Lee to serve as chair-elect of ASA Section on International Migration
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Lee to serve as chair-elect of ASA Section on International Migration
- June 15, 2015
- One-year term begins in August
Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, has been selected as chair-elect of the American
Sociological Association Section on International Migration. One of 52 special interest
groups within the association, the section aims to stimulate, promote, and reward
the development of original theory and research on international migration. Its researchers
contribute to scholarly collaboration and to a comprehensive understanding of the
causes and consequences of international migration, including the incorporation of
immigrants in receiving societies – an area of study in which Lee specializes. During
Lee’s term, she aims to make scholarly research in the field of international migration
more accessible to the public audience by connecting it to pressing policy debates.
She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. She is
author of the newly released The Asian American Achievement Paradox, in which she and co-author Min Zhou, UCLA, debunk the claim that Asian American
educational achievement can be reduced to the assumed superior values and traits of
Asian culture. They show how historical, cultural, and institutional processes work
together to confer advantages to the children of Asian immigrants, and highlight how
“positive stereotyping” has both helped and hurt Asian Americans (read more here).
Lee’s one-year term begins in August after which she will serve one year as chair
of the section. In total, ASA section membership includes more than 21,000 university
faculty, researchers, students, practitioners and government/non-profit/business persons.
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