April 16, 2013 | News | Suessmilch Lecture

Why people migrate

On April 19, Filiz Garip from Harvard University will give a talk at the MPIDR. She will focus on the question, which mechanisms are underlying migration from Mexico to the US.

Vita
Filiz Garip is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology, and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and the mechanisms leading to higher or lower social and economic inequality.

Her work has been published in Population and Development Review, Demography, Social Forces, and the American Journal of Sociology. She is currently working on a book, that characterizes the diversity of the Mexican migrant population in the United States.

Garip received her Ph.D. in Sociology and an M.S.E in Operations Research & Financial Engineering, both from Princeton University. She holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Time and Venue
Friday, April, 19, 2013, 11 a.m. In the Institute´s Auditorium