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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration
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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration

Global REM (Race, Ethnicity, Migration) is designed to strengthen an existing cluster of faculty and the departments, programs and interdisciplinary research centers with which they are associated, extending the contributions they already make to the diversification of research and teaching at the University of Minnesota. Minnesota has long nurtured scholarly expertise and teaching on race, ethnicity and migration. (The birthplace of immigration history in the 1920s and home of pioneering American Studies Department for over a half century, the first REM initiative organized a seminar and conference in the late 1990s.) U.S.-focused in its earlier iterations, new hires have internationalized scholarship on REM across the disciplines.

Globalization and rising flows of population inevitably raise questions about how race, ethnicity, and other forms of cultural diversity are structured and understood in all parts of the world. Global REM hopes to bring networks of expertise on all world regions into regular conversation. With a scholarly seminar, a program of pedagogy discussions and a conference planned for 2007-2008, Global REM faculty will play a special role in the education of new and increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate students. Global REM faculty can provide the cultural expertise needed by the U to work effectively with new and old immigrant and ethnic communities in the Twin Cities and beyond.

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Recent News

  • SPRING '12: "Making the Global Local: Pathways to Minnesota" & "Immigration and Public Policy"

    Instructor: Prof. Donna Gabaccia (CLA 3500/ GloS 4900): This interdisciplinary senior seminar introduces students with global competencies (language, earlier study on Asia, Africa, Europe or Latin America) to collaborative research through the digital humanities.

    Instructor: Prof. Katherine Fennelly, PA5452: Introduction to the most important issues and to authors who have written about proposals for immigration reform in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia.
  • UMN Minnesota Population Center Receives $8 Million Grant

    The U's Minnesota Population Center has received an $8 million National Science Foundation grant to develop the world's largest population database with global environmental data. Nicknamed "TerraPop," the unique database will provide a powerful tool for migration scholars in the future.
  • Institute for Advanced Study Offers Fellowships for 2012-2013

    Fellowships are available during 2012-2013 through the Institute for Advanced Study for University of Minnesota faculty and external scholars collaborating with the center's scholarly initiatives. Many IAS programs deal with globalization, transnationalism and other topics of interest to scholars of immigration and migration.

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