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Assessing the Contribution of Foreign Born Workers to the U.S. Economy" with James Witte, George Mason University

Nov 19, 2012

This talk will introduce the newly created Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) at George Mason University.

The mission of the IIR is to refocus the immigration conversation among academic, policy-makers and the public by producing and disseminating unbiased and objective, interdisciplinary academic research related to immigrants and immigration to the United States. The talk will review initial findings summarizing the geographic dispersion and occupational concentration of immigrants based on U.S. Census data. Special attention will be paid to U.S. workers born in Turkey and other countries with large Turkic populations.

James Witte is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University. Witte, who earned his PhD from Harvard in 1991, has been a professor at Clemson University and Northwestern University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center and a lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Witte's ongoing research focuses on ways to use the world wide web to collect survey data, the similarities and differences between online and off-line societies and the economic contributions of U.S. immigrants.