On April 20-21, 2017, the Center for Global Migration Studies will host the inaugural workshop of the Global Labor Migration Network. The Center's mission is to study migration through interdisciplinary collaborations and through a global framework. It is also committed to a model of engaged scholarship and pedagogy that seeks to illuminate contemporary social problems. The conditions surrounding global labor migration today--unprecedented in world history--provide the challenge and opportunity for precisely this model.

The workshop will feature two days of panels. The first day will conclude with a public talk given by Ruth Milkman (CUNY Graduate Center) titled “Precarity and Polarization: Global Migrants in the 21st Century U.S. Labor Market.” The lunchtime talk on April 21 will feature Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO Vice President for International Affairs, on the policy implications of global labor migration research. We will conclude with time to meet as a group to discuss next steps and to brainstorm for the major conference planned for 2019.