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CHAIR Charles Hirschman University of Washington [email protected] CHAIR ELECT Victor Nee Cornell University [email protected] Newsletter 10 – Fall 1999 PAST CHAIR Philip Kasinitz IN THIS ISSUE Hunter College SECRETARY TREASURER FROM THE CHAIR’S DESK PAGE 2 Brendan Mullan by Charles Hirschman Department of Sociology Michigan State University MINUTES TAKEN AT THE 1999 ANNUAL MEETING PAGE 3 [email protected] COUNCIL GROWING UP AMERICAN WINS THOMAS AND ZNANIECKI Mehdi Bozorgmehr 2002 AWARD PAGE 4 CUNY City College and Grad Center IRENE BLOEMRAAD WINS STUDENT PAPER Gordon F. DeJong 2001 AWARD PAGE 4 Pennsylvania State University Peggy Levitt 2002 INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SECTION ANNOUNCES Welllesley College 2000 AWARDS Vilma Ortiz 2001 University of California, Los Angeles Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award PAGE 5 Audrey Singer 2000 Carnegie Endowment for Distinguished Student Scholarship Award PAGE 5 International Peace Min Zhou 2000 Distinguished Career Award PAGE 5 University of California, Los Angeles STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SECTION SESSIONS PAGE 6 Patricia Landolt ASA MEETING, Washington, DC, August 2000 Johns Hopkins University WEBMASTER ANNOUNCEMENTS Tom Kuecker Michigan State University SSRC Research Fellowships for 2000-2001 PAGE 6 [email protected] Adult Children of Immigrants http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~intermig NEWSLETTER EDITOR ASA Student Forum PAGE 6 Steven J. Gold Department of Sociology, Berkey Calls for Papers and Manuscripts PAGE 7 Hall Michigan State University RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON MIGRATION PAGE 8 East Lansing, MI 48824-1111 Fax (517)432-2856 [email protected] FROM THE CHAIR’S DESK the correct information for the ASA machinery, more or less on schedule. Charles Hirschman My other activity as chair is to muse on the juxtaposition University of Washington of the accomplishments of the Section’s membership and our perennial struggle to keep our membership above the 300 minimum to keep our Section alive. In addition to What exactly does the Chair of an ASA Section actually Alejandro Portes, who has just completed his term as do? The first thing, and one of the most important, is to ASA president, our Section is represented in ASA show up at the all the sessions and functions of the leadership circles by president-elect Douglas Massey, Section. As the incoming chair, I had no formal and vice-president elect Richard Alba. As I scan the list of responsibilities at last year’s ASA meetings, but was our Section members, I predict that there will be several available to be introduced by Chair Phil Kasinitz as the more ASA presidents from our fairly small numbers. target for all future inquiries. I particularly enjoyed our Clearly, our area of interest is attracting many of the most reception at the Chicago meetings. This event, jointly talented scholars in the discipline. Perhaps, this is why sponsored by the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, was our sessions are so lively and well attended at the annual held to honor ASA President (and Section member) meetings. Alejandro Portes. In addition to the pleasure of chatting with old friends, these occasions provide a very nice How does this “success” square with our relatively small opportunity to meet many new members of the Section. I Section membership? As my predecessors have done in was really pleased when several people introduced prior years, I am expecting to gear up a membership drive themselves and expressed a willingness to become more next summer, including (I am told) the likelihood of paying active in Section activities. All were promptly taken up on the membership dues of prospective graduate student their offers. recruits. My guess is that our small numbers reflect the reality that our area is primarily a research specialty In the weeks following the ASA meetings, the chair faces rather than a teaching area in the discipline. We are a series of deadlines for the planning of next year’s drawn from many other areas, including race and meetings and other organizational matters. The most ethnicity, demography, social psychology, urban ecology, important task is to organize our Section’s sessions for and political sociology. This diversity of interests and the 2000 ASA meetings. The aim in organizing sessions backgrounds certainly contributes to our wide ranging and is to try to have a catchy title that attracts interest, but interesting sessions. But it also means that we are less one that is also general enough to accommodate the likely to have a core constituency defined by those who research interests of most of our members. We are very teach courses in international migration and immigration fortunate that Luin Goldring agreed to serve as the on a regular basis. In a concerted effort to bring up organizer for one session on “Comparative Studies of Section membership, and to bring a bit of coherence to International Migration,” and that Luis Falcon agreed to my jumbled life, I have decided to start teaching new organize another session on “Immigration and Ethnicity in courses this year on “Immigration and Ethnicity” and the United States.” Audrey Singer will be organizing our “International Migration.” I will let you know how it works Section Roundtables that have proven to be so popular at out. prior meetings. In the “Call for Papers for the ASA 2000 Meetings,” (recently mailed to all ASA members) you will be able to find the necessary information to submit a paper for one of these sessions and others on next year’s ASA program. The chair also deals with frequent requests, reminders, and follow-up reminders from the ASA for names—the MINUTES TAKEN AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE names of members serving on the Section’s committees: ASA SECTION ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION – the nominations committee, the Thomas and Znaniecki TUESDAY AUGUST 10, 1999 IN CHICAGO AT 1:30 PM Award committee, the Outstanding Student Paper Award committee, the Distinguished Career Award committee, Introductions and so on. Keeping track of messages from missed The annual meeting of the International Migration Section phone calls, email correspondence that went astray was brought to order at 1:35pm by Phil Kasinitz, Chair. because of job changes or sabbaticals, and various ASA Approximately 50 people were in attendance. The Chair directives and guidelines was sometimes a losing battle. welcomed the membership and thanked all those who had Fortunately, I was able to call upon help from Past-Chair participated in the section’s sessions, which were well Phil Kasinitz, Secretary-Treasurer Brendan Mullan, and attended and interesting. The Chair especially welcomed Newsletter Editor Steve Gold. They were able to provide the new incoming Chair (Charles Hirschman) and the new 2 members of the section’s Council (Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster, the secretary-treasurer Peggy Levitt) and Chair-Elect (Victor Nee). agreed to implement these changes. Secretary-Treasurer Report Awards In his report the secretary-treasurer (Brendan Mullan) The highlight of this year’s meeting was the presentation focused on four major themes: 1) the section’s current of our Thomas and Znaniecki Award and our Student financial status, 2) preliminary budget for 2000, 3) Section Paper Award. Guillermino Jasso presented the Thomas membership, and 4) other issues. and Znaniecki award to Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III for their book Growing up American: How Vietnamese Current Financial Status Children Adapt to Life in the United States (New York : The section remains within budget. We have just paid the Russell Sage Foundation, 1998). Milton Vickerman production and distribution costs associated with the presented the Student Paper Award to Irene Bloemraad Spring Newsletter and miscellaneous costs associated (Harvard University) for her paper “A Macro-Institutional with WWW home page maintenance and purchase of Approach to Immigrant Political Incorporation: Comparing awards. Like many other sections, we were unable to the Naturalization Rates and Processes of Portuguese underwrite the cost of a reception at the annual meetings Immigrants in the U.S. and Canada." A special honorable in Chicago, but through the good efforts of Phil Kasinitz, mention award went to Elizabeth Grieco (Florida State we nevertheless did host a reception with generous University) for her paper: "The Effects of Migration on the support from Ethnic and Racial Studies. Options being Establishment of Networks: Caste Disintegration and considered to enable the holding of receptions at Reformation among the Indians of Fiji." Respectfully subsequent ASA meetings include combining with other Submitted by Brendan Mullan. sections and/or hosting the reception away from the official hotel conference site. 2000 Draft Budget The 2000 draft budget will be finalized and submitted with our section’s annual report to ASA by 10/15/99. The GROWING UP AMERICAN WINS major items of expenditure will be costs associated with THOMAS & ZNANIECKI AWARD the production and distribution of our bi-annual newsletter, ASA reception costs, and awards and miscellaneous The Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Scholarship costs. Award is given annually to the outstanding book or research monograph in the sociology of immigration published during the preceding two years. The Award given in Membership Issues August 1999 was for work published in calendar years As of 9/30/98 our section membership totaled 283, a 1997 and 1998. The winner was Growing up American: decrease from the 305 members reported on 9/30/97. A How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United section membership of 300 is required by ASA. This is a States written by Min Zhou (UCLA) and Carl L. Bankston serious issue and the secretary-treasurer exhorted all III (University of Southwestern Louisiana). members present to lobby colleagues, students, and other relevant constituencies in a concerted attempt to get our membership back above the critical 300 level. (As of 9/30/1999 the section’s membership is above 300).