC PERE and USC CSII have merged under a new name. Effective July 22nd, 2020, our new name and tagline is: USC Equity Research Institute (ERI): Data and Analysis to Power Social Change.
Visit our ERI website FAQ page to learn more about the rebrand.
Thank you to everyone who attended CSII's events and our partners' events.
An archive of past events is listed below.
Join us for our Fall CSII event: a panel discussion on new migration flows, the methods of control in which the U.S., Mexico, and Central America are collaborating to prevent refugees from seeking asylum in the U.S., and what our humanitarian obligations are to refugee and asylum seekers.
Panelists:
Javier Hernandez-Director, Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice
Stephanie Canizales-Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California Merced
David FitzGerald-Professor, Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego
Moderator:
Jody Agius Vallejo-Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, University of Southern California
Register here: bit.ly/2k1prVV
The Sanctuary Cities: Safeguarding Constitutional Protections During a Hostile Administration symposium will be held at the USC Gould School of Law Faculty Lounge on March 28th, 2019 from 8:30am - 2pm.
It features new research & conversations about implementation & infractions to SB54, as well as discussions with faculty and community leaders like CSII's Prof. Manuel Pastor, Dr. Linda Lopez, Layla Razavi, and more.
RSVP here for tickets! >> http://ow.ly/tFcK50mZHp8
Join USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) and partners at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center's (ILRC) New Americans Campaign to learn about CSII's latest research and interactive mapping tool on the eligible-to-naturalize populations in the U.S.
USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) is excited to co-sponsor an event at USC's Bovard Auditorium with renowned author and activist, Jose Antonio Vargas. Mr. Vargas will be in conversation with USC Professor and author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, about his latest book, Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. Following the talk, there will be books available for purchase and signing.
ADMISSION:
This is a ticketed event. A limited number of free tickets will be available for USC students only. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, August 28, at 9 a.m.
USC Student Free Tickets: RSVP
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Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas in conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. The event will celebrate the release of Vargas’s provocative memoir about immigration in America.
In 2011, Jose Antonio Vargas became America’s best-known undocumented immigrant when The New York Times Magazine published his story about his life in the United States after arriving from the Philippines in 1993 at the age of twelve. By coming out publicly as undocumented, he was risking everything he had built in the United States. Now, in Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Vargas examines not only the facts of immigration but also the searing emotional reality of living for 25 years as a contributing member of a country that does not consider him one of its own. The memoir is as much about the excruciating state of existence of undocumented immigrants as it is about the politics of immigration. Vargas will be joined by USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen for a captivating and timely conversation on Dear America and the facts, myths, and human stories of immigration that the media has not covered.
Bios:
Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. He is the founder and CEO of Define American, the nation’s leading non-profit media and culture organization that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling. He has worked as a reporter at The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. In addition, he has produced and directed Documented, an autobiographical feature documentary that aired on CNN, and White People, an hourlong MTV special on what it means to be young and white in a changing America. Currently subject to deportation at any time, he has no permanent residence.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at USC. He is also the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, and the short-story collection The Refugees.
Presented by Skylight Books. Co-sponsored by the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) and USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative.
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LOS ANGELES BOOK RELEASE PARTY
Join USC PERE/CSII and The California Endowment to celebrate the release of Prof. Manuel Pastor's latest book, State of Resistance: What California's Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America's Future.
Wednesday, April 25
6:00pm - 8:30pm
The California Endowment
1000 Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) brought together nearly 300 people for our conference, California Bold: Leading Policies and Movements for Immigrant Integration. The conference was an opportunity for people to come together from community-based organizations, governmental agencies, funders, civic leaders, and others to celebrate the work that has taken place across the state, discuss what needs to be done to defend current policies while developing new ones, and identify opportunities to deploy new strategies with the state and beyond
To learn more about our California Bold Conference, visit the conference website>>
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