Snf agora institute

How many candidates with "invisible identities" use their identities in campaigns? Are these strategies effective amongst racial in-group and out-group voters in America? As part of SNF Agora's Academy Workshop series, Leann Mclaren will explore the case of Black immigrant politicians.

Global cities are often assessed using universalizing economic criteria, overlooking how local characteristics shape high-skill migration. As part of SNF Agora's Academy Workshop series, post-doctoral fellow Mustafa Yavas will examine the case of Dubai via a survey of 571 college-educated migrants from South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

In this talk, Cornell professor Neil Lewis, Jr. will share recent findings from his program of research that has been using the United States as a context to examine how patterns of segregation and other forms of social stratification seep into the mind and affect how people perceive and make meaning of the world around them.