Factors Affecting Marriage and Family Formation for Solo Migrating Sub-Saharan Africa Migrants

Join Dr. Tristan Ivory for this discussion with Q&A moderated by Dr. Stephen Graves.

Tristan Ivory is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Comparative Labor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He received his PhD in 2015 from the Department of Sociology at Stanford University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University and was an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Missouri from 2017 to 2019. Tristan's research uses ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, contemporary news accounts, and archival data to examine the resources and strategies middle-class Sub-Saharan Africans use while attempting to maximize social and economic outcomes at home and abroad. Tristan is currently revising articles from previous research in Japan while writing and conducting new research on foreign-born women's labor force participation in the United States, Japan, and Sweden and student mobility in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

Itinerary:

INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER

By:  Dr. Ibitola Pearce, Professor Emeritus for the Department of Sociology and the Department of Black Studies

MODERATOR FOR THE PROGRAM

Dr. Stephan Graves, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Black Studies

PRESENTATION

By:  Dr. Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor for the Department of International and Comparative Labor in the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University

INSPIRATIONAL REMARKS

By:  Dr. Charles Sampson, Professor Emeritus for the Department of Black Studies and the Truman School of Public Affairs

QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

All questions submitted for the event will be reviewed and asked by the moderator for the event, Dr. Stephan Graves