IAL-II will provide a new, crucial opportunity to share evidence-based practical advice and lessons learned regarding the inclusion of children and older adults in clinical studies. For registration and more information: https://www.nia.nih.gov/Inclusion-Across-Lifespan-2020#Registration.

The organizers of “Racialization and Immigration: How Immigrant and Immigration Narratives Reproduce and Challenge Systems of Oppression” are inviting paper submissions for their virtual conference in December. The underlying goal of this conference is to highlight research on the social construction of immigrants and immigration that emphasizes racialization approaches and challenges assimilationist paradigms. The conference participants will contribute to the existing literature by complicating the racialization literature through intersectional frameworks, de-centering the state in these analyses, centering analyses on alternative narratives, expanding the focus of immigrant constructions beyond the mainstream media and the state and towards other institutions and groups, and examining under-studied research locales. Consequently, this conference should attract a broad and interdisciplinary audience of scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, intersectionality, political sociology, and social movements.

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Professor Pawan Dhingra (Amherst College) and Professor Tanya Golash-Boza (UC Merced) invite International Migration Section members to contribute to a special issue of the journal Social Sciences that they are co-editing, entitled Immigration and White Supremacy in the 21st Century.

Special issue information: “Where do immigrants fit into this renewed conversation on systemic racism? Immigrants have been victims of historic and contemporary forms of racial discrimination and nativism, which in turn have increased their economic marginalization. At the same time, immigrants are accused of trafficking in anti-Black racism and not supporting mass movements for racial equality. This special issue welcomes articles that incorporate an intersectional (of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability…) approach to the study of immigration and white supremacy, which immigrants are both victims of and accused of reproducing.”

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• Identify and prepare datasets that provide independent evidence about a claim found in this spreadsheet. Researchers will receive $2,000 for each data set they prepare. The claims that are not already highlighted should be prioritized. The first step is to complete a data proposal following this template, which should be submitted to Andrew or Anna at COS.
• Analyze a dataset provided to you. Researchers will receive $1,000 for each data set they analyze. The list of studies available for analysis is here. Any project not highlighted is still available, and this list will be continually updated as more datasets become available. Researchers should contact Andrew or Anna at COS when they’ve identified a project they’d like to serve as a data analyst for.

For more details, contact Philip Cohen, pnc@umd.edu