Immigration Initiative at Harvard Seminar
Semester: Fall 2025 & Spring 2026
The Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH) fosters a community of scholars engaged in the exchange of research, ideas, and practices related to serving immigrant origin children, adolescents, and young adults. In this advanced seminar, doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows from within HGSE, FAS, and across Harvard will present ongoing works-in-progress to receive mentoring and professional development support as they develop their ideas and scholarship. In addition, participants in this year-long seminar will hear from national and international guest speakers presenting their work around topics related to research, policy, and practice particularly focused on immigrant origin children and youth.
This seminar will be held jointly between the IIH community and the Migration & Immigrant Incorporation Workshop in FAS. Members of the Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation workshop share a common interest in international migration and the incorporation of immigrants into host societies including questions of race and the integration of the second generation (the children of immigrants). While the majority of participants focus on the United States, the workshop includes and is open to researchers studying other immigrant-receiving countries. The primary purpose of the workshop is to circulate works-in-progress to elicit feedback and suggestions for improving scholarly work such as dissertation chapters or proposals, journal article submissions, interview schedules, and conference papers.
***This is a Year Long course, students need to take part A and B in order to earn 2 credits, please note that part A carries 0 credits and part B carries 2 credits***
