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Monday, November 30

Summer Internship Grant Symposium

5:00-6:30 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

Spend the summer in Latin America as a health advocate or microfinance analyst, corporate trainee or nonprofit organizer, teacher or educational advisor. The Center for Latin American Studies offers grants of up to $3000 each for undergraduates to complete summer internships in Latin America in any field of their choice. The possibilities are endless! The winners of the most recent competition will present on their internships and take questions about their experiences and the grant application process.

Presentations by the recipients of the 2009 CLAS Summer Internship Grants:

Leah Karlins (Monica Miller Walsh Grant)
Microfinanzas PRISMA (Lima, Peru)

Níkolas Iubel (Pessoa-Trejos Grant)
ECE UNIFAE/EducationUSA (Curitiba, Brazil)

Ardalan Tajalli (Monica Miller Walsh Grant)
Acción Emprendedora (Chile)

Jessica Hinojosa (Monica Miller Walsh Grant)
Fauna Forever Tambopata (Madre de Dios rainforest, Peru)

Quynh Nguyen (Monica Miller Walsh Grant)
Roatan Volunteer Pediatric Clinic (Roatan, Honduras)

Please see the Undergraduate Summer Internship Grants page for information about the Monica Miller Walsh and Pessoa-Trejos grants.

Tuesday, December 1

Mike Albertus, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Stanford

12:15-1:05 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

In 2005, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez began to apply the Law of Land and Agrarian Development to private property, under which roughly 1.7 million hectares of private land have since been targeted for redistribution and over 100,000 people have petitioned for land
grants. Yet the lack of a complete property registry and ambiguity in key provisions of the Land Law have led to allegations of political bias in the administration of the land reform program. Who applies for land grants, and whose applications are successful? I use data from land grant applicants and voting records to investigate the distribution of land in the period prior to the 2009 constitutional referendum.

Michael Albertus is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Stanford. For his dissertation, which focuses on the conditions under which governments implement equality-enhancing reforms, he has conducted fieldwork in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. He holds a B.S. and B.S.E. from the University of Michigan.

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch. In keeping with the Bolivar House cafecito tradition, hot coffee is provided beginning at 11:45 am. Lecture/q&a runs from 12:15-1:05 pm.

Thursday, December 3

Intermarriage Among Immigrants in Spain

María Sánchez-Domínguez, Universidad Complutense (Madrid)

In this paper we study the marriage patterns of immigrants to Spain from Morocco, Romania, Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia as well as those from other developing countries. Data from the recent National Immigrant Survey of Spain will be used for this study that will focus especially on intermarriage patterns with natives of Spain. The question of ‘Who marries whom?’ has been the central focus of many of the studies of intermarriage carried out in the USA since the 1970s. Intermarriage is often considered an excellent indicator of immigrant assimilation in host societies. In our paper, we will not only address this theme, but will also look at intermarriage as a migration strategy for certain persons. Our analysis of intermarriage from this dual perspective of assimilation and immigration strategy will incorporate a whole host of variables such as sex, education, citizenship, year of arrival, the time elapsed between migration and marriage, as well as the group of origin in both bivariate and multivariate approaches. The results yield a fascinating and nuanced portrayal of a practice whose prevalence is often quite high in some groups and rather low in others.

María Sánchez-Domínguez is a PhD Student at University Complutense in Madrid, Spain, within the Department of Human Ecology and Population. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at University of California-Berkeley in the Department of Demography with Professor Ronald Lee. Her research is about marriage patterns and family characteristics of Latin American immigrants in Spain, the “Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes” (National Immigrants Survey) being the main source of data. This survey collects information from a total of 15,465 immigrants, who are older than 16 and have been living in Spain for at least a year (or intend to do so). The interest of this survey relies on its wide coverage of the socio-demographic features of the immigrants who currently live in Spain.

12:00-1:00 pm
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row

You are invited to bring your own "brown bag" lunch.