CMS is proud to present this year’s Speaker Series, focused on the theme “Migration, Racialization, and Inequality.” As global migration increases, racial and ethnic inequalities continue to shape the experiences of migrants. This series will explore how racialization contributes to systemic disparities and how migrants resist these challenges. By welcoming four experts addressing these pressing issues, we aim to deepen our understanding of the complex intersection between race and migration, fostering critical dialogue, stronger research and greater equity.
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Monday, September 16, 2024, 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM
“Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North”
Andrew S. Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
Abstract
Is there a backlash against non-white refugees in the Global North? Contrasting responses to those fleeing the Syrian civil war and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine reveal differences in the treatment of displaced persons. Challenging economic and foreign policy explanations, I argue that racial prejudice influences public attitudes and policy responses. Two tests reveal that non-white refugee arrivals prompt more restrictive policies and public support for such measures, while white refugees do not. Political media consumption moderates these effects. These findings have important implications for responses to future humanitarian crises.
About Andrew S. Rosenberg
Andrew Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research examines racial inequality in international migration, global racial inequality and dependency, and international order. His first book, Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration (Princeton University Press, 2022) won an award from the APSA Race, Ethnicity and Politics section. Rosenberg’s work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, and Security Dialogue, among other outlets. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University.
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Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM
“Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-Belonging in Plural Societies”
Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara & Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Abstract
Based on years of ethnographic research on France’s present antiracist movement and mobilization against state violence, I introduce a framework of “suspect citizenship” which demonstrates how ethnoracial minorities are constantly outside of the boundaries of full societal inclusion. I argue that postcolonial plural societies like France position a certain populations as suspect or suspicious, due to their ethnoracial assignment. I examine suspect citizenship at the nexus between active citizenship, belonging/non-belonging, antiracism at a macro level, and activism against state violence. I consider how certain populations are automatically rendered suspicious or suspect by virtue of their ethnoracial assignment on micro and macro levels, and how this construction of citizenship is not just a postcolonial formation. I discuss how we can understand how individuals resist their categorization as suspect through examining mobilization against state violence, as well as how suspect citizenship exists without state recognition of ethnoracial difference. Suspect citizenship is therefore a framework and mode for understanding and making sense of how colonial hierarchies are maintained in postcolonial or neocolonial societies.
About Jean Beaman
Jean Beaman (she/her) is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and a Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques. She was a 2022-2023 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a Co-PI for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, “Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context” for 2020-2022.
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Monday, February 10, 2025, 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM
Jennifer A. Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
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Monday, March 3, 2024, 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM
Laura Madokoro, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University
Stay tuned for more information about the talks!
