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Assessing the Contribution of Foreign Born Workers to the U S Economy with James Witte
Rumi ForumThe mission of the IIR is to refocus the immigration conversation among academic, policy-makers and the public by producing and disseminating unbiased and objective, interdisciplinary academic research related to immigrants and immigration to the United States. The talk will review initial findings summarizing the geographic dispersion and occupational concentration of immigrants based on U.S. Census data. Special attention will be paid to U.S. workers born in Turkey and other countries with large Turkic populations. James Witte is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Social ScieRead moreShow less
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The mission of the IIR is to refocus the immigration conversation among academic, policy-makers and the public by producing and disseminating unbiased and objective, interdisciplinary academic research related to immigrants and immigration to the United States. The talk will review initial findings summarizing the geographic dispersion and occupational concentration of immigrants based on U.S. Census data. Special attention will be paid to U.S. workers born in Turkey and other countries with large Turkic populations.
James Witte is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University. Witte, who earned his PhD from Harvard in 1991, has been a professor at Clemson University and Northwestern University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center and a lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Witte's ongoing research focuses on ways to use the world wide web to collect survey data, the similarities and differences between online and off-line societies and the economic contributions of U.S. immigrants..
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http://picasaweb.google.com/110222538312634006729
The mission of the IIR is to refocus the immigration conversation among academic, policy-makers and the public by producing and disseminating unbiased and objective, interdisciplinary academic research related to immigrants and immigration to the United States. The talk will review initial findings summarizing the geographic dispersion and occupational concentration of immigrants based on U.S. Census data. Special attention will be paid to U.S. workers born in Turkey and other countries with large Turkic populations.
James Witte is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University. Witte, who earned his PhD from Harvard in 1991, has been a professor at Clemson University and Northwestern University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center and a lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Witte's ongoing research focuses on ways to use the world wide web to collect survey data, the similarities and differences between online and off-line societies and the economic contributions of U.S. immigrants..
