Workshop: Building Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Immigrants, Immigration, and Border Enforcement

本次研讨会将从多学科的角度探讨与移民和移民政策执法有关的问题。它试图调查与边境执法政策相关的问题，以及与更广泛的社会“生活质量”问题的影响有关的更广泛的问题。讲习班还将举行一次圆桌会议，评估联邦和国家一级执法政策可能发生的变化。与会者包括政治学家、社会学家、经济学家、心理学家、法律专家和政策界的代表。研讨会将原本可能不会合作的研究人员聚集在一起。会议的成果很可能促进重要的跨学科研究，这将使决策者和实践者感兴趣。一些学科调查与移民和边境执法有关的问题。然而，这些研究人员经常与他们所在领域的其他人交流，从而降低了他们所做工作的影响。本次会议旨在将来自不同领域的学者——政治学、社会学、经济学、法学、心理学——聚集在一起，就移民和边境执法相关问题进行合作研究。它力求解决这些政策如何影响特定群体，以及它们如何更普遍地影响社会中重要的生活质量指标。除了包括来自不同学科的学者外，该项目还包括代表重要政策实践者和记者的参与者。该项目承诺产生一个更完整的研究议程，并有能力将这些发现分发给学术和政策团体。

This workshop will address issues related to immigration and immigration policy enforcement from a multidisciplinary approach. It seeks to investigate questions related to the effects associated with border enforcement policies, along with broader questions related to the effect on 'quality of life' issues in society more broadly. The workshop will also feature a roundtable to assess possible changes in enforcement policy at both the federal and national level. The participants include political scientists, sociologists, economists, psychologists, law, and representatives from the policy community. The workshop brings together researchers who otherwise might not collaborate. The output of the conference is likely to foster important interdisciplinary research that would be of interest to policy makers and practitioners.A number of disciplines investigate questions related to immigration and border enforcement. Too often, however, these researchers communicate to others in their field, reducing the impact of the work they do. This conference seeks to bring scholars together from a variety of fields -- political science, sociology, economics, law, psychology -- to generate collaborative research on matters related to immigration and border enforcement. It seeks to address how these policies have affected particular groups, but also how they influence important quality-of-life indicators in society more generally. In addition to including scholars from a diverse set of disciplines, the program includes participants representing important policy practitioners and journalists. The project promises to generate a more well-integrated research agenda, as well as have the capacity to distribute those findings to scholarly and policy communities alike.