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How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people’s reactions, which tend to be instinctively defensive and intolerant. We know little about why and how these habits are sometimes tempered to promote more successful coexistence.
The Zolberg Institute welcomes Justin Gest to discuss these themes present in his new book Majority Minority (details below).Â
Join us on Thursday, April 21 to participate in this discussion!
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Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
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Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She has written extensively on immigration to New York City, past and present, as well as Jamaican migration to New York and London, especially on issues of race and ethnicity, gender, and family dynamics. Currently, she is writing a book on immigration and the transformation of America.
Andreas Wimmer’s research brings a long term historical and globally comparative perspective to the questions of how states are built and nations formed, how racial and ethnic hierarchies form or dissolve in the process, and when this will result in conflict and war. Most recently, he is trying to understand how ideas and institutions travel across the world and with what consequences. Using new methods and data, he continues the old search for historical patterns that repeat across contexts and times.
Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology and Politics at New York University. Using relational survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, his work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and radical-right parties.
Catherine McGahan is the Associate Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She has been in this role since August 2019. She received an M.A. in International Affairs from the Julian J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs from the New School of Public Engagement and a B.A. in Literature from Mount Holyoke College.
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