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SUMMARY:Cecilia Menjivar and Panel
DESCRIPTION:State-created Categories\, Displacements and Possibilities from the Margins: A conversation with demography \nAbstract: This panel discussion is based on Menjívar’s ASA presidential address. She argues for the importance of state-created categories and classification systems that determine eligibility for tangible and intangible resources. Through classification systems based on rules and regulations\, bureaucracies maintain entrenched inequality systems that include\, exclude\, and neglect. She proposes adopting a critical perspective when using state-created and formalized categories in our research\, which would acknowledge the constructed nature of those categories\, their naturalization through everyday practices\, and their misalignments with lived experiences. This lens can reveal the systemic structures that create both state classification systems and enduring patterns of inequality. This approach can reframe questions about the people sorted into the categories we use in our work. \nPanelists: \nDr. Cecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration\, gender\, family dynamics\, social networks\, religious institutions\, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of living in contexts of multisided violence on individuals\, especially women. Her work on immigration concerns mainly the United States\, where she focuses on Central American immigrants\, whereas her work on violence is centered on Latin America\, mostly Central America. Menjívar is interested in how state power manifests itself through legal regimes and formal institutions and bureaucracies to shape microprocesses in everyday life. \nHer work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology\, Social Problems\, International Migration Review\, Ethnic & Racial Studies\, among other journals. Her most recent publications include the edited volume\, Constructing Immigrant Illegality: Critiques\, Experiences\, and Responses (Cambridge\, 2014)\, the book\, Immigrant Families (Polity 2016)\, and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Immigration Crises (Oxford\, 2019). \nDr. Cecilia Menjívar co-authored an amicus brief in the consolidated DACA cases before the U.S. Supreme Court along with a dozen other prominent empirical scholars who study DACA and its effects. One of her many prominent publications includes “Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America” (California\, 2000)\, which was the winner of the William J. Goode Outstanding book award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association\, Honorable Mention from the International Migration Section\, and a Choice Outstanding Title. Other publications include “Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala” (California\, 2011). She is co-editor of Constructing Immigrant “Illegality”: Critiques\, Experiences\, and Responses (Cambridge\, 2014)\, Latinos/as in the United States: Changing the Face of América (Springer 2008)\, and When States Kill: Latin America\, the US\, and Technologies of Terror (Texas\, 2005). \nDr. Randall Kuhn (Ph.D.\, University of Pennsylvania\, 1999) is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design\, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health\, Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health\, Kuhn leads a 35-year longitudinal study of the impact of health and development programs in Bangladesh. In the area of homelessness\, Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He co-authored recent reports on homelessness and the coronavirus outbreak for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and on health and homelessness in Los Angeles. He currently leads or co-leads new studies that use mobile phones to measure the well-being of unhoused and recently-housed populations. To learn more\, visit: https://www.homelessresearch.akidolabs.com/. \nKuhn is a fellow of the California Center for Population Research\, where he serves as Chair of the Executive Committee. He also serves on the advisory boards of the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Kuhn previously chaired the Population Sciences Subcommittee of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. For 10 years Kuhn was Director of the Global Health Affairs Program at the University of Denver\, where he developed an innovative curriculum\, tripled enrollments\, and built a programmatic emphasis on the health and human rights of disabled\, LGBTQ\, indigenous\, and migrant populations as an essential component of achieving global health justice and equity. Kuhn founded the Goal 18 campaign for inclusive UN Sustainable Development Goals. \nDr. Desi Small-Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She has partnered with Indigenous communities in the U.S. and internationally as a researcher and data advocate for more than ten years. \nDesi’s research examines the intersection of race\, indigeneity\, data\, and inequality. With a focus on Indigenous futures\, her current research explores the racialization of Indigenous identity and group boundary making\, Indigenous population statistics\, and data for health and economic justice on Indian Reservations. \nDesi directs the Data Warriors Lab\, an Indigenous social science laboratory. She is the Co-Founder of the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network\, which helps ensure that data for and about Indigenous nations and peoples in the U.S. (American Indians\, Alaska Natives\, and Native Hawaiians) are utilized to advance Indigenous aspirations for collective and individual wellbeing. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Database. She is a proud alumna of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. Sociology)\, University of Waikato (Ph.D. Demography)\, Stanford University (B.A. and M.A.). \nFaculty host: \nAbel Valenzuela Jr. is a professor of Urban Planning and Chicana/o Studies and the former director of UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. As of 2022\, Professor Valenzuela serves as interim dean for UCLA’s Division of Social Sciences. Professor Valenzuela is one of the leading national experts on day labor and has published numerous articles and technical reports on the subject. His research interests include precarious labor markets\, worker centers\, immigrant workers\, and Los Angeles. His academic base is urban sociology\, planning\, and labor studies. In addition to the topic of day labor\, he has published numerous articles on immigrant settlement\, labor market outcomes\, urban poverty and inequality\, including co-editing (with Lawrence Bobo\, Melvin Oliver\, and Jim Johnson) Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2000\, Immigration and Crime: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Violence (with Ramiro Martinez Jr.). He has also published in American Behavioral Scientist\, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, Annual Review of Sociology\, New England Journal of Public Policy\, Working USA: a Journal of Labor and Society\, International Journal of Comparative Sociology\, and Regional Studies. Dr. Valenzuela earned his B.A. from the University of California\, Berkeley and his M.C.P. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Venice Beach with his wife and three sons. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cecilia-menjivar-and-panel/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Amanda Glassman\, Center for Global Development
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Amanda Glassman is executive vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and also serves as chief executive officer of CGD Europe. Her research focuses on priority-setting\, resource allocation and value for money in global health\, as well as data for development. Prior to her current position\, she served as director for global health policy at the Center from 2010 to 2016\, and has more than 25 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. \nPrior to joining CGD\, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank\, where she led policy dialogue with member countries\, designed the results-based grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015 and served as team leader for conditional cash transfer programs such as Mexico’s Oportunidades and Colombia’s Familias en Accion. From 2005-2007\, Glassman was deputy director of the Global Health Financing Initiative at Brookings and carried out policy research on aid effectiveness and domestic financing issues in the health sector in low-income countries. Before joining the Brookings Institution\, Glassman designed\, supervised and evaluated health and social protection loans at the Inter-American Development Bank and worked as a Population Reference Bureau Fellow at the US Agency for International Development. \nGlassman holds a MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Brown University\, has published on a wide range of health and social protection finance and policy topics\, and is editor and coauthor of the books What’s In\, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage (Center for Global Development\, 2017)\, Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health (Center for Global Development 2016)\, From Few to Many: A Decade of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia (IDB and Brookings 2010)\, and The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank 2001). \nTitle: Breakthrough to Policy Use: Reinvigorating Impact Evaluation for Global Development \nDescription: Better use of evidence in policymaking could improve lives and save hundreds of millions of dollars in public and aid spending each year. There has been tremendous progress in harnessing better evidence to inform public policy decision making\, especially from impact evaluations of programs in low- and middle-income countries. Yet only a fraction of all development programs are evaluated\, and far too often\, policymakers lack the solid\, policy-relevant research they could use to make better decisions. Given the potential real-world benefits\, why have decision makers within governments\, aid agencies\, multilateral organizations\, and NGOs not yet fully harnessed the value of evidence—including from impact evaluations—for better public policies? Looking ahead\, how can the development community renew momentum and broaden bases of support for rigorous evaluations and the evidence agenda? And how can researchers foster stronger partnerships with policymakers and generate more timely and useful findings to inform policy decisions? \nIn response to these questions and building on progress to date\, CGD launched the Working Group on New Evidence Tools for Policy Impact from 2020 to 2022\, bringing together 40 policymakers and experts from 20 countries with collective experience at over 100 organizations to review progress\, identify challenges\, and propose recommendations to enhance the policy value and use of data and evidence for global development. The final report highlights how far the field has come in addressing persistent critiques about the scale\, generalizability\, and policy utility of impact evaluation methods. It also examines the importance shifting research agenda-setting power and resources to those who best specific policy contexts and decision making needs. This seminar will explore progress\, challenges\, and recommendations for better research funding and practice in detail\, including the application of the agenda to specific target audiences such as philanthropies.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/amanda-glassman-center-for-global-development/
LOCATION:Venue: Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Zack W. Almquist\, University of Washington (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Zack W. Almquist is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics\, and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. Before coming to UW in 2020\, Prof. Almquist held positions as a Research Scientist at Facebook\, Inc and as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Almquist is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Methodology’s Leo Goodman Award. He is also a recipient of the NSF’s CAREER Award and the ARO’s Young Investigator Program Award. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. His research centers on the development and application of mathematical\, computational and statistical methodology to problems and theory of social networks\, demography\, homelessness\, and environmental action and governance. \nA Qualitative and Quantitative PIT Count using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS): Understanding and Counting Unsheltered Homelessness in King County \nAbstract: Traditionally\, unsheltered Point in Time (PIT) Counts are the result of volunteers conducting an in-person head-count of individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night. This resource-intensive method is widely understood to be an undercount. It also fails to capture essential qualitative data about what people living unsheltered experience and need. \nThis past spring\, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (RHA)\, in coordination with Professor Zack W. Almquist (University of Washington) and Lived Experience Coalition (LEC)\, took a novel approach to the PIT. The RHA conducted the 2022 unsheltered PIT count as a combined qualitative interview process and quantitative survey over the course of a month. The respondent selection for both the qualitative and quantitative surveys followed a Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) protocol. RDS provides a sampling strategy for estimating size and percentages of hard-to-reach populations that lack an administrative sampling frame. \nDuring this seminar\, I will provide an overview of the RHA partnership effort\, and how we executed this novel approach to the PIT. I will review the history of RDS as a means of sampling vulnerable populations\, and I will cover the implementation of the sampling  and estimation strategies based on the RHA RDS sample. Finally\, I will review the demographics provided to HUD\, and what we learned from conducting the RDS sample for the PIT count\, and how it can and should affect future PIT counts going forwards. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/zack-w-almquist-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Series: The Stark Realities and Ethical Challenges of Transparent and Reproducible Population Research (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nCecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration\, gender\, family dynamics\, social networks\, religious institutions\, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of living in contexts of multisided violence on individuals\, especially women. Her work on immigration concerns mainly the United States\, where she focuses on Central American immigrants\, whereas her work on violence is centered on Latin America\, mostly Central America. Menjívar is interested in how state power manifests itself through legal regimes and formal institutions and bureaucracies to shape microprocesses in everyday life. \nRandall Kuhn  is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design\, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health\, Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health\, Kuhn leads a 35-year longitudinal study of the impact of health and development programs in Bangladesh. In the area of homelessness\, Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He co-authored recent reports on homelessness and the coronavirus outbreak for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and on health and homelessness in Los Angeles. \nFelipe Goncalves is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research applies tools from labor and public economics to understand issues in policing\, crime\, and education. He received a BA in economics-mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. Prior to joining UCLA\, he worked at the New York Crime Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-2/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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