May 17, 2012
Immigration and Reform: US and Mexico
On November 1, 2011 Transatlantic Academy former fellow Rey Koslowski hosted a conference on U.S. Mexican Immigration. This academic/journalist workshop was part of a research and policy analysis project on “The International Context of Immigration Reform: US, Mexico and Beyond” supported by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany (SUNY) and co-sponsored by the Transatlantic Academy and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The objective of the workshop was to share research findings, relevant data and information about immigration that go beyond immediate, well-covered, pro-con debates but rather provide deeper background and broader context for these debates. The workshop also considered events and issues that do not always receive much attention in the press (or academia) as well as discussed media coverage of migration and immigration reform. The workshop took place before the US presidential primary elections with the hope that the workshop would help generate ideas for in-depth coverage and analysis of immigration policies and immigration reform proposals. Participants included journalists who have reported extensively on immigration; those more recently assigned to immigration beats as well as young immigrant journalists. Each of the sessions outlined in the agenda below will be structured by a set of themes and corresponding questions. Immigration and Reform: US and Mexico
