Program

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 

Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:45 pm 

Panel 1 – Local Communities and Culture

  • Ran Abramitzky, Professor of Economics,
    Stanford University
    Cultural Assimilation During Two Ages of Mass Migration

  • Sandra Rozo, Assistant Professor, USC Marshall School of Business 
    Impacts of Refugee Inflows in Hosting Economies

  • Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University
    Unity in Diversity: How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building

3:00 pm – 4:10 pm

Panel 2 – Laws and Documentation

  • Haimanti Roy, Associate Professor of History, University of Dayton
    Technologies of Migration: Passports, Citizenship, and the Post-Colonial Indian State
     
  • Michael A. Clemens, Center for Global Development and IZA
    Household effects of temporary low-skill work visas: Evidence from the India-Gulf Corridor

4:25 pm – 5:35 pm

Panel 3 – Seasons and the Weather

  • Mark Rosenzweig, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, Yale University 
    Risk, Investment and Anticipatory Migration
     
  • Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics, Yale University 
    Seasonal Migration to Counter Seasonal Deprivation: A Research Program in Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2018

8:30 am – 10:15 am 

Panel 4 – Generations and Networks
 

  • Sam Asher & Paul Novosad, Center for International Development, Harvard and Development Research Group, the World Bank 
    Intergenerational Mobility in India: Estimates from New Methods and Administrative Data
     
  • Dean Yang, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan  
    Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Earnings and Economic Development in the Philippines
     
  • Isha Dubey, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University
    Negotiating Networks of Mobility: Muslim Migration to East-Pakistan and the Exercise of Agency

10:30 am – 12:15 pm

Panel 5 – States and Nations

  • Natasha Raheja, Postdoctoral Associate of Anthropology, Cornell University
    Mapping the Middle: Migration and Brokerage at the Borders of the State
     
  • Filippo Osella, Sussex Asia Centre, University of Sussex, UK
    The unbearable lightness of trust: migration, trade and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China
     
  • Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
    Does Emigration Inhibit Reform? Evidence from the Mexican Agrarian Movement, 1916-1945 

1:15 pm – 3:00 pm

Panel 6 – Space and Identity

  • Nishpriha Thakur, Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University
    The Industrious City: Claiming the City through ‘being Surti’
     
  • Steve Wilkinson, Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Political Science, Yale University
    The Indian Partition and Ethnic Cleansing
     
  • Sonika Gupta, Associate Professor of Global Politics and China Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Negotiating and Preserving Liminality: Voting Rights & Tibetan Exiles in India
     

3:15 pm – 4:25 pm 

Panel 7 – Investment and Technology

  • Renisa Mawani, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
    Across Oceans of Law: Indian Migration in Maritime Worlds 
     
  • Gaurav Khanna, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
    The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream

Closing Remarks