The Global Migration Center is pleased to invite you to its new event series, ‘Migration Talks’. This series of lectures has been designed of allow guest speakers from a variety of disciplines to present their works on the topic of migration and engage in discussion with the broader Graduate Institute community. This represents a unique opportunity for students, doctoral candidates, and researchers to network, discuss research, and foster interdisciplinary intellectual engagements over the crucial topic of migration in its multiple nuances.

About the speaker

Prof. James Hollifield is Professor of Political Science, Ora Nixon Arnold Chair in International Political Economy, and Director of the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University. He is a Wilson Center Global Fellow. He received his PhD in political science from Duke University in 1985. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has worked as a consultant for a variety of governmental and intergovernmental organizations, and he has published widely on international political and economic issues, including Immigrants, Markets and States (Harvard UP), Migration Theory (Routledge), and Controlling Immigration (Stanford UP). His current projects include The Emerging Migration State—a study of how states manage international migration for strategic gains—and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge UP).