Conference - No Margin for Error Under the auspices of the Mellon Foundation, this conference will bring together on May 12 a select group of specialists to discuss remarkable achievements in education and employment among second-generation immigrants who have experienced disadvantage in their formative years. We will take as a point of departure ethnographic data yielded by a sample of 60 young men and women interviewed in 2006 as part of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey (CILS) and analyze those data in light of critical research and insights contributed by the conference participants. Invited to the meeting are four of the young men and women interviewed for the 2006 study. Conference - The Good Samaritan in the Age of Globalization This two-day conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion in collaboration with the Center for Migration and Development is scheduled for March 29-30, 2007. The conference will bring together a group of distinguished scholars, social thinkers, and activists to discuss the ethical practical dimensions in the relationship between contemporary religious practices and international migration. Workshop in Buenos Aires - Institutions and Development in Latin America This workshop was the culmination of the phase of this comparative study supported by Princeton's Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). It brought together research teams from three Latin American countries to present and discuss final reports on three institutions - the stock exchange, the postal service, and the civil aviation authority - studied with the same research methodology in each country. The event took place at the Institute for Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2006. The final reports plus a synthetic chapter of the main findings are being assembled for publication by the Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico and an unselected university press in the United States. Seminar - Immigration and the Arts Co-sponsored by Princeton's Center for the Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, this one-day seminar brought together some twenty scholars specializing in the visual and performing arts being developed by different immigrant communities in the United States. The seminar, organized by CMD faculty affiliate Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Princeton sociologist Paul DiMaggio, was held at the University in May 2006. Fernandez-Kelly and DiMaggio are currently editing the proceedings for book publication. Conference - The North American Free Trade Agreement and Beyond Timed to coincide with the twelfth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, this two-day conference cast a broad net on contemporary processes of economic adjustment and globalization. The event brought together economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, and historians from the United States and abroad to examine directly the impact of the NAFTA treaty as well as a number of other contemporary economic and political developments in the world today. The conference, co-sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), took place in December 2005. CMD faculty affiliate Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and University of Tennessee sociologist Jon Shefner were the co-organizers. They have edited conference proceedings in a forthcoming volume of the Annals of Political and Social Sciences (March 2007). Conference in Mexico - Mexican and U.S. Perspectives in the Study of International Migration In cooperation with the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), CMD sponsored a conference on "Mexican and U.S. Perspectives in the Study of International Migration" in Taxco, Mexico, in January 2005.  The conference complemented the successful dialogue held in May 2003 between U.S. and West European scholars (see next entry) with a similar encounter between specialists on migration from both sides of the border.  The conference was organized around eight jointly agreed themes.  In each session, a paper presented by a U.S.-based scholar was commented on by a Mexican counterpart and vice-versa.  As with the 2003 conference, proceedings of the event are in the process of publication by UNAM Press in Mexico City.