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Summer Workshop on Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the U.S

Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University: Pathways Toward Immigrant Political Incorporation in the US

Background Readings

• Race-Based Coalitions among Minority Groups
• Losing the Battle: How Political Activism Guarantees Ethnic Integration pp. 139-153

Ceri Peach, Oxford University: Britain is sleepwalking into American Ghettoisation: Really?

Background Readings

• After 7/7: Sleepwalking to Segregation
• The New Geography of Ethnicity in Britian?
• Does Britain Have Ghettos?

Ludi Simpson, University of Manchester: Myths of Segregation in the UK

Background Readings 

• Statistics of Racial Segregation
• Ethnic Minority Populations and the Labor Market
• Ghettos of the Mind

Steve Vertovec, University of Oxford: New Complexities of Cohesion in the UK

Background Readings

• Super Diversity and its Implications
• Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
• New Complexities of Cohesion in Britain: Super Diversity, Transnationalism and Civil Integration

Mary C. Waters, Harvard University: Immigration to the US and Changing Demographics

Background Readings

• Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers
• History of Immigration Legislation
• Unions between Blacks and Whites
• Assessing Immigrant Assimilation