MIT Working Group on Migration and Development

List of Participants

Meetings will begin at 4:30pm in E53-470 (Myron Weiner Small Conference Room, inside the Political Science Headquarters)

Date	Presenter	Institutional Affiliation	Purpose of Session	Title of Presentation
Tuesday, March 11	Neil G. Ruiz	Ph.D. Student, MIT Political Science	Working Group Overview/Framework and Discussion	"Dealing with the Four R's of Emigration: Remittances, Recruitment, Returns, and Representation"
Tuesday, March 18	Shinu Singh	Masters Candidate, MIT Urban Studies and Planning	Presentation of Working Draft of Masters Thesis	"The Economic Impact of Return Migration of Highly Skilled I.T. Professionals from the U.S. to India"
Wednesday, April 9	Mihir Desai	Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School	Speaker Presentation of Working Papers	"Fiscal Consequences and Responses to High-Skilled Emigration" Paper 1, Paper 2, Op-Ed Piece
Tuesday, April 22	Jorge A. Capetillo	Research Associate, Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy	Presentation of Article	"The Vote on Bilingual Education and its Impact on Latino Identity Politics in Massachusetts"

The group is sponsored by MIT Professors Michael J. Piore and Richard Locke and
is funded by the MIT Center for International Studies.

If you want to join the group, e-mail one of the co-directors: Neil Ruiz or Natasha Iskander