The Migration and Citizenship Section of APSA has long been in the making, and our efforts to create this section build on the work of many others. For several years, there was an APSA Working Group on Immigration and U.S. Politics, which organized several lunch sessions during the annual meeting of APSA where Working Group participants could network and discuss their research on the politics of immigration and immigrant integration in the United States. Initially, there was no active listserv or another way for Working Group participants to stay in touch between APSA meetings.
In 2009 and 2010, the Working Group on Immigration and U.S. Politics ran concurrently with the Working Group on Citizenship and Migration, which focused more specifically on issues of citizenship and the many ties between citizenship and migration. Each working group created a listserv to provide some continuity in conversation between annual meetings, but for the most part the two groups operated separately.
In 2011, these two groups merged to become the Working Group on Migration and Citizenship, which currently maintains an active and open listserv with over 230 subscribers (to join the listserv, send an email to [email protected]). The new group has brought together political scientists from a wide range of sub-disciplinary fields studying migration and citizenship issues in various parts of the globe.
During the 2011 APSA meeting, the Working Group on Migration and Citizenship organized discussion tables, bringing together scholars with an expertise in a range of migration and citizenship issues. The Working Group also hosted a discussion on the future of the Working Group, where participants expressed strong support and enthusiasm for finding ways to further institutionalize within APSA a group exclusively devoted to scholarship and teaching of migration and citizenship.
As a first step towards that goal, the coordinators of the Working Group on Migration and Citizenship (Els de Graauw, Leila Kawar, and Willem Maas) prepared an application for Related Group status. They collected over a 100 signatures from active APSA members (only 50 were needed) in support of the application, which APSA approved for 2012-2014. In New Orleans, the new Related Group on Migration and Citizenship will meet for the first time, with 1 panel allocation (2 if the group cosponsors with others). The Related Group’s Call for Proposals can be viewed at http://www.apsanet.org/content_77411.cfm. Proposals are due December 15 (2011), and we welcome proposals on a wide range of topics related to the study of migration and citizenship.
The push for Section status is a natural outgrowth of earlier efforts to give teaching, scholarship, and writing on migration and citizenship issues a more central place in the political science discipline. We prepared a draft petition for the Section on Migration and Citizenship in October and circulated it for feedback through the listserv in November. We have uploaded on this website the final version of the petition, which includes the feedback and comments of the many individuals who weighed in on the discussion.
We hope we can count on your support to make the Migration and Citizenship Section a reality. Please sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/migration-and-citizenship-section-apsa/. Please forward the petition and this website to other possible supporters.
Thank you!
- Els de Graauw (Baruch College-CUNY)
- Leila Kawar (Bowling Green State University)
- Willem Maas (York University)
In 2009 and 2010, the Working Group on Immigration and U.S. Politics ran concurrently with the Working Group on Citizenship and Migration, which focused more specifically on issues of citizenship and the many ties between citizenship and migration. Each working group created a listserv to provide some continuity in conversation between annual meetings, but for the most part the two groups operated separately.
In 2011, these two groups merged to become the Working Group on Migration and Citizenship, which currently maintains an active and open listserv with over 230 subscribers (to join the listserv, send an email to [email protected]). The new group has brought together political scientists from a wide range of sub-disciplinary fields studying migration and citizenship issues in various parts of the globe.
During the 2011 APSA meeting, the Working Group on Migration and Citizenship organized discussion tables, bringing together scholars with an expertise in a range of migration and citizenship issues. The Working Group also hosted a discussion on the future of the Working Group, where participants expressed strong support and enthusiasm for finding ways to further institutionalize within APSA a group exclusively devoted to scholarship and teaching of migration and citizenship.
As a first step towards that goal, the coordinators of the Working Group on Migration and Citizenship (Els de Graauw, Leila Kawar, and Willem Maas) prepared an application for Related Group status. They collected over a 100 signatures from active APSA members (only 50 were needed) in support of the application, which APSA approved for 2012-2014. In New Orleans, the new Related Group on Migration and Citizenship will meet for the first time, with 1 panel allocation (2 if the group cosponsors with others). The Related Group’s Call for Proposals can be viewed at http://www.apsanet.org/content_77411.cfm. Proposals are due December 15 (2011), and we welcome proposals on a wide range of topics related to the study of migration and citizenship.
The push for Section status is a natural outgrowth of earlier efforts to give teaching, scholarship, and writing on migration and citizenship issues a more central place in the political science discipline. We prepared a draft petition for the Section on Migration and Citizenship in October and circulated it for feedback through the listserv in November. We have uploaded on this website the final version of the petition, which includes the feedback and comments of the many individuals who weighed in on the discussion.
We hope we can count on your support to make the Migration and Citizenship Section a reality. Please sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/migration-and-citizenship-section-apsa/. Please forward the petition and this website to other possible supporters.
Thank you!
- Els de Graauw (Baruch College-CUNY)
- Leila Kawar (Bowling Green State University)
- Willem Maas (York University)