CSDE will be holding a workshop on Friday, August 20th on writing extended abstracts for the Population Association of American (PAA) annual conference, which is being held in Atlanta, GA this year! This will be a remote workshop on tips and tricks for writing extended abstracts and attendees will have the opportunity to have their extended abstract reviewed by a peer and a faculty member, as well as to review one of their peers’ manuscripts. To participate, please fill out the sign up form by Tuesday, August 15th (Sign Up Form). Registration is limited to 15 participants.
PAA Extended Abstract Workshop
When: August 20th (Friday) from 10-11:30am
Where: Zoom (link sent to registrants)
Link to sign up: Sign Up Form
If you would like to receive feedback from a partner and/or faculty member, participants will send their extended abstracts to their peer review partners on September 7th and review their partner’s extended abstract by September 14th. For questions, please contact Christine Leibbrand at cleibb@uw.edu.
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) has released its estimates of the US undocumented and eligible-to-naturalize populations and updated its Democratizing Data mapping tools. CMS estimates that 10.35 undocumented immigrants and 8.1 million immigrants who are eligible to naturalize reside in the United States. These estimates and detailed demographic information about these populations are available through CMS’s Democratizing Data mapping tools. Data tool users can conduct their own state and local queries of the size and characteristics of the US undocumented and eligible-to-naturalize populations at data.cmsny.org. With these tools, it is possible to obtain detailed profiles of immigrant populations at a national, state, and sub-state level.
CMS estimates are based on data from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the US Census Bureau. Because of the in-depth questions the ACS asks, CMS can derive detailed profiles of immigrant populations that provide estimates of country of origin, years of US residency, race/ethnicity, occupation, health insurance coverage, and more. Since the launch of CMS’s Democratizing Data Initiative in 2013, CMS estimates have been broadly used by scholars, researchers, government officials, and service-providers in crafting, implementing, and evaluating programs that serve noncitizens. After a review of its data-sharing policies, CMS has again made public its sub-state level data on the US undocumented population.
For sub-state level data, please visit: http://data.cmsny.org/puma.html.
For national and state level data, please visit: http://data.cmsny.org/state.html.
CSDE is co-sponsoring panel talks on Academic Midlife with DemSemX, a coalition of population centers from across the U.S. This will be an exciting opportunity to learn about the career paths of eminent scholars after they received tenure. Within academia, there is a lot of focus and advice around getting tenure—understandably, as it represents a singular evaluation hurdle within tenure-granting institutions. Yet, academic careers can be long, and there are many decisions to be made after tenure about how to invest one’s time and energy. In the upcoming session on July 30th at 11am PT/2pm ET, Adam Gamoran (William T. Grant Foundation), Jennifer Glass (UT Austin), and Zhencaho Qian (Brown University) will discuss midlife in academia and how they have approached choices within their careers. The Zoom link for the event is here.
CSDE Affiliate Rachel Fyall and CSDE Trainee Matt Fowle recently completed a report on COVID-19 impacts on low income tenants’ housing security in Washington State (report available here). Their report was highlighted on the front page of the Seattle Times on July 21, 2021. With funding from the UW’s West Coast Poverty Center and the Population Health Initiative, Fyall and Fowle find that the pandemic led to downward residential mobility, increased rental debt, and poorer housing quality for low-income households. The pandemic has exacerbated the negative impact of housing insecurity on health as tenants are spending more time in substandard housing that is harmful to their physical and mental health. Overall, households of color have been disproportionately affected by this worsening housing security, in particular Black and Latinx tenants. The eviction moratorium has likely been successful in preventing a surge in formal evictions during the pandemic. However, methods of informal evictions and forced moves, such as landlords changing door locks and refusing to renew leases, have significantly increased. Their study employed a mixed methods approach in partnership with the Tenants Union of Washington State, draws on semi-structured interviews (n=25) and a survey (n=410) with low-income tenants to examine the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic and eviction moratoria have impacted housing security in Washington State.